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We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had once told me, then laughed. 'Except for us. One a...more

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He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.

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After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely to happen. The sheer ...more

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Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman...more

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Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority....more