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Powell, meanwhile, said that the day after sending out his message, he received a concerned e-mail from an HCL supervisor, who worried that the e-mail might skew results and stuff the ballot...
...selling those t-shirts for Arnold now? God. They copy everything. Those are so old they were being sold in Minnesota in 1998. It’s irrelevant. Those t-shirts are ridiculous to begin with. When you’re 50 you grow out of that macho stuff. However I would say this—I’m younger and better trained. Arnold was just a body builder. So you be the judge...
...real question here is a matter of proportion, the tendency of lurid cultural issues to crowd out the more important stuff. Even Iraq has settled into the dim middle distance. Few images from the war are as startling--as "spontaneous"--as Justin Timberlake's ripping Janet Jackson's bodice. The violence of combat is sanitized into banality by squeamish editors. And there are no compelling images to convey the absence of weapons of mass destruction or how difficult it will be for an American Secretary of State to bring a credible argument for war to the United Nations anytime soon...
...researchers are also finding that money makes us nutty. We should treat money as a mere exchange mechanism that allows us to get stuff. That distinction is lost on our brains. The dopamine release that makes a juicy hamburger so satisfying works the same magic even if we simply find the money to buy the burger...
Glimcher says while he can't peer inside a human's brain as he can a monkey's, "stuff like that is rapidly becoming possible." Certainly we'd torture ourselves much less over a potential impulse buy if we could just know in advance whether we were going to like...