- Once hubs are there, they fundamentally change the way the system behaves and the way we understand that system. - Hubs like O'Hare mean you can get pretty much anywhere in the world in just a few flights. But that connectivity also has consequences.
But there is one time when the two armies confront each other. And then a hare , we're told, runs across the ground between them, and the Scythians forget the battle with the Persians and go after the hare , much to the real annoyance of the Persians.
I never get anything done. Through O'Hare . OK. All right.
These things are rewarded by an out-of-control system. This was what Hare was saying to me. I have to say, when I was learning all of this, I'm wondering what I should do with my new-found psychopathic-spotting skills.
Most of the inmates didn't know what the hell was going on. And Robert Hare said that the people who determine who is and isn't a psychopathic on behalf of Coalinga, he said he
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Pero luego, no soy un hombre al que le haya costado encontrarse todo el día en su casa. Y seguramente haremos algo divertido para poder compartirlo.
They're hunters. And you can see what they're hunting down here. They're hunting hares . And the hunt was very important for the Scythians. There's a wonderful account which the Greeks give of a confrontation between the Persian King Darius and the Scythians.
I think you'll see if you read the book that the people involved, both supernatural and human, are really extremely unlike the characters in the sitcom. There's no harem pants. There's no nose-wiggling.
And it didn't work, which is why I'm here. The last harebrained idea I had was that I thought, even though I was about to have a newborn, and I'd never written a book before, and I have this full-time job, which is taking care of my website, no big deal.
Airlines began shifting service there. As more airlines connected flights to O'Hare , passengers had more options to connect, making it increasingly attractive. After deregulation in the 1970s, more airlines were free to add routes and the feedback loop accelerated.
I know I spent a while answering a question about there's a scene from an old Disney movie, where a hare is-- it's a tortoise and the hare thing, and the hare is playing tennis against itself. And so it's hitting the ball, running to the other side, hitting the ball back.
fast enough to get the other side of the tennis court to hit it back? And how fast was that hare moving? What must its legs have been like?
This is what our house looked like when we moved in. That tower back there is O'Hare Airport.
But what I mean is there's certain things that journalists want to write about. There's a guy called Sir David Hare who writes very good plays. But I never thought they were as good as everyone else, although I like the man immensely and he's very bright.
And perhaps Pixar is deriving some inspiration from this realm as well. This is a Taylor's sea hare , and normally it grazes on blades of eel grass. And it camouflages beautifully, as you can imagine.
So talks in the book-- talks in his book, "The Psychology of Human Misjudgement," about the power of reciprocation. And he talks about these Hare Krishna people in airports, where they handing out flowers. They're giving out free flowers and you say, well, why are you giving me a free flower?
The mantra in my tradition is Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama.
And in this study by Harenski, what they did was they actually looked at prisoners and some were psychopaths as determined
We're descended from the harems of guys like that.
male they fight for a harem of female deers they show off the bigger the
before he came up with this harebrained idea very different kind of reaction
Take airports for example. In 1955, Chicago O'Hare opened to commercial flights. Unlike neighboring airport, Midway, it had long runways and plenty of space for new jet aircraft.
Each new route made the airport more useful to passengers and more appealing to other airlines. Today, O'Hare is the most connected airport in the United States, with direct flights to well over 200 destinations. - But we don't just see hubs in manmade networks.
So growing up in South Mississippi as a Hare Krishna was very difficult at times because I can remember bringing my lunch and my lunchbox
And sometimes they'll recommend the womb of a hare for women to eat for conception purposes, but very rarely for aphrodisiacs.
remember the mantra. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna.
But think about the parable of the tortoise and the hare .
The other challenge was to spend time with the Hare Krishnas in one winter day.
So one in 100, walking around, regular people, are psychopaths. This, according to Robert Hare and his group. But that rises to 4% of CEOs and business leaders.
Most of the inmates didn't know what the hell was going on. Corporate psychopaths. This was Hare 's contention, that psychopathic behavior will both propel you to the top of the tree, because of the kind of person it turns you into, and also, the system
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Fantastic. Hareesh has another question for you.
A fancy house. A harem of gorgeous women-- not that you'd want that, of course.
them. He had this harem of women who kind of surrounded him who he always promised to take care of in his will; you saw them in the first picture.
And the reason for this is because it's the tortoise and the hare .
Like the grandfather of psychopathy studies. So I did. I went on a Hare course. And I am now a certified-- I have a certificate of attendance-- and I have to say, extremely adept psychopath-spotter.
Most of the inmates didn't know what the hell was going on. Anyway, I recounted all my findings to Robert Hare , who was unimpressed.
Most of the inmates didn't know what the hell was going on. Yeah. And that's certainly what Hare thinks.
Most of the inmates didn't know what the hell was going on. This surprised me, when I asked Robert Hare about this.
those shapes in your head to see whether "hatter" and "dormouse" and "march hare " were all mentioned in the same place. This is just, it's a non-, it's an impossible task. It's just not possible
His first opportunity was so flaky -- some guy in Florida doing some harebrained thing.
But that connectivity also has consequences. In August, 2025, thunderstorms shut down Chicago O'Hare , and 280 flights were canceled and 80 were diverted. Overflow hit at least six other US airports.
It’s a story that can teach us something, like “The Tortoise and the Hare ,” or “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” except it really happened.
Now, as you can imagine, growing up in a Hare Krishna farm in South Mississippi was quite unique.
I spent some time in the Midwest, and my favorite reggae bar was The Wild Hare and Singing Armadillo Frog Sanctuary in Wrigleyville.
So an animal that hears very well, like a hare a or rabbit or a deer, will have a very advanced and
Most of the inmates didn't know what the hell was going on. But back then, it was true, what Robert Hare said, that this was like a hugely important story, but nobody was interested.
then take one of two planes everyday that are like puddle jumpers that go from O'Hare airport to Paducah, Kentucky.