Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Children are beautifully adapted to learn about many possible worlds

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From The Wisdom of Not Being Too Rational by Michael Balter. The children were allowed five trials per experiment lasting 2 minutes each to...
Monday, July 30, 2012

It will incur a revision of belief

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From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A great explication about the differences between risk and uncertainty as well as an epistemo...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Distinguishing fish from bubbles

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From Do dolphins think nonlinearly? from e! Science News, an excellent example of Kauffman's Adjacent Possible concept in play. Researc...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Complex ideas transmitted across time

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From The limits of universalism by Henry A. Kissinger Such an effort must be based on an awareness of our cultural heritage—the preservatio...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Inheritance and a point of departure

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From The limits of universalism by Henry A. Kissinger Burke confronted the conservative paradox: Values are universal, but generally have t...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

The gaps between our assumptions and reality

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The Science of Expectation: Using Humor To Understand Creativity by Sam McNerney. There is a trade-off between heuristic knowledge that i...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

These results falsify the claim that Morton physically mismeasured crania based on his a priori biases

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Scientists Measure the Accuracy of a Racism Claim by Nicholas Wade. This is disappointing. I had a long run of reading Stephen Jay Gould...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

We are rich and blessed to have such young men

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I saw this article ( The Victims: Real movie heroes saved their sweethearts during Colo. ambush by Caitlin Gibbons) the other day but decide...

Competence without comprehension

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From ‘A Perfect and Beautiful Machine’: What Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Reveal About Artificial Intelligence by Daniel C. Dennett. Wha...

Inattentional deafness, confirmation bias and lying

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From Introducing "inattentional deafness" - the noisy gorilla that's missed by Christian Jarrett. Inattentional Blindness a...