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A Waiting Game Gone Wrong
Long-distance online dating can be rough—just ask Alexander Pieter Cirk, who lives in Holland but had fallen for a Chinese woman he'd met online. ...
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'Waiting Expert' Shares What Makes Waiting Difficult
In a New York Times article, journalist Alex Stone tells the story of how executives at a Houston airport faced and then solved a cascade of passenger ...
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How Long Can We Endure in a Crisis?
How much can an adult endure? If you're ever stranded in the wilderness, are caught in a burning building, or find that your scuba tank has run out ...
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Architect Humble About His Unfinished Work
In 1882 the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi started work on his masterpiece, The El Templo de la Sagrada Familia (or The Church of the Holy Family), ...
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Study of How Long We'll Wait
When Timex (the watch company) asked people how long they would wait before taking action in a wide variety of situations, researchers discovered that ...
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The World's Hardest Race
None of the 40 runners who attempted to finish the 100-mile Barkley Marathons in the mountains of eastern Tennessee completed the race, the first time ...
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Thrill-Seeking Activities Require Tedium
You might assume that extreme activities—like traveling through space or climbing Mount Everest—provide constant excitement. Not exactly. ...
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Our Instant Gratification Society Has a Cost
An article in The Boston Globe claims that our "demand for instant results is seeping into every corner of our lives." The need for instant ...
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The Persistent Inventor of Sliced Bread
For nearly 3,000 years, we've eaten bread, but it took the creative efforts of one man to revolutionize the way we eat it. In the early 1900's ...
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Cathedral Took 632 Years to Complete
Consider the Cologne Cathedral. Begun in 1248, the Gothic jewel was to be the main place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperors. Frederick II, one of ...
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