Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
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What does ‘Saturday Night Live’ have in common with German philosophy? Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” was married to one of the show’s writers, Rosie Shuster. One day when the show was still young, an assistant named Paula Davis went to Shuster’s apartment in New York and found Dan Aykroyd getting […]
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http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_05_16_a_brain.html May 16, 2005 The Critics: Books Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up? 1. Twenty years ago, a political philosopher named James Flynn uncovered a curious fact. Americans—at least, as measured by I.Q. tests—were getting smarter. This fact had been obscured for years, because the people who give I.Q. tests continually […]
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