How Mr. Coffee Made Coffee Manly

Mr. Coffee, the first electric-drip coffee machine for home use, debuted in 1972, forever changing the way Americans made coffee.
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How Political Events Change Currency Value

What causes shifts in currency after a political event is, essentially, human expectations.
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Why Do Financial Traders Get Those Huge Bonuses?

Highly placed traders win their big money by essentially taking their firms hostage.
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When Do We Care About Ethics Violations?

Experimental evidence suggests that our opinions on ethics depend on who’s committing the violations, and who’s doing the judging.
Christ healing the paralytic, by Anthony van Dyck (c. 1619)

Will We Always Have the Poor Among Us?

To end poverty, public policy must provide much more than economic resources
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14 Ways to Make Meetings Less Awful

Can anything be done to make meetings more useful and less dull?
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The Evolution of Convenience Food in America

Meal kits signal a change in the way we cook, but this is nothing compared with how frozen food disrupted the American kitchen in the mid-20th century.
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What Makes a Career Prestigious?

When choosing a career, we weigh many factors. Chief among our considerations are what we enjoy doing, how ...
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Can Advertising Be a Science?

Advertisers have been trying to develop a precise science of advertising for more than a century.
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Why We Give Children Toys for Christmas

Giving children toys for Christmas first became a thing in early nineteenth century England.