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...Gilbert suggests his research could have some revolutionary implications for the way people behave. For one thing, the next time you sit down at a new restaurant, you might be better off abandoning the menu and instead asking a fellow diner, "What's good here?" Or you might even consider asking friends, family or the village elders whether your partner is marriage material or not. "Most Westeners would reject the notion outright that someone else would pick your marital partner more accurately than you can. It's not clear to me that's true," Gilbert says, conceding that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Predict What You'll Like? Ask a Stranger | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...jetpack, you'd be like, "I have the sh----est jetpack. I can't believe I got this jetpack. Who's your service provider? Did they make the new one? Hate this thing, it sucks." Then we'd all sit there and talk about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Louis C.K. | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...organized sports," says Jasper Shealy, a professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a sports-injury expert who has published more than 100 papers on the subject, "the practice had been for players with a head injury to sit on the bench for a little while and, once they felt better, to go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could a Helmet Have Saved Natasha Richardson? | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...about dating, dropping the H-bomb, and picking up the phone for Mom mid-makeout. 1. Fifteen Minutes: What compelled you to write your books and articles about dating?Alex Benzer: I was a pre-med tutor at Cabot House a few years ago, and I’d sit down with the students, have dinner with them, and one of the favorite topics of conversation was dating, and how little of it happens on the Harvard campus. I had gone and figured out some things and taken some classes and gathered some resources, so I thought...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Alex Benzer ’93 | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...know for a fact that both the ‘III’ at the end of his name and his Prada loafers are completely bootleg,” sneered the first girl.Illegitimately outfitted or not, it was undeniable that Carmichaels had made himself just tolerable enough to sit on the periphery of first-year aristocracy. He hoped tomorrow would move him closer to his ultimate goal. He would be practically legally bound to bunk with these Eton elites and Cantabrigian Brahmins he’d studied so well. “Nah she?...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bystander: Climbing the Housing Ladder | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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