tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60520962012-01-28T12:20:32.884-07:00Miscellaneous rants about how things work, or, *should* work. Great apologies to Maimonides for borrowing a similar title. I hope to follow his lead as a rationalist.davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.comBlogger2491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-1720397621066300002012-01-28T12:20:00.000-07:002012-01-28T12:20:32.906-07:00

Are Your Passwords Putting You In Danger? | Time Management NinjaYou may need better passwords if you… - Use the Same Password for Multiple Accounts – Do you have 1 password that you use across all your accounts? If someone gets your password, can they get into all of your accounts? - Use Simple Words or Your Kids’ Names - Is your password, “PlayGolf2011?” Or, “SamMaryKatie?” These passwords make

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So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn't That Special?Regular readers who care about such things — I think there are about three of you — will recall that I have long had a thing about just how unsound many of the claims for the presence of power law distributions in real data are, especially those made by theoretical physicists, who, with some honorable exceptions, learn nothing about data

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Infinite Rooms � Modeled Behaviorone of the principle tricks your brain exploits is monocular parallax. That is, not two different images in two eyes, but different images as the head moves. This makes head tracking a must for true 3D.the holodeck...

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The Five Big Surprises of Radical Management - Forbes

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M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All - Forbesa totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.Could be

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Common mistakes of right-wing and market-oriented economists? — Marginal RevolutionAlong with its companion piece vs left wing economists, good place to start if one wants to dig deeper into what's (normatively, though probably only nominally...) right and wrong.

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The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS) � naked capitalism

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Wray: Krugman has shined the headlights on the crucial currency issuer-currency user difference � naked capitalismFrom an investing standpoint you have to get this one right. The bond vigilante paradigm has been false in Japan and now in the US as well. If you had seen rates in Japan at 2% and shorted them saying they would come up, you would have lost your shirt. Conversely, if one uses the

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-17614142124203155342011-12-16T17:29:00.000-07:002011-12-16T17:29:06.967-07:00

Talking Philosophy | Climate ethics: do equal shares still make sense?There is a growing sense that we might have passed over the point of no return...

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Human Rights and Belief in God - NYTimes.comTowards a secular ethics.

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The Blog : How to Meditate : Sam Harrisnot all contemplative paths kindle the same doubts or present the same liabilities. There are, in fact, many methods of meditation and “spiritual” inquiry that can greatly enhance our mental health while offering no affront to the intellect.

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100 Best Blogs for Econ Students | Online Universities WeblogAs an economics student, you have access to a great wealth of information online. One of the best places to find information online is in blogs, such as economics blogs written by educators, experts, and self-proclaimed know it alls. Here, you’ll find the 100 best blogs for economics students to read.

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Researchers: 100 Percent Green Energy Possible By 2050"There are no technological or economic barriers to converting the entire world to clean, renewable energy sources," said author Mark Jacobson, a Stanford professor, saying it is only a question of "whether we have the societal and political will."

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Why are We 'Irrational': The Path from Neoclassical to Behavioral Economics 2.0A little bit of evolutionary argument that behavioral illogic makes plenty of sense - we are heuristic beings, not optimizers.

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-59234405821906932442011-01-20T16:25:00.000-07:002011-01-20T16:25:27.840-07:00

Opinions | MeteuphoricI like Katja's approach. Perhaps I'll adopt similar style if I blog more

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Wordle - Beautiful Word Cloudsa toy for generating “word clouds”

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This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.ukexcellent satire on science writing.

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How to Form a Philosophy - wikiHowDeveloping a personal philosophy

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Edge: JONATHAN HAIDT: The New Science of MoralityHow to revive virtue ethics and get away from the systemization and non-empathy of the post-Enlightenment...

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Big Questions OnlineReasonably decent discussions of difficult issues.

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You Are Not So Smarta blog devoted to self delusion and irrational thinking. There’s a lot of research out there suggesting you have no idea why you act or think the way you do. It feels awful to accept such things, so you create narratives to explain your own feelings and behavior. Rationalizing, redacting and reinterpreting alters your memories, making something you experienced a few hours

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What Is a Philosopher? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.comthe philosopher is the person who has time or who takes time.

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Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.comThere are some ways to teach math that actually work.We should support these.

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Longform.orgActual reporting with analysis & synthesis!

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Technology Review: TR10 the 10 most important emerging technologies likely to change the world

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Ben Casnocha: The Blog: What Makes Something Interesting?Discussion plus links in comments. Meta ideas about "interestingness", "happiness", "wisdom vs intelligence". I intend to explore this link a bit more...

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The Technium: 1,000 True FansMicro success: all a creative needs are 1000 direct true fans to make a basic living.

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How to Solve a Rubik's Cube (Easy Move Notation) (with pictures) - wikiHowThis is the 30th anniversary of the cube! My dad loved to play with it and figured out a number of algorithms. This article has a guaranteed way to solve it that's fairly simple. It's not the fastest way but any cube can be solved by grinding it out by "layers"

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Climate Change - Building a Green Economy - NYTimes.comKrugman with a pretty long and good article on economics of climate change.

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Are We Zeroing In on the Hard Problem of Explaining Consciousness? | h MagazineConsciousness is the “hard problem” in mind science: explaining how the astonishing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity... [there is growing] evidence for the “global workspace theory,” and may also offer clues to the “hard problem” of how patterns of electrical activity give rise to our

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Konczal Current State of Financial Reform.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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Consumer Metrics Institute: Home of Daily Consumer Leading IndicatorsA pretty good indicator. Unfortunately you need to join in order get the "best" stuff.

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Rent capture through financial innovation | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists

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Randomness and God : The Frontal Cortex

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The Discovery of Global Warming - A HistoryMuch of what is known as well as acknowledgement of much of what is NOT known about global warming & related climate science.Bottom line: pretty scary.

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The Scientific Case for Modern Anthropogenic Global Warming - Monthly ReviewA reasonable essay on the science & models. I like the distillation into chunks with remarks on which are pretty well settled and which have significant room for scientific disagreement.

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Musical Predictions : The Frontal CortexThe act of listening, it turns out, is really an act of neural prediction.The model essentially demonstrated that statistical predictions based on our personal listening experience - because I listen to Bruce Springsteen, I'm able to predict the melodies of John Mellencamp - was much better at simulating the mind than a rule-based model, in which our

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Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video LecturesYes! If there are effective means to keep the content quality high, this could be a phenomenal site.

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t r u t h o u t | A Convenient DelusionThe failure of Copenhagen might be deadly.

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-3169678560380806762009-12-21T16:41:00.000-07:002009-12-21T16:41:13.371-07:00

How to Be Mindful - wikiHowA gentle intro to mindfulness.

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100 Awesome Open Lectures for Political MindsMIT and Johns Hopkins lectures. If you'd like to dive deeper into a topic than what you get from mainstream media or bloggers.

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Economist DebatesAn excellent forum for exploring complex issues. Moderated debates over extended periods (two weeks or so).

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-84931851601470554602009-11-23T22:17:00.000-07:002009-11-23T22:17:40.237-07:00

Free Kindle Books, Amazon Kindle Book, Amazon.com Books � Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, BooksSo, Kindle app on the iTouch. Free books. Way cool. Not enough time to read/see/do everything.

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Instacalc Online Calculator | Instant ResultsPhenomenally useful tool!

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-91794713286039250832009-11-21T22:37:00.000-07:002009-11-21T22:37:47.352-07:00

Brain-Like Chip May Solve Computers' Big Problem: Energy | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-23376741261964413382009-11-18T22:07:00.000-07:002009-11-18T22:07:38.474-07:00

Text analysis, wordcount, keyword density analyzer, prominence analysisAutomatic quantification of "readability".

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Schneier on Security: Beyond Security TheaterA great essay on the realities of terrorism and security.

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-14615322962181425322009-10-30T17:14:00.000-06:002009-10-30T17:14:45.874-06:00

Cell Size and ScaleOutstanding interactive chart on size & scale, from carbon atom up to coffee bean. Oriented towards cells & genetics, but way cool.

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-80510227513536144922009-10-27T16:20:00.000-06:002009-10-27T16:20:54.397-06:00

MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic EducatorsGood source for illustrative explanations of econ stuff, aimed at teachers but useful for many.

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-25926426645064001412009-10-14T17:08:00.000-06:002009-10-14T17:08:04.497-06:00

Supply-Side Economics, R.I.P. | Capital Gains and GamesBartlett should be mainstream, but conservatives are aghast.Here he describes and defends much of his thinking and points out Keynes (and FDRs!) essential conservatism. Keynes, in particular, was strongly anti-socialism. Macro economics appears to be in a very bad state - neoclassical & monetarists (and libertarians) are just wrong wrong

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-38625780953304661562009-10-14T08:40:00.000-06:002009-10-14T08:40:25.786-06:00

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”Rather insightful look at how "the Office" illustrates principles from Whyte's classic "The Organization Man",and effectively falsifies the bulk of management/business "theory".

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-40741672799371102202009-09-10T16:10:00.000-06:002009-09-10T16:10:23.031-06:00

The medical malpractice myth. - By Ezra Klein - Slate MagazineFrom 2006 - pretty comprehensive look at the issue. Turns out that runaway juries are not the problem. Doctors behaving badly are.Total cost of legal fees, insurance costs & awards estimated to be less than 0.5% of health care spending.Harvard study suggests that about 4% of all patients are injured by doctor/nurse/hospital

davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15784645115645573118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052096.post-21130554061049288862009-08-19T16:20:00.000-06:002009-08-19T16:20:13.470-06:00

Chris Martenson | chapters - The Crash Course - chapters, Crash Course, Economy, Energy, environment, Peak Oil, videosI don't agree with everything, but do agree with most - there is a lot about basic macroeconomics which most of us (including myself) don't know. And it's kind of scary.

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Money stuffI made myself a sqworl group on financial blogs...www.sqworl.com has the basic mechanism for creation.This is my core home page on financial commentary.Lots of good stuff. Sorry that Setser is no longer blogging, but it's great that he's putting his powers to work for good, not evil...

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Convert DVD to iPodOn the PC there are a myriad of crappy and hard to use freeware solutions and a smaller set of quasi-commercial solutions. Should just be "one touch" like with some Mac programs (e.g. visual hub...)DVD decrypter and Videora seem to work well. I had a little problem with Videora on Vista after using it for years on an XP machine...This page links to both as downloads and

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Start Playing Guitar Home PageBack on the music front... I've been enjoying the vicarious pleasure of fake music from RockBand. Seriously thinking about trying to make actual music. This site is pretty comprehensive, all the way from rent/buy? Acoustic/electric? Lessons of various sorts and sources for TAB and music books. Maintenance etc.

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Economagic: Economic Time Series Pagemore than 200,000 time series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. Though the greatest utility of this site is the vast number of economic time series, and the easily modified charts of that same data, an overlooked facility of great utility is the availability of Excel files for all series.

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Bank Loan PerformanceExcellent compilation of data & presentation in an interactive visual!

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Zero Hedge: A common sense guide to investingDon't agree with all of it, but it's a fabulous start. Perhaps I will work on writing my own version.

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Op-Ed Columnist - How to Raise Our I.Q. - NYTimes.comReporting on “Intelligence and How to Get It” by Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.Recent data suggest that IQ is less genetically determined than thought by conventional wisdom. Could be possible to develop programs which appear to have significant ability to increase IQ in early childhood.

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Wolfram|Alphawill be launching in May 2009. I am looking forward to it! Wolfram is a very bright guy, though his multi year frolic into cellular automata seems like it might have been a stretch... kind of like mastering Rubik's cube. Hard, fun, cool but ultimately not all that useful.

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A guide to the 100 best blogs - part I - Times OnlineBryan Appleyard's list.

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naked capitalism: Irving Fisher's Debt Deflation Theory and Its Relevance Today“Finally, I would emphasise the important corollary, of the debt-deflation theory, that great depressions are curable and preventable through reflation and stabilisation.”

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Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man - The List Universe

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Sense About ScienceGot questions? They got answers...

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The Cathedral and the BazaarThe manifesto explaining why open source software works.

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Entrepreneurship Corner: Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley.Lots of free podcasts & videos. There is some valuable info in and amongst this sea of data...

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DISQUS | Turn Blog Comments into a Webwide Discussion with a Powerful Comment SystemSince no one has ever left a comment on my blog, it's not immediately relevant. I've been impressed by it when I've run across, though, and would encourage blogs to consider it.

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Anderson Organizing SystemsNo idea if this is any good, but talks a good game. I am remarkably productive despite being massively unorganized... with some trepidation I'm considering engaging such a service. [why trepidation? perhaps I have comfort in my clutter...?]

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This American Life aired a one hour show in May 2008 on the subprime mess.

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The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies - New York TimesSubjective, of course, but a good place to start. Thereare a lot of bad movies. Also plenty of "genre" movies thatmight appeal. E.g. do you find the View Askew movies entertaining (anything with Jay & Silent Bob, like Clerks, or Dogma, or Chasing Amy...)? They aren't onthis list but that's ok.For genre films, the American Film

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The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC MagazineCurrent state of all the good stuff that you can get for free. Plenty of apps. I love Audacity!

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Many EyesOoh! Some very pretty visualization tools. Not sure yet whether it's easy to do useful viz, but pretty for certain.

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Accidental Wisdom: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!I am an Obama supporter. This site is clearly pro-Obama, but has links & citations to back up its points. It attempts to rebut many of the emails circulating, many of which make anti-Obama claims but without complete truthiness behind them...

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Calais - OverviewAll content, connected, semantically tagged...automagically adding semantic metadata.What kind of errors? Adaptation? I'm frankly rather intrigued by this...

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The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York TimesPhenomenal use of graphics to display information. In case you care about box office...I don't, particularly, but I do love innovation in visualization.

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Project Implicit�Pretty sophisticated methodology for teasing out true beliefs (as compared with self-reported & possibly delusional beliefs...)

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Caveman blues - Times OnlineWhy do we seem to "need" more stuff?Probably evolutionary...?

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The jumping hankerchief mouse at monkey see monkey doOK, is this really "best practice"? It sure is a fun little toy, making you popular with any kids you show this off to, especially if you are at an otherwise boring event with nice linen napkins...

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Lyrics Freak is my first stop.From Yahoo Song Lyrics on Yahoo! MusicAlso, look for Find Me a Tune orAll the Lyrics (go down to the forums for help in identifying a song from partial lyrics... users like to show off their knowledge!).And for automagic identification, check out Tunatic which,if your sound source is connected to the computer, will try to match what's playing to its database.

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MasterGuitarExpensive, but the rep is that this is the best guitar instruction course. I might buy it and try to make some music. Not sure I can commit the time right now, though... hence am holding off.

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wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or EditI reserved the site how2.ws a while back with the intentions of linking to a lot of how-to pages, but this wiki is pretty well done, and I think I'll let my domain lapse... could use perhaps some advanced search tools to wade through the tens of thousands of articles. Also, there are a few that seem to be advertising in disguise, but I

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Literature.org - The Online Literature LibraryThere is way too much to read, in general, but a lot of great works here, allin the public domain.

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World Database of HappinessAttempting to provide the definitive & comprehensive compilation of happiness studies...

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Eggcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSomehow these amuse me greatly.

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The Frontal Cortex : The Certainty BiasUncertainty -> FearReduce Fearthus Reduce Uncertainty

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The Gapminder World 2006, betaCool tool!

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Yet another quiz to help place you in the political spectrum. This one constructs a two dimensional space, with economic "left-right" on one axis, and "authoritarian-libertarian" on the other. I end up slightly left on economics and substantially, but not extremely, towards the libertarian end. Comrades appear to be Gandhi and the Dalai Lama...

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How The Iowa Process Works: Under chapter 42 of the Iowa Code, enacted in 1980, the Iowa legislature has the final responsibility for enacting both congressional and state legislative district plans. However, the nonpartisan Legislative Services Bureau starts the process. The Bureau must develop up to three plans that can be accepted or rejected by the legislature.The four criteria for the

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From the description:Philosophers have long sought to answer questions about who we are, where we come from and where we’re going. Stephan Chorover frets that a widening circle of contemporary scientists embrace Sigmund Freud’s approach to these questions, which is to say, “Biology is destiny.” Neuroscientists are promoting an even narrower dogma, says Chorover, where “everything we are trying to

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From a genius of human factors & design. Annotated recommendations.

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Interactive Statistical Calculation PagesInteractive statistical stuff. Can be used for learning, and also can be used for powerful work. I hope.

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Bull Moose

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Computer Help and Spyware Removallots of useful stuff to help fix annoying stuff

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A "new democratic progressive alliance". Perhaps the sensible left can come together. Still, as an anti-socialist liberal, I find some of this a bit too pink for my tastes. But agree with most.

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stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography siteWhew. hundreds of thousands of free "stock" photos. Hard to sift through but it's pretty amazing in the depth of content.

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Musipedia: The Open Music EncyclopediaFind a melody by humming it...

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SNOBOL, (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a language for text processing, pattern matching, and much more, first designed and implemented at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. (BTL) in the 1970's.I am considering using SNOBOL for modules in a chat bot implementation. Given that I have spent about 20 hours on this in the past year, it's not likely to be moving forward soon...

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Government Success StoriesSome anecdotes about government programs that work, and failures of the free markets. This is not a defense of socialism (it's claimed). The intention is to help find the line between government intervention and meddling...the proper role of government is to support and promote the free market, and prevent individuals within it from causing harm to society

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