People: A Haunting New Documentary About Anthony Bourdain

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A study finds that we don’t just see faces in objects, we also assign emotions to them.

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A Haunting New Documentary About Anthony Bourdain

“If you’re blind to the way circumstance shapes someone’s behavior, it’s going to be hard to really appreciate how the world looks to them” — Robert Wright on Lee Ross, the fundamental attribution error, and cognitive empathy

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“The work of a professional philosopher in Ghana is significantly constrained” — Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani (University of Ghana) on what it’s like to be a philosopher in his country

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