Norman Ravvin
Norman Ravvin is a writer of fiction, criticism and journalism. His books include Hidden Canada, Cafe des Westens, Sex, Skyscrapers, and Yiddish, and A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory. He has also edited the short story collection Great Stories of the Sea, His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Canadian magazines as well as on the CBC. He has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick. Presently, he is the chair of Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.
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Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management.
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