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...Hamilton and Scott de Marchi have a lot in common. They are both professors at Duke University, they are roughly the same age, and they have the same number of children. And yet their consumption preferences are polar opposites. So the two professors developed a model to explain why seemingly similar people make vastly different decisions. Their book, You Are What You Choose, explores how certain attributes - such as a willingness to take risks, or worrying about what others think - affect our choices. De Marchi and Hamilton talked to TIME about their model, what it can predict and why anyone...
6.FM: Your father, actor Tom Wopat, played “Luke” Duke on the 80s hit series, “Dukes of Hazzard.” Did you ever think about acting? Would your dad have been upset if you wore a pair of Daisy Dukes? LEG: Yeah, about that. You know I think I was a little over-exposed to acting. My dad was an actor and my mom was a studio teacher so she taught all the kid actors. So, growing up, most of my best friends were actors so I always thought...
...patch of water six days a week, waiting for a boat to arrive and uncoil a long, plastic tube into the water. As sardines and mackerel are pumped into the deep, the water begins to churn. Hundreds of bluefin tuna, circling in vast cages beneath the water's surface, duke it out for their daily meal. This is a tuna ranch, a method that started in the Mediterranean in 1996 and now dominates the Atlantic bluefin industry. Today there are 70 registered ranches in the Mediterranean alone (and more in Mexico, Japan and Australia), and the majority of the region...
Meanwhile, Ono Horn and other former interns from Princeton and Duke are busy spreading the word about LearnVest to students preparing to enter the workforce...
...known Tommy since he played at Duke, and then our friendship was even more cemented. He recruited my son Chris to play at Duke,” Collins said. “I think Tommy embodies all the wonderful things I think teachers and coaches should have...