Anonymous | You Are Not So Smart | 14 December 2011 Superb essay on money, happiness. "No matter how you turn it, the science says once your basic needs are taken care of, money and other rewards don't make you happier." If you think differently, you're deluding yourself. Here's why Comments Christopher Buckley | New Yorker | 16 December 2011 Personal recollections of the brilliant essayist and debater by one of his best friends. "Lunch began at 1pm and ended at 11.30pm. At about nine o'clock, he said, 'Should we order more food?'" Comments Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 14 December 2011 Recent research throws some light on how the brain makes aesthetic judgements, on art or even wine. We presume our appreciation of an object is determined by its innate qualities. But in reality there are many more factors at play Comments Kurt Andersen et al | Time | 14 December 2011 It began in Tunisia in December 2010. "My son set himself on fire for dignity," says Mannoubia Bouazizi. If only that frustrated and despairing young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, knew what his action had helped inspire Comments Richard Marshall | 3AM Magazine | 12 December 2011 Interview with philosopher Josh Knobe: "I don't see experimental philosophy as a break from philosophical tradition; it's rather that recent philosophy has been untypical of what philosophy has been like for most of its history" Comments Tony Perrottet | Slate | 11 December 2011 Writer blags entry to Vatican's pornographic bathroom, La Stufetta del cardinal Bibbiena. Decorated in 1516 by Raphael with series of erotic frescos, including a "randy goat-god Pan leaping from the bushes with a monstrous erection" Comments | 
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