The ‘Mafia 3’ trailer brings us to Vietnam-era New Orleans.

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Why isn’t a product designed to protect against a cancer that kills 10,000 Americans each year subjected to the same testing as a prescription drug?

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Much has been made, especially by the Return on Investment crowd, of the value of undergraduate study in the so-called STEM fields: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Lost in the conversation is the way the true liberal arts underpin such study, often because the liberal arts are inaccurately equated solely with the humanities. From the start, the liberal arts included math and science, something I learned firsthand at St. John’s College.

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There’s a key link between hormone levels and unethical behavior, according to new research out of Harvard and UT Austin.

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Last week saw Uber’s market valuation break $50B, a milestone reached two years faster than Facebook did it in 2011.  Is it a tech phenomenon?  Is it a social revolution?  Is it a supply chain breakthrough?  Yes to all of those.  Yet for some reason too many in operations roles don’t see it that way.

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We just got out first look at Mafia 3, and the series looks to be shaking things up. We’re not in the comfortable world of fedoras and pinstripes any more: we’re in 1968 New Orleans, a tumultuous moment that informs Mafia 3’s nastier take on organized crime with societal change and rampant racism. The trailer shows us our new protagonist: a half-black, half-white Vietnam war veteran with a not-terrible Louisiana drawl. He’s driving through the swamp on the outskirts of the city to take care of some business for his family.

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Yes, Lexus’ overboard indeed flies – but there’s a catch.

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Zendesk (ZEN), which operates a cloud platform for custome service, continues to show that it knows how to crank out growth. In the latest quarter, revenues shot up by 63% to $48.2 million. And yes, Wall Street is fairly pleased, with ZEN stock up about 12%.

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Over the past couple years, the term ‘surge’ has taken on a whole new meaning.  If you’re not familiar with why it’s so famous, surge is a feature of the popular ridesharing app Uber, and it signifies increased pricing during times of high demand.

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A baker’s dozen popular-audience books on quantum physics that I think do a good job presenting the key ideas of the theory and experiments.

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