- Talkoot: ‘a Finnish expression for a gathering of friends and neighbors to accomplish a task’
- Johann Hari: Protest works. Just look at the proof
- Plague Immunity Gene Stops HIV Aids
- The future of scientific publishing: Open post-publication peer review
- Israeli airport security puts faith in behavioural profiling.
- Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks
- ‘The science of mind is one of the most important intellectual developments in the last half century. It should not be obscured by neurobabble.’
- Tom Waits’ Raindogs and photos from Cafe Lehmitz
- A real Good Samaritan (pre rail privatisation version)
- Roy Baumeister: Do conscious thoughts cause behaviour?
- Causal density and the limits of experimental science: What Social Science Does–and Doesn’t–Know by Jim Manzi, City Journal Summer 2010
- ‘In 1974 we were living in a society with an enfeebled wealthy, and we didn’t know it.’
- Failure to replicate ‘paradox of choice’ experiments
- ‘Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence….Creating new people is thus morally problematic.’
- The New Yorker: The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method : ‘When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe’
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