Interesting reads, part 4. Today: from Small Talk to Smart Conversation; Criticizing with kindness; the Big Data fallacy; Rational Ignorance; how economics failed; Einstein on Socialism; US military vs. climate change; future forms of government; youths these days; the utility of literature; Discordianism; tolerance; Oceanography; intelligence failures, then and now How to Turn Small Talk into Smart Conversation ideas.ted/2014/07/28/how-to-turn-small-talk-into-smart-conversation/ How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/ Big data: are we making a big mistake? ft/intl/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xWyzPceT Rational Ignorance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance Krugman ~ How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? nytimes/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& Albert Einstein (1949) ~ Why Socialism? monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/ U.S. Military May Be the Strongest Force in Battle Against Climate Change huffingtonpost/ryan-rafaty/us-military-climate-change_b_5577959.html 12 Futuristic Forms of Government that Could One Day Rule the World io9/12-futuristic-forms-of-government-that-could-one-day-ru-1589833046 Today’s young people are held to be alienated, unhappy, violent failures. They are proving anything but economist/news/briefing/21606795-todays-young-people-are-held-be-alienated-unhappy-violent-failures-they-are-proving?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/pe/ohyouprettythings Should Literature be Useful? newyorker/books/page-turner/should-literature-be-useful Discordianism: The Greatest Fake Religion of All Time io9/the-greatest-fake-religion-of-all-time-1622095459 (Dutch) Waarom ik tegen het tolereren van homos ben ** https://decorrespondent.nl/1544/Waarom-ik-tegen-het-tolereren-van-homos-ben-/117594294752-6b4cd6bf Olbers Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers_paradox Should We Be Exploring The Oceans Instead Of Space? io9/should-we-be-exploring-the-oceans-instead-of-space-1619346783 CIA Analysis of the War of 1812 Finds Same Failures that Led to 9/11 io9/cia-analysis-of-the-war-of-1812-finds-same-failures-tha-1620296445 ** dont comment on the title alone; please read first
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