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...doing their IPO roadshow. They refused to put up their slide show because they were concerned that venture capitalists would be in the room and take their business plan and shop it. That's a great example of a company that doesn't have a whole lot of proprietary content. If everything about the company can be put into a bunch of slides, then there's not much there...
...meantime, Sutter must endure and write up this Talcott festival for his Internet employer of the moment: "A bloodless edit will follow...and one day an electronic burp with his byline will float up into the Web morass, a little bubble of content he will never...
...another hunch turned out to be far more productive. When Snowdon and Kemper first read the sisters' autobiographies in the early 1990s, they noted that the writings differed not just in the density of ideas they contained but also in their emotional content. "At the time," he says, "we saw that idea density was much more related to later cognitive ability. But we also knew that there was something interesting going on with emotions." Studies by other scientists had shown that anger and depression can play a role in heart disease, so the team decided to take another look...
This time they searched for words suggesting positive emotions (such as happiness, love, hope, gratitude and contentment), as well as negative ones (sadness, fear, confusion and shame). Snowdon found that the sisters expressing negative emotions did not live as long as the sisters conveying more positive ones. He has already begun another analysis, comparing the emotional content of the nuns' early autobiographies with the ones they penned in late life, as part of the Nun Study. As mental abilities decline, his preliminary review has found, the expression of positive emotions also drops. While he suspects the whittling away of positive...