In 1930 Keynes expected prosperity to bring a fifteen hour week within a century. Living standards rose as he predicted, and the leisure did not arrive in the form he expected.
10 essays per RC genre, from easiest to hardest. Finish one and that genre stops scaring you in the exam.
Three short UPSC CSAT-style passages with six questions on inference, assumption, crux and statement validity. Attempt in exam mode: +2.5 for a right answer, −0.83 for a wrong one.
Twenty of 24 radiologists missed a gorilla pasted into a lung scan, and many of them had looked right at it. The result says something uncomfortable about what expertise does to attention.
A famous laboratory result seemed to show that love is not a debt paid for food, yet the experiment explains less than its legend suggests.
A sonnet about a sleeper, a butterfly and two states that each feel entirely real.
A bright old word was chosen as a name in the twentieth century. The choice made a claim about joy that is harder to keep than to make.
A Harvard psychologist is said to have made old men younger by dressing a house as 1959. The story spread widely, while the evidence behind it never did.
A court case about two words in the Preamble raises an older question about whether a constitution should name what it already practises.
A Utah grove of aspen is counted as a single organism, and its size hides two questions that science has not fully answered.
