Best Christmas Movie Ever
Forget Its A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and the Muppet Christmas Carol – this is by far the best Christmas movie ever…
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Science Says Being Grateful is Good for You
With Thanksgiving left in the dust of November, we’re hurtling now down the holiday luge towards New Year’s, which can be a mentally exhausting time of year for many. Fortunately, finding respite is as easy as giving thanks for the year gone by. While gratefulness is innately human, it’s been tossed aside as an unworthy…
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Those Damned Kiwi’s
Not only are they more socially progressive they also seem nicer.
Why You Can’t Help But Act Your Age
In 1979, psychologist Ellen Langer and her students carefully refurbished an old monastery in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to resemble a place that would have existed two decades earlier. They invited a group of elderly men in their late 70s and early 80s to spend a week with them and live as they did in 1959,…
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Inside a Moneymaking Machine Like No Other
That’s because the area’s wealthiest residents, scientists all, work for the quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, based in nearby East Setauket. They are the creators and overseers of the Medallion Fund—perhaps the world’s greatest moneymaking machine. Medallion is open only to Renaissance’s roughly 300 employees, about 90 of whom are Ph.D.s, as well as a…
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Ten Reasons the 2017 BMW M3 Is as Good as Ever
And two why its not. Its got four doors and only six cylinders…. BMW introduced its legendary M3 in 1986. The $64,000 four-door basically created the then-novel “sport sedan” segment. In the years since, it has maintained its dominance with supreme handling, punch-perfect power, and businesslike good looks—and has rightfully been embraced by wealthy professionals as the best…
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