Tag Archives: Norm

The Viral Influence of Social Networks

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Paul Goss

This article, The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness, was published in Wired magazine in September 2009. Two researchers began to pour over decades of health information found about the population of Framingham, MA. The … Continue reading →

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Ayn Rand’s Anthropological Insights

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Paul Goss

In the introduction to her seminal work The Fountainhead, Rand comments that in her opinion the greatest failing of man is the loss of the spirit of youth, of giving up. She writes: “Then all of these [men] vanish into … Continue reading →

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