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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]
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A recent Scientific American reviews of “Rethinking Expertise” by Harry Collins and Robert Evans got me thinking about the problem of “experts” and expert advice.
From the review:
This slim book by Harry Collins and Robert Evans offers a conceptual typology of “expertises.” The authors invent a plural form of the word to suggest that more [...]
Not really sure what to think about this. A Danish Muslim girls magazine is running a competition for “Miss Headscarf”. The winner will be featured as a cover girl.
On the one hand I am all for efforts to normalise headscarves and show tolerance for people’s choices of dress ( I mean where is the outrage [...]
Ray Kurzweil’s has a plan for upgrading the “suboptimal software” in your brain . From the New York Times:
Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions? Have faith. [...]
This post is a about Michael Totten’s report “A Dark Corner of Europe” Part 1. You need to read this article for this post to make sense. Michael Totten’s article is mostly very good article, and I, perhaps unfairly, am focussing only on the negatives here.
Michael Totten is a great independent journalist who I [...]
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Superb post from Positivity Blog on the Wisdom Of Bruce Lee. Sake sure you see the full post for links to resources and discussion. Here is a summary:
1. What are you really thinking about today? - “As you think, so shall you become.”
2. Simplify. - “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away [...]
A wonderful resource from Robotwisdom on romantic love:
Here are several thousand quotes about romantic love, set within an analysis of the normal course it takes:
* Wishing (and loneliness)
* Seeking (includes dating-advice genre)
* Hoping (the symptoms of love)
* Planning (the best intentions)
* Weighing (is this match plausible?)
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Moon River alerted me to something by The Nonist on Flâneurs:
This is a map by de Lauwe of all the movements made during one year by a student living in the 16th Arrondissement of Paris. Her itinerary forms a small triangle with no significant deviations, the three apexes of which are the School of [...]
The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits.
When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed.
I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly.
See or example:
Immigration sophistry debunked…again
The [...]
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Dr Mega (left) and Stephen Schwartz (right), paid shills or merely educated bigots?
Have agents of Serbia’s Radical Party or perhaps renegade elements of the Serbian Intelligence Service successfully penetrated the US right-wing media establishment to conduct False Flag Operations against legitimate critics of Serbia?
Sometimes it seems that way.
It appears that someone is successfully seeding [...]