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Maria Konnikova

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I really had to go back and remind myself that trusting makes society function on an individual level related to health and on a social level related to economic growth and development.

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Las vegas shouldn’t exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat squares of identical houses that look as if they were plucked straight from Monopoly.

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There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.

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May 14, 2024

There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.

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May 14, 2024

Las vegas shouldn’t exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat squares of identical houses that look as if they were plucked straight from Monopoly.

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