Word: legacyism
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Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson is the man who found the woman that shook up our family tree. In 1974, Johanson discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia that would forever change our understanding of human origins. Dubbed Australopithecus afarensis, she became known to the...
But the talented athlete doesn’t want her accomplishments on the track to be her only legacy.
On reading Warren Buffett's much-anticipated letter to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders, one can't avoid being struck by his faith in the ability of the American people to overcome adversity and to move the nation forward. This is a legacy that stretches from the Revolution to Lewis and...
Faced with giving up benefits, the UAW will conciliate but not placate management, which strikes some Americans as uncooperative. But its so-called legacy costs, won fairly at the bargaining table, have big emotional value for the UAW. It's what behavioral economists call the endowment effect, says Lipsky: the...
So how can you honor Darwin’s legacy without attracting the whiff of religious fanaticism? Point out simple inconsistencies in dinner-table debate. (Individuals don’t evolve, populations do.) Remind others that evolution is overwhelmingly uncontroversial among scientists. But, for crying out loud, don�...