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• A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 545
  Best of the Web: A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism Jeff Gates Criminal State Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:00 EST “ It’s very good….Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel) “. Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September ...
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• Illusions and personal decision-making

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 477
  Behavioral economist Dan Ariely uses classic visual illusions and his own research to show that we are often not in personal control of our own-decision-making. Outside factors often compel our decisions, even though we always insist that we are always in control or our choices. The organ donation and ibuprophen ...
  17 hours ago

• Peak oil denial diagnosed with neoclassical autism | Energy Bulletin

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 143
  Economists like to suggest that energy is like any other commodity, and that one energy form can be substituted for another. The term is "elasticity". But it shows they are lost in their equations and have no common sense. Obviously oil serves a different function than coal, but theyre both "energy". Hence if you ...
  3 days ago

• Money for Monogamy

  
  Economic Sociology — Authority: 99
  Another way of monetizing infidelity: these t-shirts seemed to crop up for sale online seconds after speculation began about Woods cheating on his wife. In all the public discourse surrounding Tiger Woods and his alleged infidelities, one of the primary topics of interest has been the millions of dollars he may ...
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• Chipping the web: December 4th

  
  Chip's Quips — Authority: 115
  Home Depot – So funny! – iBLOGthere4iM So true — I wish I hadnt just slid into a new category a couple of months ago. Tags: randymorin humor aging homedepot Edge: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD —  By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Masterful. Long, but well worth the read. Thanks, Erich ...
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• Wisdom from the Good Friar

  
  HarvestBoston — Authority: 404
  I’ve often struggled — both with myself and with non-religious friends — with the words to describe why I follow Jesus and, in effect, “blindly” accept all those crazy propositions about him. Born of a virgin. All the miracles. Resurrection. The rational part of my brain can’t wrap itself around many of ...
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• Hansonian Foreign Aid, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 697
  Bill Easterly and Laura Freschi point to a study showing that foreign aid increases happiness--for the donor countries. For the recipients, not so much. I have not read the study, but I doubt that I would find the research methods persuasive. Still, the conclusion is perfectly Hansonian. If the goal of foreign ...
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• The Future will not be Civil, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 697
  the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, ethnicities and races. That is Geoffrey Miller , who you may recall from my posts on his book Spent . His view is that people ...
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• How Arthur Lupia Changed My Mind, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 697
  Today the renowned political scientist Arthur Lupia visited GMU.  His mission : Attack the quality of academic research on voter competence.  His arguments changed my mind, but in the opposite of the intended direction.  Given Lupias intelligence, expertise, and effort, his presentation was shockingly weak.  ...
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• Podcast Teaser: Why rationality?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Dear readers, Rationally Speaking is soon going to be (also) a podcast, produced by  New York City Skeptics , and co-hosted by Julia Galef and yours truly. Before each (initially biweekly, starting at the end of January) episode we will publish a “teaser” like the one below, introducing the topic of that episode ...
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• What is science?

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 130
  It’s a perspective, it’s a way at getting at the truth, it’s critical thinking, and it needs protection: If you want to help protect it, participating in the Richard Dawkins Foundation fundraiser is a good way to start.
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• Can Obama Make Big Government Run Better?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Obama administration has mapped out an incredibly ambitious set of objectives: stimulate the economy; reform the health care system; save the planet; and combat terrorists. But all of this saving, stimulating, reforming, and combating is making government ever larger and more expensive. So another task looms ...
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• (Preventing) Manipulation Through Irrationality

  
  Lone Gunman — Authority: 557
  Through the theories discussed in Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational (and largely based on the excerpts in Chris Yeh’s outline of the book ), two articles have emerged on different sides of one topic: our irrational decision-making in terms of products and purchases. One on how to take advantage of our ...
  1 week ago

• Rational Benevolence Collaboratory, 5th meeting

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 438
  Start: Dec 3 2009 - 7:00pm End: Dec 3 2009 - 8:30pm Rational Benevolence Collaboratory, 5th meeting. The Rational Benevolence Collaboratory is an intellectual experiment in which researchers collaborate to deeply re-think our solutions to the problems of widespread suffering and scarce joy. Researchers ...
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• Reflecting on Erich Fromm’s “To Have or To Be”

  
  kansas reflections — Authority: 112
  Erich Fromm is an influential social philosopher and prolific writer, whose life work offers a provocative synthesis of Western capitalism, Marxist humanism and socialist rational planning. He defines two modes of being: “to have” and ” to be”, and examines the characteristics and values of lives led in each ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interview with Keith Stanovich

  
  Solution Focused Change? Doing What Works — Authority: 416
  By Coert VisserDr. Keith Stanovich, Professor of Human Development and Applied Psychology of the University of Toronto, is a leading expert on the psychology of reading and on rationality. His latest book, What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought, shows that IQ tests are very incomplete ...
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• Climate Research Unit email scandal

  
  The Lippard Blog — Authority: 117
  Hackers got access to a trove of private emails from the University of East Anglias Climate Research Unit that is being trumpeted by those who disbelieve in anthropogenic global warming as proof of scandal. My own look through the data (you can find a searchable archive of the emails here ) found a quite a few ...
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• Macro and the Organizational Capital Model, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 697
  Robert Shiller writes , Consider this possibility: after all these months, people start to think its time for the recession to end. The very thought begins to renew confidence, and some people start spending again -- in turn, generating visible signs of recovery. This may seem absurd, and is rarely mentioned as an ...
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• Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robert Greene on BloggingHeads.tv

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 537
  
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• Bounded Rationality, BI and Beyond

  
  Hexaware Blog Central — Authority: 111
  Herbert Alexander Simon , an American political scientist, economist, psychologist and professor, coined the term “ Bounded Rationality ”. Bounded Rationality is a concept which relates to the fact that the decision making capability of individuals is limited by the information that they have and the finite amount ...
  3 weeks ago

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