Both my friend and I brought a kindle to our much-needed summer vacation on a small Greek island. Usually, I prefer books, but I wanted to test the long-forgotten, dusty kindle that my parents gifted me some years ago. After reading the first three Harry Potter books again, I wondered: Should I continue reading on […]
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Factfulness – Frank The Chimpanzee Let’s play a little game. It’s you and I, the human team, against Frank. Frank is a chimpanzee and Frank can’t possibly know what 7 + 28 is, right? I am confident that you and I would know that 35 is the answer. Frank might not be a stupid chimpanzee,
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Being a Freakonomic – Exploring Abortion and Crime in the US In 1989 US crime was at its peak. Violent crime rates rose by 80% in the 15 previous years. But the 1990s saw a sudden steep drop in crimes rates. Take a look at the US Homicide Rate below: One can see the drop
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Just do it: The making of Nike and the People behind it Mexico City was the host of the 1968 summer Olympics. Nike, then known as Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS), was the US distributor of Onitsuka Tiger. Onitsuka and BRS together developed a new type of long-distance running shoe for the summer Olympics. It had
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