The Brain Exchange
Article Abstract:
Calgary-based Foresight Exchange Website allows investors to trade "credibills," in lieu of cash, for "yes" or "no" futures contracts on ideas. Stock brokers invest in futures such ideas as the likelihood that a cure for HIV will be found, cars will become self-driving and same-sex marriages will be legalized.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1997
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Ransom notes: in the company of strangers, I fell prey to their kindness
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An author describes his kidnapping in Ghana while he pursued a story about two Ashanti princes from the 19th century. He managed to escape his captors and found out first-hand that truth is stranger than fiction.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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Me, my brain, and I
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An author describes his experiences of suffering from brain damage after succumbing to a virus in 1988. The virus caused irreparable damage to the brain which continues to affect how the author behaves.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 2000
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