Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The accidents are characteristic of the system itself

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Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival . Page 102. Perrow's Normal Accidents , first published in 1984, is a work of seminal importance be...

They have no criteria

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Ezra Pund: There is no use talking to the ignorant about lies, for they have no criteria.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

You can slide through time to a world which does not yet exist

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Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival . Page 80. Sometimes an idea can drive action as powerfully as an emotion. Plans are an integral part ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

His concern seems well-grounded

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As sometimes occurs, there is a fun dispute going on in one of the children's literature list-servs to which I belong. The catalyst is ...

Surprising lapses in the way we process the world

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Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival . Page 71. One of the reasons magic tricks work can be explained through a brain system called working ...

We often turn out to be wrong, even with giant, classic papers

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Studies of studies show that we get things wrong by Ben Goldacre. In 2005, John Ioannidis gathered together all the major clinical researc...

As societies modernize, they become less dependent on local agricultural output

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The Climate Wars Myth by Dr. Bruno Tertrais. Since the dawn of civilization, warmer eras have meant fewer wars. The reason is simple: all ...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

You see what you expect to see

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Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival . Page 69. As complex as the brain is, the world is more so. The brain cannot process and organize all...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

No bears in this house

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Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival discusses adaptation. Page 63. Only in recent years has neuroscience begun to understand the detailed ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel

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Laurence Gonzales in Deep Survival discusses adaptation. Page 63 on risk perceptions and trade-off decision-making in the context of an av...