Is There Such a Thing as an Intelligent Optimist?

Jason Gots, Big Think, July 19, 2015 It’s well-established (and completely obvious) that optimism is a bit delusional, especially if you don’t believe in some form of Heaven or live in a hermetically sealed Utopian community where life has been...

Chase Includes News Feed as Draw to Revamped Site

Robert Barba, Bank Technology News, July 17, 2015 JPMorgan Chase is poised to launch a new home page for Chase Bank this weekend — and the design is decidedly not bank-like. While customers can still use it to sign in and manage their accounts, it is set to offer...

Philip Zimbardo Thinks We All Can Be Evil

Jon Ronson, The New York Times Magazine, July 16, 2015 An interview with Phil Zimbardo who conducted a psychological experiment at Stanford in 1971 that became the basis for the film “The Stanford Experiment” states that it conveys to the general...