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Friday, December 31, 2010
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Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
The scale debate is salient, but the presentation is interesting.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
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Friday, December 10, 2010
15-Year-Old Protester Goes Off On British Establishment (VIDEO)
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Sen Bernie Sanders Amazing Speech!
I often wonder what reactions would occur if MSNBC spent more time discussing the issues that Senator Sanders raises rather than covering stories of "Is Sarah Palin Running for President?" or what she is 'tweeting' or what Beck or Limbaugh are saying. [] Or, even more bizarrely, if FOX actually spent time broadcasting 'alternative' views such as Senator Sanders, unabridged, unedited, and not commentated on, say, for a week...Would it be the end of civilization?
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
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GOP Lawmakers: Elizabeth Warren's Job 'Undermines' Constitution
...and another prime example of how the system actually works...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
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Older but Not Wiser? The Psychology Behind Seniors' Susceptibility to Scams: Scientific American
But it's not just memory and reasoning that matter. "We use our gut feelings and our emotions to guide us to make decisions," says Mara Mather, a psychologist who studies aging, emotion and memory at the University of Southern California School of Gerontology. Contrary to stereotype, older people generally feel more optimistic than young people do, and are more likely to focus on the potential upsides of a situation. As people age and begin to feel that their time is limited, some researchers suggest, they seek out emotional fulfillment. This tendency to focus on the positive changes the decisions older people make.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Billion-Pixel Image Tool Probes Science Mysteries
--- I read about this technology years ago, and it is developing much faster than many had anticipated. This is going to have a huge impact. It seems that some 'Blade Runner' tech is here.
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Hey, We're Gonna Balance the Budget! But Seriously, Folks ...
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But collaboration and bipartisanship are means, not ends. They're ways of getting things done, not the things themselves. When a culture prizes the method more it does the results, it's gone astray.Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com
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Friday, November 12, 2010
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Epigenetics Seeks Clues to Mental Illness in Genes’ Life Story - Science in 2011 - NYTimes.com
epigenetics, the study of how people’s experience and environment affect the function of their genes.
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time
outline - promotion of "Biocentrism" (co-authored with astronomer Bob Berman) lays out Lanza's theory of everything.
Experiment after experiment continues to suggest that we create time, not the other way around.
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Outrage, Misguided -- In These Times
Friday, November 5, 2010
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To Spend or Not To Spend: The Austerity vs. Stimulus Debate
3quarksdaily: "To Spend or Not To Spend: The Austerity vs. Stimulus Debate"
Monday, November 1, 2010
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James T. Kloppenberg Discusses His ‘Reading Obama’ - NYTimes.com
To Mr. Kloppenberg the philosophy that has guided President Obama most consistently is pragmatism, a uniquely American system of thought developed at the end of the 19th century by William James, John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce. It is a philosophy that grew up after Darwin published his theory of evolution and the Civil War reached its bloody end. More and more people were coming to believe that chance rather than providence guided human affairs, and that dogged certainty led to violence.
Pragmatism maintains that people are constantly devising and updating ideas to navigate the world in which they live; it embraces open-minded experimentation and continuing debate. “It is a philosophy for skeptics, not true believers,” Mr. Kloppenberg said.
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Why Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol | Psychology Today
That such behavior is detrimental to health and has few, if any, positive consequences, is irrelevant for the Hypothesis. It does not predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to engage in healthy and beneficial behavior. Instead, it predicts that more intelligent individuals are more likely to engage in evolutionarily novel behavior.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Obama vs. Stewart: The Pace of Change
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, revise
Both men were showing us the other night how practiced communicators insert their views, stand their ground, revise the course of conversation, and substitute a positive term or perspective for a negative one.Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Statistics - Destroyer of Superstitious Pretension
Our psychological make-up seeks a chain in disparate events. Our mind is a bridge-builder across chasms of unrelated incidents; a credulity stone-hopper, crouching at each juncture awaiting the next link in a chain of causality. To paraphrase David Hume, we tend to see armies in the clouds, faces in trees, ghosts in shadows, and god in pizza-slices.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
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The Allais Paradox
This minor change in notation soon revealed one of the most important discoveries of their careers. When Kahneman and Tversky framed questions in terms of gains and losses, they immediately realized that people hated losses. In fact, our dislike of losses was largely responsible for our dislike of risk in general. Because we felt the disadvantages of risky decisions (losses) more acutely than the advantages (gains), most risks struck us as bad ideas. This also made options that could be forecast with certainty seem especially alluring, since they were risk-free. As Kahneman and Tversky put it, “In human decision making, losses loom larger than gains.” They called this phenomenon “loss aversion”
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/the-allais-paradox/#ixzz13KDHHFm8
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It's the Occupation, Stupid - By Robert A. Pape | Foreign Policy
Extensive research into the causes of suicide terrorism proves Islam isn't to blame -- the root of the problem is foreign military occupations.
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Juan Williams Is Right: Political Correctness About Terrorists Must End!
Sadly for you (and this is also why you shouldn't be working for a real news organization like NPR), Shahzad never said that. If you were a real journalist, you would have quoted him accurately. What he actually said was that he was the "first droplet of the flood," not blood. But I know how easy it is to mishear things when scary Muslims are talking. And I guess it's not a huge difference anyway.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
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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.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
When Baghdad was centre of the scientific world
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By the eighth century, with western Europe languishing in its dark ages, the Islamic empire covered an area larger in expanse than either the Roman empire at its height or all the lands conquered and ruled by Alexander the Great. So powerful and influential was this empire that, for a period stretching over 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic.
Read more at www.guardian.co.uk
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
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Once Upon a Time, in America…
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The right has one fundamental advantage over its opponents: storytelling.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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Burning the Quran Is Like Burning the Gospels
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Nearly two centuries ago, the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine wrote, "Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people."
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
When Outside the Box Isn't Outside Enough: Pseudo-Creativity and the Brain's Love of Washington DC Politics
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That is, the brain's reality of information processing, especially when we are hard pressed for creative solutions to perplexing problems, like the urgency for economic revival. And believe it or not, being an Independent does not make any difference either. We are all susceptible to illusions around our decision making, no matter the party designation. So what follows is an exploration of the limitations of creative brainstorming that lies outside party politics and has the brain laughing that it has effectively diverted the attention off to the warring parties.
Beware. What is about to follow has nothing to do with being a Republican or a Democrat and yet has everything to do with the reality of Washington D.C. and the world as we know it.
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