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Winning the Heart

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What motivates people to work hard and succeed at difficult tasks? In the 1930’s, a psychologist named Karl Duncker devised a famous experiment to try to find out. It’s called the Candle Problem. Small groups are given a candle, a box of tacks, and a book of matches. Their assignment is simple:… Read more »

The Heart of the Matter

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To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. How do you know what’s going on inside someone’s chest? Dr. Rene Laennec treated thousands of patients during the Napoleonic era in France, a time when medicine was just beginning to tackle that question. Some doctors tapped on their patients’ chests to determine the proportion of fluids there, not unlike the way brewers rapped… Read more »