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Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?

March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/09/are-pizza-and-soda-price-elastic/’,size:‘large’} A team from Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina at Chapel Hill seems to think so:
U.S. researchers esti­mate that an 18 per­cent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calo­rie intake enough to lower their aver­age weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing […]

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Marriage — Brain or Heart?

March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongo­ing series of essays
BANGALORE, India — While I was trav­el­ing to the Sil­i­con Val­ley of the East in Decem­ber 2006 with my Suf­folk Uni­ver­sity M.B.A. class in Boston to study busi­ness there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]

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Journalism is a Business

February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Humor, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/28/journalism-is-a-business/’,size:‘large’} Media Mat­ters for Amer­ica, a lib­eral, media-watchdog orga­ni­za­tion, reflects on how Fox News cov­ered the one-year anniver­sary of the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act:
On the one-year anniver­sary of the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act, Fox & Friends pur­ported to ana­lyze the results of the bill […]

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Redundant, Oppressed Men

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East

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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British doc­u­men­tary on the state of men and man­li­ness in mod­ern, West­ern soci­ety:
Men and mas­culin­ity are being mar­gin­alised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even con­sid­ered dys­func­tional. Men are being edged out of the fam­ily, the work­place and wider soci­ety as […]

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Advertising or Porn?

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Europe, Journalism, Marketing, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/advertising-or-porn/’,size:‘large’} A new French adver­tise­ment aimed at stop­ping teenagers from smok­ing is draw­ing some con­tro­ver­sial mar­ket­ing buzz:
A new French anti­smok­ing adver­tise­ment aimed at the young that plays off a porno­graphic stereo­type has got­ten more atten­tion than even its cre­ators intended, and crit­ics sug­gest that it offends com­mon decency […]

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Globalization of Identity

February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took ten­nis lessons at Oak Hill Coun­try Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illi­nois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my new­found pas­sions for jour­nal­ism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
My favorite […]

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Student-Loan Articles

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Finance, Journalism, Law, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/23/student-loan-articles/’,size:‘large’} In a prior post, I ana­lyzed the causes and con­se­quences of student-loan debt among America’s young peo­ple. Now, the Huff­in­g­ton Post has unveiled a new, col­lege sec­tion and intro­duced it with a story on stu­dent loans and another on student-loan abuse.
Col­lege grad­u­ates in 2008 car­ried an aver­age student-loan debt […]

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Student-Loan Debt

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Business, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Finance, Law, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/student-loan-debt/’,size:‘large’} The Wall Street Jour­nal reports on a trend in pri­vate debt that will no doubt esca­late dur­ing the Great Reces­sion:
When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old fam­ily prac­ti­tioner in Colum­bus, Ohio, fin­ished med­ical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has bal­looned to […]

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Racism and Outsiders

February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anti-Semitism, Boston, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/11/racism-and-outsiders/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Fore­cast Highs, writ­ten by the news edi­tor of the Jerusalem Post, notes the results of a recent poll on racism towards Jews:
In the pre­dom­i­nantly Mus­lim nations sur­veyed, views of Jews were over­whelm­ingly unfa­vor­able. Nearly all in Jor­dan (97 per­cent), the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ries (97%) and Egypt […]

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Too Many Men

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East, War

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Michael J. Tot­ten watches this YouTube video and makes an impor­tant point:
I don’t know much about demog­ra­phy, but Mar­tin Kramer makes a strong case in just a few short min­utes for the idea that a sur­plus of military-aged males is a big part of the Mid­dle East’s […]

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MBA">Value of MBA

February 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Advertising, Business, Economics, Education, Finance, Marketing, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/02/the-value-of-an-mba-2/’,size:‘large’} Har­vard Busi­ness Review looks at age to deter­mine whether the per­for­mance of CEOs with MBAs are bet­ter than those with­out:
Are CEOs with MBAs actu­ally stronger lead­ers? The answer might depend on the age of the CEO.
Inspired by the rag­ing debate last year over the role of MBAs in the financial […]

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Lonely Women

January 24th, 2010 · 33 Comments · Boston, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Israel, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/lonely-women/’,size:‘large’} BOSTON — Richard Whit­mire, author of “Why Boys Fail,” has an inter­est­ing arti­cle in the Wall Street Jour­nal based on find­ings of a recent Pew Research Cen­ter report on dat­ing:
Rachel Down­tain is a telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions project man­ager who says her friends would describe her as tall, slen­der, fit and active. […]

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How to Bargain

January 6th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Israel, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/06/how-to-bargain/’,size:‘large’} Jonathan Degani, a for­mer class­mate of mine from the Inter­na­tional M.B.A. pro­gram at Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­sity, offers some good tips on bar­gain­ing like an Israeli. In this eco­nomic cli­mate, I’m sure it will work in the United States as well. Every­one needs to make the sale.

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The Misandry Bubble

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/04/the-misandry-bubble/’,size:‘large’} Here is your required read­ing for the day. Here is the nut graph:
The West­ern World has qui­etly become a civ­i­liza­tion that under­val­ues men and over­val­ues women, where the state forcibly trans­fers resources from men to women cre­at­ing var­i­ous per­verse incen­tives for oth­er­wise good women to con­duct great evil against men and children, […]

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Letter from Israel: A Tale of Two Childhoods

January 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Boston, Britain, Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Europe, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/02/letter-from-israel-a-tale-of-two-childhoods/’,size:‘large’} Sev­en­teenth in an ongo­ing series
RISHON LEZION, Israel — So I was buy­ing a bot­tle of soda at a local kiosk, a con­ve­nience store, when three ten-year-old boys walked in and asked the owner for some plas­tic cups. (Kiosks rou­tinely offer them for free when­ever some­one pur­chases a bot­tle of […]

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