Getting In: The social logic of Ivy League admissions, by Malcolm Gladwell

"As a hypothetical example, take the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State, which are two schools a lot of students choose between," Krueger said. "One is Ivy, one is a state school. Penn is much more highly...

Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer

"making simple changes to our lifestyle can lead to significant improvements in how well our brains function ... However, one man who had gone out on a stag night the evening before the second test found his...

Iranian negotiator boasts of fooling Europeans

  """From the outset, the Americans kept telling the Europeans, 'The Iranians are lying and deceiving you and they have not told you everything'. The Europeans used to respond, 'We trust them'," he...