3 month ago
deusx : Overcoming Bias: Mind Projection Fallacy - "Would a non-humanoid alien, with a different evolutionary history and evolutionary psychology, sexually desire a human female? It seems rather unlikely. To put it mildly."
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3 month ago
deusx : Overcoming Bias: Joy in the Merely Real - "You might say that scientists - at least some scientists - are those folk who are in principle capable of enjoying life in the real universe."
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deusx : Op-Ed Contributor - Put a Little Science in Your Life - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - "Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable — a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is emp
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.
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6 month ago
deusx : Keeping It Simple - "My business plan is: 1. Create high-quality content. 2. Tell people about it. 3. Profit."
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8 month ago
adamrg : In Praise of Idleness By Bertrand Russell
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gleuschk : Set Theory: Should You Believe? - fantastic rant
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11 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : commentary on Wolfram's A New Kind of Science - (via science.slashdot) [via]
gleuschk : The Bactra Review: Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science - crushing
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Edge-Serpentine Gallery: FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - Dean Kamen's is wrong in three different ways
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11 month ago
deusx : CRACKED.com - What is the Monkeysphere? - "It's just the one single reason society doesn't work."
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12 month ago
gleuschk : How to Do Philosophy - to keep an eye on, and use as ammunition against Kord :)
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14 month ago
deusx : Blind Men and an Elephant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "a group of blind men (or men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one touches a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then compare notes on what they felt, and learn they are in complete disag
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15 month ago
nelson : earnest vs. cool - A fantastic essay on the emptiness of hip
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16 month ago
deusx : eekim.com: EEK Speaks - "Small shifts can catalyze great change. Sometimes you have to back up before you can move forward."
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17 month ago
deusx : The Yuk-Factor - "Habit and familiarity have a great deal (though not everything) to do with what people find disgusting but very little to do with ethics. ... Disgust is good clean fun and provides endless amusement for children, but it's worthless as a moral compas
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17 month ago
Andy Baio : Virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell poses as D.C. subway busker - Washington Post poses and records an experiment in art out of context [via]
adamrg : Its about the frame - ... or is it?
dbow : Pearls Before Breakfast - Would you recognize beauty out of context? Would you let it move you enough to even turn your head for a second? This tragically beautiful setup and story (from more than five months ago) yields hauntingly predictable results.
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gleuschk : Mathematical knowledge: internal, social and cultural aspects - Yu. Manin
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18 month ago
jimray : The big question - We asked 100 writers and thinkers to answer the following question: Left and right defined the 20th century. What's next?
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19 month ago
adamrg : Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto - "the Psychopathic School, Elitism, the failure of Progressive Education"
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jimray : George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
adamrg : George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Ethan Marcotte : George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language - Saving this 'cause I've never read it. Which makes me retroactively hate my school's English department even more. ∞
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20 month ago
deusx : if:book: blogging restructures consciousness? - "These rules (and their runes) create a scaffold for the brain, which, now able to engage with complex ideas in contemplative solitude as opposed to interlocution, begins to conceive of itself as an individual entity rather than as part of a collective. L
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20 month ago
deusx : Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t - New York Times - "All the varieties of free will worth having, we have"
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20 month ago
Andy Baio : The Edge annual question, "What are you optimistic about?" - funny, everyone from Boing Boing was a contributor except Mark [via]
Linkorama : Optimism - What are you optimistic about is the Edge question for 2007
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