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• Can Reality Set Us Free? The Puzzle of Complementarity (Part 3)

  
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  By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts ...
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• Introduction to your microbiome

  
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  From the NYT –most of the cells that comprise you do not contain your DNA: I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on March 7. That’s when I opened my e-mail to find a ...
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• Casey Luskin and Stephen C. Meyer discuss information outside the genome

  
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  This episode of ID the Future is 20 minutes long and it’s a follow up to a previous podcast I posted. Details: On this episode of  ID the Future , hear the second part of Casey Luskin’s interview with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, author of the forthcoming book  Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal ...
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• The Importance of Clear Communications

  
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  A funny thing happened the other day while having a snack in a Paris bakery. I am here for a few days, tagging along with my husband who is teaching for a month. Shortly after we sat down, a Japanese family arrived, went to the counter and asked in English for a sandwich to be heated before serving. As the woman at ...
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• Words, words — what’s a bunch of Wordsworth?

  
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  [ by Charles Cameron -- bemused again, "jihad" (the word) in the news, "big data" too, plus Google expecting Mahdi ] . I suppose I should be glad — or should I? — that the word jihad is now in the news. It’s about time. Jihad (the word, the concept, the interpretations) should have been in the ...
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• Quotation of the Day…

  
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  … is from pages 224-225 of Milton Friedman’s and Daniel Boorstin’s 1951 or 1952 essay, “How to plan and pay for the safe and adequate highways we need” – an essay that was lost for decades until one of these authors found the original in 1988; it wasn’t published until it appeared as the Epilogue in ...
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• Book Review: Why Reforming the NHS Doesn’t Work – The importance of understanding how good people offer bad care

  
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  A few weeks ago I was asked to write a brief book review. The book was by Valerie Isles and takes an intelligent and nuanced view of chang e management in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Many books forget how change management affects the patient, this book doesn’t. With this in mind I thought it might ...
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• VIDEO: Doug Axe on making odds on getting to a protein by chance in Amino Acid sequence space

  
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  In Illustra Media’s Darwin’s Dilemma, there is a clip on proteins as islands of function in amino acid sequence space: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Food for thought. As a stimulus to such, let us next note how the bloggist Wintery Knight ...
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• leadership in the chaordic age

  
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  Ron Martoia was asked in an interview in 2003, “What do you see as the two biggest problems facing leaders in the emerging church?” “The first thing is lack of maps and few cartographers. Our modernist moorings, where being seminar junkies and bookaholics was rewarded with the right answers for our analytical ...
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• Stephen C. Meyer and Peter Atkins debate intelligent design

  
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  This dialog occurred in 2010 on the Unbelievable radio show. I made a rough transcript, so please see below for that. The MP3 file is here . (60 minutes) Details: The documentary film “Expelled” is presented by US Actor Ben Stein and makes the case that scientists who question Darwinian orthodoxy and support ...
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• Quotation of the Day…

  
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  … is from page 171 of Don Lavoie’s 1985 book,  Rivalry and Central Planning : The basic problem is whether the manager will have at his disposal the requisite knowledge when he does not face competitive rivals who are trying to outbid him for resources.  He may sincerely want to produce at minimum cost but ...
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• Big Data Needs a Big Theory to Go with It

  
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  The post Big Data Needs a Big Theory to Go with It appeared first on Innovation Toronto. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Quotation of the Day…

  
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  … is from page 328 of Randy Simmons’s 2011 Revised Edition of his and the late William Mitchell’s superb 1994 book on public choice,  Beyond Politics : When I argue for markets I am rejecting one-size-fits-all solutions to perceived problems.  I am rejecting centralized, expert rule because experts never ...
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• A Studies on Analysis of Autocratic and Democratic Leadership Styles in the Contingency Mode

  
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  A Studies about Analysis of Autocratic and Democratic Leadership Styles in the Contingency Mode Abstract: This thesis examined measures of group efficacy under opposing leadership styles in both the presence and absence of time pressure. Previous research revealed that time pressure increases a task’s complexity, ...
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• Jason Richwine’s Dismissal from Heritage

  
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  I don’t know all of the facts behind Jason Richwine’s resignation (or, perhaps, “resignation”) from the Heritage Foundation , so I’ll content myself simply to expressing agreement with Bryan Caplan’s take : In a just world, no researcher would be fired for  truthfully stating that some kinds of ...
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• Everyday sexism of the subtler kind

  
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  How does sexism and suchlike become invisibly ingrained in our society? Answer: whenever said sexism is promoted as ‘progressive thinking’… To many people, the term ‘sexism’ applies only to gender-imbalance that directly affects women: yet a few moments thought should make it clear that that assertion is in ...
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• Gertrude Kasebier and Fatimah Tuggar explore new ways of conceptualizing reality at the University of Delaware Museums

  
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  —Maeve’s trip to Newark, DE, unearths two interesting exhibits on the campus of the state’s big university.–the artblog editors —————->A treasure often enjoyed exclusively by University of Delaware staff and students, the  UD Museums offer an enriching selection of diverse, well-curated ...
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• Future trends in mobile

  
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  My (Alan Moore) keynote on how our societies, organisations, cities, lives and economies are being dramatically reshaped through mobile communications, based on my book No Straight Lines .    As Kevin Kelly asked, what does technology want? And he answers, it wants what we want. The point being there is a deep ...
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• SAFE to FAIL – Knowledge Ecology Workshop offer

  
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  In circumstances of uncertainty you need to carry out many “ safe to fail ” interventions or experiments (see Dave Snowden & uses of the cynefin framework ). As an accredited practitioner and  member of the Cognitive Edge community  I realised that we never seem to offer such “ safe to fail ” options ...
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• Acknowledgement of mind as body in the classroom--a zine about emotional and behavioral disorders at school

  
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