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Barack Obama: The Ultimate Interview World Pick of the day

Doris Kearns Goodwin | Vanity Fair | 23rd September 2016

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Obama on Obama: “On the spectrum of successful politicians, I’m not introverted the way some have been, but I’m not an F.D.R. or a Bill Clinton, who are just constantly in a crowd and just relishing it. I like my quiet time. There is a writer’s sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back. I am generally optimistic. I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad” (7,400 words)

Why Is Milk In The Back Of The Store? Money

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Why do supermarkets usually put milk at the back of the store? Conventional wisdom holds that it must be a sales ploy. You go in to buy milk, you get funnelled past shelves of other items that you can also be lured into buying. But that sounds implausible. Competition will surely force supermarkets to put the milk more or less where the customers want it. If so, the real question is why customers want to go to the back of the store. Do they themselves want to be tempted into other purchases? (1,300 words)

The Politics Of Pockets Life

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Men’s clothing tends to have “capacious, visible pockets”; women’s clothing to have small pockets, or none at all. Is this a strategy for prolonging male dominance? “As we become more civilized, we need more pockets. No pocketless people has ever been great since pockets were invented, and the female sex cannot rival us while it is pocketless.” Or is it economics? “As long as clothing designers make women’s clothes without pockets, women will have to buy purses” (1,600 words)

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