Thursday, October 21, 2010

Consumers Win an Important Battle Against Insurers, Thanks to State Insurance Commissioners


How Much Are You (Really) Worth?


Right-Wing Voter Guide Revolution: What Can Progressives Learn?


5 Ways To Keep Your Brain Active As You Age


Aging


Shadow Elite: Truthiness in the Twitter Era


Facebook's Latest Privacy Flap Is Due to Web Plumbing, Not Policy


Barry Sussman: A Watergate Lesson: Secret Money Means Payoffs, Bribes and Extortion

Barry Sussman: A Watergate Lesson: Secret Money Means Payoffs, Bribes and Extortion

The U.S. Lags in Mobile Connectivity Speeds


No Time For Downtime? 8 Tips for Improving Cognitive Function


To choose austerity is to bet it all on the confidence fairy | Joseph Stiglitz | Comment is free | The Guardian


Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Fox Steps Over the Internet Line; But There's Nothing To Be Done


Why it's Radical to Fight Corporate Control of Government (And Why Net Neutrality Is a Remedy)

Hate Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry


Is Wall Street Zapping America Again?


The Dying Art of Political Explanation


Does Stress Make You Ugly?


Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat?


How to Earn $900,000 an Hour While Unemployment Soars


Monday, October 18, 2010

Free Will and Responsibility

Whether we have free will or not, we certainly aren’t completely free, autonomous individuals. We influence and are influenced by our physical and social environments, often without our awareness. Collectively, we create circumstances that shape the behavior of individuals. And as individuals we can influence collective decision making and alter social conditions.


BBC News - How Mandelbrot's fractals changed the world


On Language - Truthiness - NYTimes.com