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Amos and Danny were an unlikely duo. Amos Tversky was an eternal optimist, an Israeli military hero, and a neat freak. Even as a young man, Danny Kahneman was a pessimist and a worrier. Forced into hiding during the Holocaust, he immigrated to Palestine after the war, and eventually landed in the same Psychology department as Tversky, where […]

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In 1961, Groucho Marx received an unlikely piece of fan mail. The poet T.S. Eliot had written to him, requesting a photograph. Marx responded, and the two began a correspondence that lasted for the next three years. It’s not just the mingling of so-called low-brow and high-brow culture that made this relationship so bizarre—it’s that […]

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