Word: loewenstein
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...field of behavioral economics (in particular two amazing researchers: George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec) has rather convincingly shown that money given in different forms can have fundamentally different effects. For example, imagine that you have just finished a delicious dinner for two and it is time to pay the $100 bill. You open your wallet and are faced with your options: cash or credit? The reality is that no matter which option you choose, you will pay the same amount. But paying with a credit card feels very different than paying with cash—it is somewhat less painful...
Prominent Borges collectors Thomas F. Staley of the University of Texas at Austin and Jared Loewenstein of the University of Virginia (UVA) expressed sadness at the loss of the manuscripts yesterday...
...hopeful that whoever took them for whatever reason will find a way to get them back where they belong, in hands were they can be protected and studied by scholars,” said Loewenstein, the founding curator of the massive Borges collection...
...developed when he met with Harvard students in October at the Darfur Fast day in Boston.At the conference, students heard from experts about the history of Darfur and its current situation.On Friday night, panelists described the pattern of rape and murder in the western region of Sudan. Andrew B. Loewenstein, a human rights lawyer commissioned by the U.S. State Department to investigate the genocide in Darfur, talked about his interviews with refugees in Eastern Chad.He said he heard stories of five-year-old African boys being “slaughtered like animals” or thrown into burning tents...
...band hit its stride plucking from its two biggest albums, Bakesale and Harmacy. Barlow and Loewenstein, without a new album to cull from, gleefully tossed out crowd-pleasers like “On Fire,” “Rebound,” and “Skull” without any sign that playing these compromised some sense of artistic integrity. Simply, they entertained, and seemed to have a great time doing it. By the time Loewenstein started reminiscing about filming the video for “Ocean” there...