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...very entertaining. It?s not a history lesson. You don?t feel like you?re being fed spinach. I?m a fan of not making movies that taste like spinach. I think we?ll see when it opens, but I think that people are looking to have a little fun with a little bit of education to it. Not that I think this is bad education. I think this is a great primer. It?s a great way to open a door to a much larger conversation...
Gilbert presents three main explanations for errors in affective forecasting. First, the human imagination works too well, prompting people to adjust their images of the future, fabricating some details while removing others. This results in overly optimistic predictions: our birthdays, for example, are never as fun as our imagination predicts or our memory recalls...
...actually go—and not just because the dining halls close tomorrow after lunch. I’m looking forward to Yardfest, not to take notes, but to join thousands of Harvard students and form like Voltron in front of Memorial Church for an un-ironic, actually fun musical experience. Tomorrow, I’m going to hear one of my favorite groups for the first time through loudspeakers instead of my headphones, enjoying music in a democratic sense, unlike my sophomore-year forays in metaphorical-alias-related snobbery. In short, I am pumped...
...students from Elim Christian College in Auckland, New Zealand assembled on Sunday morning. Their school-holiday excursion entailed a five-hour bus ride to an outdoor center in the Central North Island, where they were to spend five days bonding with one another, developing their leadership skills and having fun...
...frequent cavil against Brown is that he is not. Brown often vacations in the U.S., but one suspects that it is not the fun and froth of American culture that draws him there so much as earnest policy discussions during summer conferences at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. A colleague says Brown has a huge appetite for American history and politics, routinely stocking up in bookstores on Washington's Dupont Circle. (Though a man of the left, Brown has broad tastes: a bathroom in his house contains a well-thumbed copy of Moral Judgment, by James Q. Wilson, a favorite...