Word: learnedness
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Nobody disputes Caravaggio's immense achievement. Yet it's hard not to wonder what he might have accomplished if he had lived into old age - say 45? As a young man he amassed a police record worthy of a rap star: arrests, citations, imprisonments, most of them connected to brawls...
Designer Natalie Chanin has transformed the appeal of handmade clothes into an economic-redevelopment model with her Project Alabama line. Chanin is a former film stylist (she handled costumes) who while on hiatus in New York City needed an outfit for a party. That's when she deconstructed and refashioned...
Not all projects work out. Acumen lent money to an Indian entrepreneur who designed a $42 hearing aid but wasn't able to move it to market. Yet even in that case there was a lesson to be learned, says Novogratz, a former banker. "We want to understand how to...
UNTIL RECENTLY, THERE HAVE BEEN TWO groups of people: those who argue sex differences are innate and should be embraced and those who insist that they are learned and should be eliminated by changing the environment. Sax is one of the few in the middle--convinced that boys and girls...
Maybe before this incident, Summers thought “innate differences” proved that he, a man, simply couldn’t demonstrate that kind of empathy or understanding. But he’s learned his lesson. The experiences of women, his friends and colleagues, many from cultural milieus...