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Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

January 16, 2011 by  
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Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.

Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives

January 11, 2011 by  
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In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. Jane Chen shows us an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm, a design that’s safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.