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“Why you always seem to have room for dessert,” Madeline Marshall, Vox
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“Balablok,” a 1972 animation by Bretislav Pojar. Human nature, same as it ever was.
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People who bring their own reusable shopping bags to the grocery store to help the environment are more likely to buy organic items … and then buy ice cream and cookies, according to new research. Hey, those folks saved the environment, they deserve a treat, right?
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“How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind,” Carmen Nobel, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
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The classic London Underground Map, created by Harry Beck in 1933, is the granddaddy of all those schematic maps that chart subway systems in a simplified manner, without regard to the true scale of distances between stations. These maps reduce complex systems to comprehensible basics, but a recent NYU study shows that users actually regard the maps as if they were drawn to scale, and act accordingly:
