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Do you have any tips on how to ask great questions in a departmental seminar? I’m a new hire in a prestigious department, and this is the first way my colleagues size me up. The thing is: I’m not ...

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Forget the horoscopes, the fortune-tellers, and even the long-winded wine-downs with friends; the real answers to your life’s most difficult questions are easier to obtain than you might think.

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Does the popularity of strategic-beta exchange-traded funds reflect the “wisdom of crowds” or the “madness of crowds”? Despite the popularity of strategic-beta ETFs (or perhaps because of it), ...