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Common Sense, Uncommon Wisdom
http://matthew-hetland.blogspot.com
Conventional wisdom is often nothing more than convenient. This blog uncovers the uncommon wisdom that is hidden in our world--either in what lies beneath or in plain sight
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Apologies
I offer my sincerest apologies for not posting as regularly lately as I have been able to previously. However, for your wait, I am releasing a paper which I have been writing for recent college courses geared towards a degree in finance.The paper de...
Please Take My Survey
As part of a required paper I must write for my forthcoming degree in Finance, I am needing to have a survey completed.Please take a few moments to fill out my survey.Please take my online survey here!Vist my blog at www.matthewhetland.com/blog or ju...
Nature or Nurture?
The age-old question: What affects a person’s behavior more: Nature—a person’s genes and other physically intrinsic characteristics; or Nurture—the environment with which a person interacts? While the general population loves to put a ...
The Lipstick Economy
Interesting story determining the measure of how well or how poorly the economy is doing, courtesy the reporters from the New York Times.Not only is the lipstick theory plausible, “it’s perfectly consistent with all kinds of economic theory,” s...
Emotions, On the Face of It
When I was in high school my biology teacher said, very early on in the class, that the human face can give away what a person is feeling--no matter how well we can control our body language, our face can show our emotional state at any one time.Well...
Maximizing Utility and the Brain: Cash or Status?
Scientific American has an article regarding a study of the brain that indicates the brain places a high value on money, but a higher value on social status. From the article:"Our study shows that both behaviorally and in the brain, people place an ...


Food for thought here.
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