The English economist and author Tim Harford has some counterintuitive advice for anyone who wants to become better at what they do (or solve a problem): Spend time doing something else. He calls the ...

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Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...

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