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NYC museum shows how American Jews worked to bring refugees from Nazi Europe to US

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

NEW YORK, N.Y. - An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era. The exhibition, "Against All Odds: ...
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Dr. Jim Taylor: Cognitive Biases are Bad for Business

Source: The Huffington Post

The conventional wisdom in classical economics is that we humans are "rational actors" who, by our nature, make decisions and behave in ways that maximize advantage and utility and minimize risk and costs. This theory has driven economic policy for g ...
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Deepak Chopra: Can Reality Set Us Free? The Puzzle of Complementarity (Part 3)

Source: The Huffington Post

By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, ...
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3 Lessons on Overcoming Conflicts

Source: Think Simple Now

We'd love to hear them! Please share: “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein Conflict has always been something that my physical body reacts to viscerally, gnawing at my stomach, growing up into my he ...
Full article at: Think Simple Now  More like this  5 days ago, 7:02pm CDT

Nationalism won't help Scotland

Source: Morning Star Online

The danger of the campaign for Scottish independence becoming associated with anti-English racism is increasingly apparent. On two separate occasions in a matter of months - the first involving Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and th ...
Full article at: Morning Star Online  More like this  5 days ago, 3:11pm CDT

Readmissions Often Aren't Culpable Acts

Source: Wall Street Journal

Regarding the letters of May 13 on penalties for hospital readmissions: One reason for readmissions to hospitals is premature discharge. Because of reduced reimbursement by both government and private pay ...
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The Threat to STEM from HEFCE’s Funding Policies

Source: In the Dark

In my job here as Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at the University of Sussex, I’ve been been spending a lot of time recently on trying to understand the way the School’s budget works, sorting ...
Full article at: In the Dark  More like this  5 days ago, 9:46am CDT

Art beat: Musician, teacher Rubel heads for Nashville

Source: The News-Gazette

While most people his age are settling down or retiring, Mark Rubel's making a big change. The 55-year-old musician, recording engineer, teacher and downtown Champaign fixture will move this summer to Nashville, Tenn. There he will be an instructor a ...
Full article at: The News-Gazette  More like this  5 days ago, 8:49am CDT

Bohr and the breakaway from classical mechanics

Source: The Hindu

One hundred years ago on this day, Niels Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons go around a nucleus at the centre like planets in the Solar System. The model and its implications brought a lot ...
Full article at: The Hindu  More like this  5 days ago, 8:09am CDT

Immigrant problem? We should be flattered they choose the UK

Source: The Jewish Chronicle

Children’s author Judith Kerr fled to Britain as a refugee from the Nazis The British should be flattered that so many refugees and immigrants want to settle in the UK. That is the view of one of the country’s best-lo ...
Full article at: The Jewish Chronicle  More like this  6 days ago, 3:35am CDT



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