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Daniel Kahneman, der Nobelpreisträger, der „Thinking, Fast and Slow“ schrieb, ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben

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Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist gestorben.


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Daniel Kahneman, der für seine bahnbrechenden Theorien zur Verhaltensökonomie den Nobelpreis erhielt, ist gestorben. Er war 90.

Der israelisch-amerikanische Psychologe sei am Mittwoch friedlich gestorben, heißt es in einer Mitteilung der Princeton University, deren Fakultät er 1993 beigetreten war. Seine Todesursache wurde nicht genannt.

Kahneman, der auch den Bestseller geschrieben hat Denken, schnell und langsam, hat geholfen Entlarven Sie die Vorstellung, dass das Verhalten von Menschen auf rationaler Entscheidungsfindung beruht und stattdessen

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Thinking About A.I. with Stanisław Lem

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“We are going to speak of the future,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem wrote, in “Summa Technologiae,” from 1964, a series of essays, mostly on humanity and the evolution of technology. “Yet isn’t discoursing about future events a rather inappropriate occupation for those who are lost in the transience of the here and now?” Lem, who died in 2006 at the age of eighty-four, is likely the most widely read writer of science fiction who is not particularly widely read

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We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong

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Americans don’t trust one another, and they don’t trust the government. This mistrust is so pervasive that it can feel natural, but it isn’t. Profound distrust has risen within my lifetime; it is intensifying, and it threatens to make democracy impossible.

Many readers will say, “Of course I don’t trust the candidate who tried to steal the last election, or the party

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Non-Western art and design can reveal alternate ways of thinking about math

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“Help me and let me help you.” Or in Ghana’s Twi language: “Boa me na me mmoa wo.”

The aphorism signifies cooperation and interdependence. And like many Twi expressions, it can be communicated with a symbol, or adinkra. This adinkra has two triangular halves that are almost, but not quite, symmetrical. One triangle has a circle sitting atop it and is missing a square from its interior, while the other triangle has a square attached to it and is missing

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Thinking of leaving Twitter? From Bluesky to Threads – the best rival apps revealed as Elon Musk threatens to charge people to use X

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Elon Musk has once again ruffled feathers by revealing that he plans to charge people to use his social media app X (formerly Twitter). 

The billionaire tech tycoon said he will charge all X users a ‘small monthly payment’ because it is the ‘only way to protect against bot accounts’. 

X already offers a subscription version of the app that costs from $8/£9.60 per month – but under future plans all users would have to pay at least something.  

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10 tips to live to be 100: ‘Far more than wishful thinking,’ say longevity experts

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More and more people are making it to the 100-year milestone.

Nearly 90,000 people were at least 100 years and older in the U.S. as of 2021, almost double the amount 20 years prior, according to data from the United Nations.

So — what’s their secret?

The odds of being alive for a full century depend on many different factors, including genetics, location, gender and socioeconomics — but there are some healthy steps people can take to help improve their

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Just thinking you’ve had a good night’s sleep is more important to your mood than actually having one, study finds

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Just thinking you’ve had a good night’s sleep is more important to your mood than actually having one, study finds

  • Paying too much attention to your sleep could be having a detrimental impact 

By Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor For The Daily Mail

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Thinking you’ve had a good night’s sleep is more important to your mood than actually having one, a study shows.

Researchers found that instead of paying too much

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What Was Clarence Thomas Thinking?

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Midway through his concurrence with the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action, Justice Clarence Thomas deploys one of the most absurd and baffling arguments ever put to paper by a justice.

In order to argue that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment did not intend to authorize racially specific efforts to alleviate inequality, Thomas finds himself forced to explain the existence of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which was reauthorized in 1866 by the same Congress that approved the Fourteenth

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Ed Sheeran „Thinking Out Loud“-Skandal – Folgendes wissen wir

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Nachdem gegen Ed Sheeran wegen seines Songs „Thinking Out Loud“ Klage erhoben wurde, hatte der Sänger seinen Tag vor Gericht, um den Skandal anzusprechen.

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Nachdem 2017 rechtliche Schritte gegen Ed Sheeran wegen seines Songs „Thinking Out Loud“ eingeleitet wurden, hatte der Sänger endlich seinen Tag vor Gericht, um den Skandal anzusprechen, der seitdem ein neues Licht auf Eds Hit von 2014 geworfen hat.

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Die Klage wurde ursprünglich von den Erben des Nachlasses von

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