Red and Blue America- time to wave the white flag?
America has sorted into two opposing camps, both of which are mad because they see themselves losing ground. How can both sides be...
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Dan Connors
- Jun 12, 2021
- 4 min
The magic of happy endings
We are all suckers for a happy ending. There may not be many in real life, but seeing them play out on the big or small screens can be...
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Dan Connors
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
Is the system rigged for the richest 1%? This new report shows just how bad it's gotten.
The rich have always lived by a different set of rules as the rest of us, but what are they up to these days? They have more motive and...
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Dan Connors
- Jun 3, 2021
- 4 min
Are we capable of making our own choices anymore?
Through most of recorded history, humans have stumbled along with choices that were ill-informed, random, faulty, and occasionally...
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Dan Connors
- May 24, 2021
- 5 min
We are all freeloaders
Americans these days are very concerned about freeloaders. Freeloaders, also known as "free riders" in economic parlance, enjoy the...
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Dan Connors
- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
Refilling the pool- how immigration and diversity enriches us all.
The St. Louis region is stagnating, as the 2020 census will soon reveal. Much of the problem starts at the core- the city of St. Louis. ...
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Dan Connors
- Apr 20, 2021
- 4 min
What have we learned from Covid-19?
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Fareed Zakaria 2020 The Covid-19 epidemic may well turn out to be a transformational event for...
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Dan Connors
- Apr 17, 2021
- 7 min
Think you know it all, eh? Think again bucko!
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Adam Grant 2021 How do we know what we know? Can we be...
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Dan Connors
- Apr 14, 2021
- 4 min
White men- Heroes or entitled mediocrities?
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Ijeoma Oluo 2020 We like to think that in some important way that the world...
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Dan Connors
- Apr 7, 2021
- 3 min
Here's how to stick it to Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos- the richest man in the world is at $188.6 Billion and counting. He makes approximately $321 million per day and rules an...
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Dan Connors
- Mar 16, 2021
- 4 min
The multiplier effect- how one check can help many people.
"Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."...
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Dan Connors
- Feb 6, 2021
- 6 min
Surviving Death
Death. We all avoid thinking about it or talking about it because it's unknown and scary. But there's something about winter that makes...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 31, 2021
- 5 min
Post Corona- How will our world change?
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Scott Galloway 2020 Our world has been changing rapidly for decades...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 30, 2021
- 5 min
Why we need consequences for being wrogn
Was a secret cabal of Satan-worshiping, cannibalistic pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring about to be exposed and...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 7, 2021
- 7 min
The World Happiness Report and the secret sauce of Scandinavia
Imagine a poll of every country in the entire world where someone goes to random citizens and asks them to rate their happiness on a...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 2, 2021
- 4 min
An Outsiders Guide to Humans- how an autistic person makes sense of the rest of us
An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are Camilla Pang 2020 Camilla Pang was diagnosed...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 31, 2020
- 5 min
College- good investment or money down the toilet?
We are throwing more and more money and bright young minds into the confusing cesspool that is today's higher education system, and what...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 23, 2020
- 4 min
Normalcy Bias- the Pandemic's biggest killer
When the Titanic hit an iceberg and started sinking, the people aboard were shocked. Most of them were in denial that this grand ship,...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 10, 2020
- 12 min
Who are the suckers who fall for self-deceptions? We are. Cognitive biases part 4
Does the truth matter? Which is better- an ugly truth or a pretty lie? Sometimes it's better for everybody if the truth is ugly enough...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 2, 2020
- 11 min
Why are we lying to ourselves? Cognitive biases part 3
"Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be...
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