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Updated Feb. 3, 2015 8:48 a.m. ET Chronically late people can be frustrating and baffling to anyone stuck waiting for them. One main explanation for their behavior is deceptively simple, psychologists say: People simply underestimate how long a task will take. That’s a little-known concept called the planning fallacy, which is a strong tendency to…
A French anti-racism organization on Tuesday filed an official complaint for discrimination after a company published a job ad online looking for a computer graphics designer who “if possible” is “not Jewish.” The job description, which was published Monday on specialized website www.graphic-jobs.com by graphic design agency NSL Studio and has since been removed, sparked…
Over the years we have had our fair share at the epic social(ist) experiment that is Venezuela. Below is a random selection of stories over the past years or two, which truly capture the essence of Venezuela’s socialist revolution: Unfortunately, the country whose president two weeks ago said that “Venezuela Must Deepen Socialism To Improve…
Feb. 3, By Christian Murray The city has plans to develop thousands of affordable apartments over the Sunnyside Yards. Mayor Bill de Blasio, during his state of the city address today, said that he aims to build 11,250 affordable units over the yards and said that the housing could cater to more than 30,000 people….
Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana got his official portrait done and well, it’s missing two very important things: melanin, so therefore accuracy. Jindal is of Indian descent, and he is perpetually saying the worst things. He really must get his Land of Abandoned People passport soon. But this official portrait is doing the Matrix backbend to…
What does the phrase “next weekend” mean to you? According to its definition, it should mean the the nearest or most immediate weekend. But the nearest weekend is often called “this weekend,” leading some people to assume that by saying “next weekend,” you might actually mean the weekend after this coming one. Many people find themselves…
by Zack Ford Posted on February 3, 2015 at 10:20 am “Oregon Bakery Found Culpable For Anti-Gay Discrimination, Could Face $150,000 Fine” Aaron and Melissa Klein speaking at the 2014 Values Voters Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council. CREDIT: YouTube/FRCAction The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) announced Monday that the owners of…
Gearbox COO Brian Martel says that a re-release of Homeworld: Cataclysm depends on “finding the original source code.” Gearbox’s Homeworld Remastered Collection will be releasing later this month and the excitement among fans of the classic franchise couldn’t be higher. For some however, the release of the collection is marred by the persistence of a…
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis easily swept the 2014 Grammy Awards, racking up wins in multiple rap categories at a ceremony that has historically been blind to the cultural impact of many revered hip-hop artists.Critics argued that even in 2014, it still took a white rapper like Macklemore to achieve this, while Kendrick Lamar left without…
“Make it happy!” Coca-Cola’s new marketing campaign exhorts. The campaign, introduced during a Super Bowl commercial, is accompanied by a stunt through which Twitter users reply to negative tweets with the hashtag “#MakeItHappy”; Coca-Cola then transforms those tweets into cute ASCII art. “We turned the hate you found into something happy,” @CocaCola chirps. The Twitter…