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Thursday May 31, 2007
Wednesday May 30, 2007
Tuesday May 29, 2007
Atheists with Attitude
The recent spate of atheist authors [Christopher Hitchens et al] are gently deconstructed ("if man is wicked enough to have invented religion for himself he is surely wicked enough to have found alternative ways of making mischief"). ¶
Thursday May 24, 2007
Wednesday May 23, 2007
Friday May 18, 2007
Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses
People tend to base risk analysis more on personal story than on data, despite the old joke that "the plural of anecdote is not data"... We generally give stories more weight than statistics. We give storytellers we have a relationship with more credibility than strangers, and stories that are close to us more weight than stories from foreign lands. ¶
Thursday May 17, 2007
Saturday May 12, 2007
Thursday May 10, 2007
Wednesday May 09, 2007
Tuesday May 08, 2007
Friday May 04, 2007
Wednesday May 02, 2007
