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For Your Viewing Pleasure: an animated lecture by Kurt Vonnegut in which he talks about man-eating lampreys and warheads filled with sperm. It is a lot like what it sounds like.

We get it, you're into finance -- but what can you tell me about lit crit? This piece from The Atlantic purports to show how literary theory has its place in the world of finance: "The act of imagining the future in finance goes by other names—'vision' and 'invention' are among the more respectable euphemisms—in order to disguise the presence of the non-rational in financial activity. But rarely do scholars explore the role of imagination in economic life systematically. In a realm dominated by economic and financial scholarship that aspires to be 'scientific,' fantasy and creativity in envisioning the future are often ignored; they don't fit well into a model of research whose aim is to reduce unknowns and to eliminate surprises as much as possible."