Read more Malcolm Gladwell stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3999/malcolm-gladwell.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:03:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72895/biased-harvard-wants-to-know.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDo you have a subconscious love of gays—or hatred of white people? There's an app for that. Actually, it's a website that's part of a study by Harvard, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington . “Project Implicit” gathers personal information, then puts you through a 15-minute test...http://www.newser.com/story/72895/biased-harvard-wants-to-know.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 01 Nov 2009 5:57:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71586/dog-fighting-football-share-brutal-similarities.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMalcolm Gladwell is serious when he asks the question, in the New Yorker , whether football is really any different from dog fighting. He doesn't just mean that both inflict grievous injury to combatants—though the brain damage sustained by football linemen takes considerably longer to kill them—but that there...http://www.newser.com/story/71586/dog-fighting-football-share-brutal-similarities.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 13 Oct 2009 17:12:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64859/wall-street-lives-dies-by-overconfidence-gladwell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagConfidence is key to the banking game, but an overabundance of it seems to have made the industry’s titans so delusional they blundered into the financial crisis, Malcolm Gladwell writes in the New Yorker . “The roots of Wall Street’s crisis were not structural or cognitive so much as they were...http://www.newser.com/story/64859/wall-street-lives-dies-by-overconfidence-gladwell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Jul 2009 16:31:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63265/anderson-vs-gladwell-the-battle-over-free.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChris Anderson's new book, Free , examining the repercussions the Internet trend of bringing costs to zero, triggered a mini-war with Malcolm Gladwell, who lambasted him for arguing that "the New York Times should be staffed by volunteers, like Meals on Wheels." In the London Times , Antonia Senior does play-by-play commentary,...http://www.newser.com/story/63265/anderson-vs-gladwell-the-battle-over-free.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Jul 2009 19:45:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48529/writers-hail-message-from-a-prince.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's inaugural address showed a literary mastery of language, assorted authors tell the Los Angeles Times . The president's plain speaking and restraint is commended, along with his use of "we" instead of "I." Author Ted Wilmer hails the president's use of "tight language, short sentences and strong images," and...http://www.newser.com/story/48529/writers-hail-message-from-a-prince.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Jan 2009 4:23:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42256/gladwell-on-success-its-about-luck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJournalist and pop guru Malcolm Gladwell brings other people's big ideas to the masses, and in that way, “I’m a parasite,” he says. In his new book, the author takes modesty to a new level, crediting his success—which, by the way, manifests itself in a $4 million advance for...http://www.newser.com/story/42256/gladwell-on-success-its-about-luck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Nov 2008 13:49:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/699/the-moral-hazard-myth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMalcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink, examines the premise underlying U.S. health insurance known by the Dickensian term: Moral Hazard. The theory of Moral Hazard describes the notion that insurance can change peoples’ behavior. Without deductibles, co-payments and other barriers to use, people will use too...http://www.newser.com/story/699/the-moral-hazard-myth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 18 Mar 2007 20:43:03 CDT