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Tiny Midges Cause Lincoln Memorial Deterioration
In the late 1980s, the National Park Service noticed that the Lincoln Memorial was slowly crumbling and deteriorating. Why? Part of the problem was from ...
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Fooled By Switched Price Tags in Jewelry Store
In the book, Influence, Robert Cialdini tells a fascinating story about the owner of a jewelry store who was having trouble moving some of the merchandise. ...
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He Could Find a Sunken Treasure, But Not Wisdom
"One of the most intelligent fugitives ever sought," said the U.S. Marshal Service, of treasure hunter turned con-man Tommy Thompson, recently ...
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CEO of Buffalo Wild Wings on the Need for Feedback
Sally Smith, the president and former CEO of the wildly popular Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain, was asked, "What are some things you've ...
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Pilots' Pride Led to Tragic Plane Crash
In his book, Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival, Laurence Gonzales tells the story of United Airlines Flight 232 that crashed in Iowa on July ...
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Our Reluctance to Say 'I Don't Know'
In their book Think Like a Freak, economists Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner state, "It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in ...
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Experts Discuss the Worst Business Decision Ever
The Atlantic magazine asked a number of experts to weigh in on the following question: "What was the worst business decision ever made?" Listen ...
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The United States of Metrics
A New York Times article observes that Americans measure everything. It says, "In the last few years, there has been a revolution so profound that ...
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Rare Coin, Rejected by 'Expert,' Sold for $3.1 Million
George Owen Walton was born on May 15, 1907, in Rocky Mount, Virginia. As an estate appraiser, he had first dibs on rare coins, guns, jewelry, stamps, ...
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Letters from Prison to the Past
Photographer Trent Bell shared a fascinating and haunting photo project recently. Titled "Reflect," the series of images overlays images of ...
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