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Jean-Jacques Megel-Nuber didn’t always imagine he’d be living in his bookshop, but he knew he wanted it to move. At first, he pictured an itinerant bookstore on a boat. Or in a chalet—appropriate, given his Alsatian roots—but one that was towed behind a tractor trailer. “I didn’t want to wait for people to come to me,” […]
· 5 min read
In 2015, a paper by Jean Decety and co-authors reported that children who were brought up religiously were less generous. The paper received a great deal of attention, and was covered by over 80 media outlets including The Economist, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and Scientific American. As it turned out, however, the paper by Decety was wrong. Another scholar, Azim Shariff, a […]
· 6 min read
In March 2011, Japan endured the strongest earthquake in its recorded history followed by a severe tsunami. The Tohoku tsunami involved waves 40 meters/132 feet high and over 15,500 deaths. Over 450,000 people lost their homes during the floods and the destruction spread to infrastructure all over the country, including the meltdown of three nuclear […]
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Jonathan Bourassa, a former bartender who spent a decade immersed in a lifestyle of constant partying and alcohol consumption, has opened up about his journey to becoming sober. After more than a year without alcohol, Jonathan reflects on the profound changes that have occurred in his life since he made the decision to quit drinking. […]
