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Dec. 14, 2020 , 5:05 PM Ruth, a final-year Ph.D. student, is hunched over her laptop at her oversized kitchen table, typing vigorously, when her flatmate Louisa walks in. “If you continue like this, you’ll be finished with your thesis by midnight!” Louisa exclaims. “What a pity I am not writing my thesis,” Ruth responds sheepishly. “Working on one of those papers you’ve been trying to finish?” Louisa asks hopefully. “No, I haven’t done anything like that today,” Ruth admits. “I’m writing a protocol for Derk.” Ruth knows she should write her papers and her thesis. B...

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Networks over their age, starts small, expands and then after about age 60, friendship networks, the size of them just decline significantly, which seems superficially like a sad story, oh, i'm old and i don't have any friends. but what happens is that people actually make affirmative decisions to eliminate some of their friends, and they focus only on the core group of people. and when they focus, they have fewer friends, but closer friends. that's one of the things that helps boost well-being later in life. >> daniel pink, always a pleasure. >> thanks for having me. >> and we will be back. o...

Because you mess with our business. it affects everything down the line, whether interest rates, all the way down to the loaning. we're starting to see banks, even my own small business are starting to let loose the purse strings a little bit more which is nice. >> john, do you think that the reactions to washington were real, that they were real downsides for most small business owners or psychological which then turns real? >> i think it's both. i think when the shutdown and the sequester obviously that affects certain businesses more than others, it then has an indirect ripple effect. but i...

Coffee shop down the street, that's not competition for me. >> believe it or not, if someone can't find something here, i tell them to go to the jewelry store down the block. i want it to stay in town. why shouldn't they be able to find it in another shop in town? >> 2013 was a tumultuous year for many small business owners. they had to deal with government uncertainty -- confusion over the new health care law. as we look forward, there does seem to be hope. the national federation of independent business optimism index was up in november 9/10 of a point. they provided a seasonal adjusted incr...