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...tighter, the choruses were clearer, and most importantly, you could hear every pseudoliterate word leader Hutch Harris had to wail about. Lyrics painted a vague portrait of self-righteous rage and apocalyptic rebellion; Harris’s was the language of inarticulate teen angst projected on a romantically nihilistic worldview. They could be embarrassing—and, to be sure, sometimes downright stupid—but the only lyrics that could belong to music this catchy were inanely simple.Harris’s distinctive yelps, razor-sharp guitars and a minor hit single, “How We Know...
...most productive uses and society prospers. But its elegant models rely on a bold assumption: rational decisions by self-interested individuals create efficient markets. Behavioral economics challenged this assumption, and the financial meltdown has just about shattered it; even former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan confessed his Chicago School worldview has been shaken. "We couldn't have planned a better marketing campaign for behavioral economics," MIT's Ariely quips. (See the best business deals...
...scholarship in the Middle Ages. "There is more self-confidence in the Islamic world about dealing with reason, constitutionalism, science and other big issues that define modern society," says Ibrahim Kalin of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research in Ankara. "The West is no longer the only worldview to look up to. There are other ways of sharing the world and negotiating your place...
...most camp B movies of the 1950s (“I Married a Monster from Outer Space”) to new releases (“Chrysalis”) to, perhaps strangest of all, mass-marketed Hollywood fare (“Transformers”). But fans point to the distinctive worldview that sci-fi films provide as a unifying thread through the festival.“I like the positive view of the future,” says Jim Peterson, a 10-year attendee of the event. “Science fiction shows us new ideas...
...point; expect a Bernard Madoff reference any episode now.) "The average person tells three lies in 10 minutes of conversation," Lightman crisply informs us, and while Lie to Me balances him with a partner (Kelli Williams) so earnest and sweet that she eats pudding for breakfast, his jaded worldview is borne out. The characters lie for reasons good, evil and poignant; they lie in guilt and in innocence--but in the end, they lie and they lie. Lie to Me's pilot is brisk anthropological fun. But you may find yourself staring at your loved ones' faces a little...