Perhaps you saw the headlines this weekend: “Sexting: Just About Everyone’s Doing It,” from Discovery News, or “Online survey finds 8 in 10 adults have engaged in sexting,” from CNN. Wow – that’s ...

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Sampling is a staple of the music industry, giving artists the chance to repurpose other works. Generally, the samples we think of are snippets of songs, like Kanye’s “Gold Digger,” which makes use of ...

The way people make decisions often seems irrational. One explanation for this behavior is that they seek evidence that confirms what they already believe, a phenomenon called 'confirmation bias'. But ...