15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

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The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

"TV is is just troubled people being bood these days"

"The right sort of mad are people who are a bit madder than we fear we are becoming, and in a recognizable way. We might be anxious but we aren't as anxious as they are" etc.

The Rosenhan experiment

Schumpeter: Great bad men as bosses | The Economist

Schumpeter: Great bad men as bosses | The Economist: "Richard Tedlow of Harvard Business School argues that many “giants of enterprise” suffer from what Norwegians call stormannsgalskap, the madness of great men."

Summers on the Winklevoss Twins

Google Reader (22): "�'One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case.'"