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Starbucks as a "fantasy job"? "Starbucks was the great American backup plan. The emergency exit. The parachute," she writes. "You could tell yourself that when you were ready to bolt your job – or your employer kicked you out – you could land softly at Starbucks, padded by the promise of part-time employment, a pleasant…

Behavior – $1? No Thanks. 100 Cents? You Bet. "The findings are in keeping with studies on how the brain handles calculations involving quantity. Studies have found that people tend to overestimate differences between small quantities and underestimate differences between large ones." (tags: psychology research money economics)

Photographs of Israeli Bauhaus & Israeli Architecture in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories at Historama.com (tags: photography architecture)

Why are architects so obsessed with schools and rules? "Why are architects so dogmatic? Partly, it's because architecture is a zero-sum game. A publisher of novels doesn't have to choose between Tom Clancy and Tom Wolfe, but a building client must choose one architect. Thus architects are obliged to compete. It helps to convey an…

Do vegetarians really have better sex? "Studies show vegetarians have better sex." Do they? Not necessarily. In a statement released in response to NBC's decision, PETA noted that meat makes people "fat, sick, and boring in bed," claiming that vegetarians are, "on average, fitter and slimmer than meat eaters" and that meat and dairy consumption…

The Psychology of Sharing | PSFK Ultimately, the expectations on both sides of the equation are somewhat problematic – a tangled mess of envy, regret, obligation, narcissism, self-consciousness and desire – a fact that underscores the notion that maybe we’re not really escaping ourselves by moving online after all, but merely amplifying the aspects that…