Richard Dawkins and ICanHazCheezburger creator in the same segment? Gotta love NPR.
NPR Can Haz Memes
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adactio / collective
There are twelve people in adactio’s collective.
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Skeptoid #221: The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the world’s most widely used psychological metric. But does it really have any psychological value, or is it little more than a horoscope?
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Niall Ferguson: Empires on the Edge of Chaos
The Centre for Independent Studies 2010 John Bonython Lecture with Niall Ferguson. Is the rise and fall of empires cyclical or arrhythmic? How does economic profligacy - whether the result of arrogance or naivety - contribute to the downfall of civilisations? Today Professor Ferguson will argue that great powers or empires are in the strict sense of the word, complex systems. Made up of very large numbers of interacting components that are quite asymmetrically organised. In other words, he continues, their construction more resembles a termite hill than an Egyptian pyramid. They operate somewhere between order and disorder. Moreover imperial falls are nearly always associated with fiscal crises, when there are dramatic imbalances between revenues and expenditures. Thus alarm bells should be ringing in Washington DC but what does that for mean for Australia?
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Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
Why are so many experts so wrong, yet people keep listening to them? Who really is worth listening to about the future? The author of Expert Political Judgement builds on Isaah Berlin’s characterization of judgment modes into Hedgehogs (who know one big thing) and Foxes (who know many things). Hedgehogs don’t notice and don’t care when they’re wrong; that’s why they’re so compelling. Foxes learn.
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The Science and Function of Dreams
We close our eyes at night and dream. Sometimes beautifully, sometimes fitfully, sometimes frighteningly. But why?
The ancients looked for omens. Sigmund Freud saw clues from our past. Some researchers now say dreams help us brace for the future. Ben Franklin advised a light supper, clean sheets, fresh air, and as little dreaming as possible — to avoid painful dreams.
And what about nightmares? Can we, should we, rewrite them? We spend a lot of our lives dreaming. What’s it all about?
Tagged with dreams neuroscience sleep sleeping nightmares culture on point
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Lightspeed Magazine: More Than The Sum Of His Parts by Joe Haldeman : SFFaudio
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Dan Arieli in the Broadcast Univerity in Hebrew, Chapter 1
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Dan Ariely in the the Broadcast University in Hebrew, Chaper 2
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Skeptoid #220: Yonaguni Monument: The Japanese Atlantis
from Skeptoid Yonaguni Monument is a great fractured sandstone feature off the coast of Japan, said by some to have been built by human hands. Skeptoid takes a look at the evidence for, and the evidence against.
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Robert Krulwich - Tell Me a Story
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