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Getting paid to travel to some of the world’s most remote places to entertain your palate with mouth-watering authentic dishes sounds like “a fantasy profession” that’s just too good to be true. Except in the case of the globetrotting food connoisseur Anthony Bourdain, whose life for the past 15 years stands in sharp contrast to […]
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If you want to improve education, figure out what actually works
If you want to improve education, figure out what actually works, says researcher John Hattie. In 2015, Hattie published a paper entitled “What Doesn’t Work in Education: The Politics of Distraction,” in which he picked apart some common (but ineffective) approaches to improving education, which he says “distract from other, potentially better, solutions.” Among them: […]
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Moroccan artist Joual invokes the raw, the red, and the repulsive in her art
Soukaina Joual often uses meat as a medium for her art. Joual is not afraid of blood, and doesn’t understand why anyone else would be, either, Zoë Hu writes in contemporary Middle Eastern arts and culture magazine Reorient. Flesh and blood lend much inspiration to Joual, the 26 year-old Moroccan artist whose work is described […]
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Economic theories can help us become more productive in our daily lives
How many of us lie awake in bed at night feeling guilty about all the unchecked items on our to-do lists and beating ourselves up for not being productive enough? In her latest piece for Quartz, Sarah Todd argues that it’s not an issue of productivity, but rather one of unrealistic expectations. The solution, as […]
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Why hasn’t evolution wiped out our susceptibility to depression?
Why hasn’t evolution wiped out our susceptibility to depression? Depression is a highly pervasive condition, with some researchers estimating that 30-50% of people have experienced a major depressive episode at some point throughout their lives. Evolutionary psychologists seem to believe that not only is our susceptibility to depression not an evolutionary glitch, it could even […]
Posted inTHE WEEK’S MOST-CLICKED STORIES
The most-clicked stories in Enterprise in the past week were: Egypt gets a lot of love on V-day. (Enterprise) ‘100% Egyptian Cotton’ to be featured in the International Fashion Showcase 2017 Presented by Mercedes-Benz (News release, pdf) Egyptian American Enterprise Fund’s annual letter for 2017 (EAEF, pdf) Watching a frozen engine warm up using a […]
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Beyond the Rubicon: Capital Market Intaxication
Capital Market Intaxication The taxman is knocking on the door yet again, so whether you like it or not, you best be ready for a Tobin Tax. For the uninitiated, a Tobin tax, a phrase first coined by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin in the 1970s, is a tax levied on transactions in connection with […]
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You’re late (again) because of who you are as a person
Rejoice, all ye who are always running late: Psychologists are defending your honor and letting us all know that your lack of punctuality is not a sign that you’re rude, disorganized, or inconsiderate — your mind might just be malfunctioning. Sure, Cairo traffic throws us all curveballs that guarantee we’ll be late to the most […]
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