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How your friends' friends can affect your mood - life - 30 December 2008 - New Scientist
Recent research shows that our moods are far more strongly influenced by those around us than we tend to think.
The Truth about the VT Shooting
In 2005, the English department at VT had targeted another student, Joe Newbury, reached a consensus that he was dangerous, and turned him over to campus police and mental-health authorities. The similarities between Newbury’s case and Cho’s are startling. This is his account.
Two logical fallacies that we must avoid | Psychology Today Blogs
It is not possible to make either the naturalistic or the moralistic fallacy if scientists never talk about ought. Scientists – real scientists – do not draw moral conclusions and implications from the empirical observations they make, and they are not guided in their observations by moral and political principles. Real scientists only care about what is, and do not at all care about what ought to be.
Steven Bigby: One boy's history of violence - Times Online
This young man was both victim and villain when he was stabbed to death in London’s West End in May. Ed Caesar investigates the life and crimes of Steven Bigby
The Value Of Science - By Richard P. Feynman
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.
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When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a
problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is,
he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is
going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount
importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and
leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of
varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none
absolutely certain.
Cities and Ambition
Hipness is another thing you wouldn't have seen on the list 100 years ago. Or wouldn't you? What it means is to know what's what. So maybe it has simply replaced the component of social class that consisted of being "au fait." That could explain why hipness seems particularly admired in London: it's version 2 of the traditional English delight in obscure codes that only insiders understand.
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Hipness is another thing you wouldn't have seen on the list 100
years ago. Or wouldn't you? What it means is to know what's what.
So maybe it has simply replaced the component of social class that
consisted of being "au fait." That could explain why hipness seems
particularly admired in London: it's version 2 of the traditional
English delight in obscure codes that only insiders understand.
Charlie Brooker: The Dead Parrot Defence used to be just farcical. Now that killers are using it things are getting serious | Comment is free | The Guardian
Until recently, Dead Parrot Defences have been the farcical preserve of adulterers hiding in cupboards and schoolkids whose dog ate their homework. But now things are getting serious. Recently, a spate of ridiculous alibis put forward by desperate murdere
EveryBlock: A news feed for your block.
This is what the delicious redesign should have looked like. It's not too late to get on the phone to Wilson Miner...
Why people believe weird things about money - Los Angeles Times
"I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine" only works if I know you will respond with something approaching parity. The moral sense of fairness is hard-wired into our brains and is an emotion shared by most people and primates tested for it, includin
Kate and Gerry McCann: Beyond the smears - Times Online
A very modern tale of police incompetence and journalism that fails to rise above malicious gossip - all aided and abetted by a general public incapable of critical-thinking.
What Makes Us Moral - TIME
The deepest foundation on which morality is built is the phenomenon of empathy, the understanding that what hurts me would feel the same way to you. And human ego notwithstanding, it's a quality other species share.
The Open Rights Group
The Open Rights Group is an independent, non-profit advocacy group, campaigning for the digital civil rights of British citizens.
Race, genes, and intelligence. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
Evidence for and against a genetic theory of racial differences in IQ.
Charles Darwin: Religious belief
By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is suppoted, -- that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, -- that the me
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