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...Emerson, Suffolk, Wellesley, Babson, Amherst, Brandeis, Northeastern, UMass-Boston, Berklee, Simmons, Bunker Hill Community College, and Lesley. Unfortunately, despite the abundance of Bunsen burners at neighboring colleges and local high schools, some of which are only a minute’s walk from Harvard, we have ruled out that option as a logistical unreality. We also decided against considering any equipment used for heating, sterilization, and combustion other than Bunsen burners...
...prisoner’s dilemma is a classic game theory experiment in which two players choose whether to cooperate or compete against each other. Cooperation is mutually beneficial, and in the modified version, players also have the option to punish their partners while incurring a cost to themselves...
While many researchers have proposed that punishing selfishness forces people to cooperate, Nowak’s study suggests otherwise: the most successful players used the punish option the least, indicating that punishment may not be the driving force behind the development of cooperative societies...
...often match contributions--free money, as it were. As a result of Thaler's work, many firms have switched to automatic enrollment. In the language of Nudge, the plans have moved from "opt in" to "opt out." That turns people's inertia-like tendency to stick with the default option--whether or not it's a good one--into an advantage...
...just concerned with food, but Chinese-American experiences in general. With the perspective of an American-born-Chinese, she addresses with shrewdness and insight the historical and social dynamics of the Chinese in America. One chapter is devoted entirely to a Chinese family Lee knew, whose only viable professional option was the 24-hour, 364-day per year Chinese restaurant business, the strain of which leads to the family almost disintegrating. Another chapter, with a backbone of interview comments, recounts the story of Michael, an illegal Fujianese immigrant who risked his life to travel to the United States to support...