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Work–Life Balance: Can You Actually Make That Happen?

Let me start off by saying – there is no such thing as “work–life balance” in a biomedical research career. In today’s modern society, the world is evolving at an unprecedented fast pace. The speed of progress in the biomedical research field is astonishing. The publications indexed by PubMed was ~9,000 during 2000 and increased to ~60,000 during 2013 (1). Unfortunately, the growth of federal a...

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Can Other People Make You Less Creative?

This paper explains in layperson’s terms how an agent-based model was used to investigate the hypothesis that culture evolves more effectively when novelty-generating creative processes are tempered by imitation processes that preserve proven successful ideas. Using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution we found that (1) the optimal ratio of inventing to imitating ranged from 1:1 to ...

Actions That Make You Change Your Mind - . . .

Asymmetry thesis and side-eeect problems in linear time and branching time intention logics. logical approach to high-level robot programming { a progress report.determinism: On having the ability to choose (extended abstract).

Before You Make That Big Decision… Hbr.org

THANKS TO a slew of popular new books, many executives today realize how biases can distort reasoning in business. Confi rmation bias, for instance, leads people to ignore evidence that contradicts their preconceived notions. Anchoring causes them to weigh one piece of information too heavily in making decisions; loss aversion makes them too cautious. In our experience, however, awareness of th...