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Mad Musings Articles
What to do in your 20s to avoid regrets in your 30s and 40s?
1. Don't make a belief about "living in the moment." Either do not trust that purchasing new bags, shoes, or clothes...
How can you identify intelligent people?
Really like this list - lifted from Quora by Kelly Duncan: Intelligent people do not like to gossip, they like talking...
Americans are pack rats. Swedes have the solution: ‘Death cleaning.’
If your family doesn’t want your stuff when you’re alive, they sure won’t want it when you’re dead. That’s the blunt assessment of yet another...
A pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct
This might strike you as overly optimistic or pessimistic, depending on your worldview. Certain apocalyptic scenarios envision a perfect storm of...
Read like you’re on a diet
I think in this context, they’re absolutely necessary. The Internet is like a bunch of fast food restaurants, all within a click’s reach, yelling at...
Nothing fake about the top 0.1% holding the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90%.
While people argue about what is real and fake news the widening gulf of inequality in the real world only continues to expand. This is actually...
Stop Punishing Black Children Just Because They’re Black
Schools should be held to higher standards than students. If schools irresponsibly impose discipline practices, then those rules (or leaders) should...
The states that spend more money on prisoners than college students
It's a terrible waste of taxpayer money. Since 1990, state and local spending on prisons and jails has risen more than three times faster than...
Is it possible to be fair to actors we simply, irrationally just don’t like?
More to the point, why do we unquestioningly “love” certain actors and instinctively, almost reflexively, “hate” others? In the vortex of 24/7...
Crony capitalism and the rigged system
Both Democrats and Republicans are in this game together. They only differ in minor ways. That is why this year with Bernie Sanders and Donald...
Learning to play fair: Is it the same for kids around the world?
Life isn’t fair. That truth is something that children seem to understand almost intuitively at a young age. However, the path through which they...