November 2010
20 posts
“Don’t tell my publishers, but as soon as I see a book of mine in the...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( Facebook)
Psychologists on Twitter (BPS Research Digest) →
psychotherapy:
Psychologists (and a few stray neuroscientists) on Twitter, listed in order of number of followers.
Why are parapsychologists in this list??
An infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar.
partspermillion:
The first one orders a pint, the second one a half pint, the third one a quarter pint… “I understand”, says the bartender - and pours two pints.
“You can know how satisfied somebody is with their life, and that really...”
– Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Video on TED.com
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Dinosaurs in the Bible
My friend Zach protested that religious ultraconservatives take the Bible literally, but often reference the dinosaur age, ‘which the Bible doesn’t mention’. Clearly, he doesn’t have the right edition! (This is understandable, since he was brought up Jewish.) Recent scholarship and improving translation has brought some critical evidence of dinosaurs to light. Here is an...
“If Radio 4’s “Today” show goes off the air for the BBC strike,...”
– Ben Margulies on FB
“Sleep is for people who haven’t made terrible life choices.”
– Brittney Gibbons
“A tourist is someone who follows commodified, commercialized & simplified...”
– Nassim Taleb on Facebook
people who like people who like books
Commenter: books are more interesting than people, avoid people, read more books :)
NNT: I prefer the company of people who like people who like books to books.
“Ask anyone the antonym of fragility, they will answer robustness. Wrong -and...”
– Nassim Taleb. Read the rest of note #137 “The Science of Antifragility, an Ignored Ubiquitous Concept in his philosophical notebook, “Opacity”.