What Would You Do If Money Didn’t Matter? | Short Film Showcase

We’re told that Taylor opened a restaurant. The net value of the restaurant, in thousands of dollars, two months after its opening is modeled by ( v(t) = 2t^2 - 20t ). Taylor wants to know what the restaurant’s lowest net value will be. Let me underline t…

Adriana gathered data on different schools’ winning percentages and the average yearly salary of their head coaches in millions of dollars in the years 2000 to 2011. She then created the following scatter plot and trend line. So this is salary in million…

Stoic philosopher Epictetus didn’t sugarcoat anything. He was direct and told the listener exactly how it was – at least, from the Stoic perspective. His no-nonsense approach, which becomes apparent when reading what’s left of his lectures, is why I love …

I have a friend named Sammy who, back in the early 2000s, wrote some code for his MySpace page. And what the code did was anybody who visited his page would have his picture and a tagline that said, “Sammy is my hero,” copied over to their homepage. And t…

While I was living in India, the biggest door of my career opened. I pitched a story to National Geographic, and it was to go and tell the story about the last, hand-pulled rickshaw pullers who were living in Calcutta. Word was that they were going to ban…

In 2014, Sanford Professor Rob Willer led a study that explored the relation of gossip and ostracism to the harmony and functionality of experimental groups. In this study, Rob found out that groups that allowed their members to gossip and fold out underp…