“These studies tell us something profound and perhaps a bit disturbing about what makes us who we are: there isn’t a single version of ‘you’. It’s comforting to believe that there’s an essential version of each of us, that good…
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Book Report: Drunk Tank Pink
Tagged with: Adam Alter, Drunk Tank Pink, influence, labels, maps, naming, social psychology, symbols, xenophobia
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Book Report: What Should We Be Worried About
“In all sorts of complex systems, this is the general trend: Increasing the coupling between the parts seems harmless enough at first. But then, abruptly, when the coupling crosses a critical value everything changes. The exact nature of the altered state…
Tagged with: Adam Alter, Alison Gopnik, Amanda Gefter, Amos Tversky, Andrian Kreye, Antony Garret Lisi, Brian Eno, Brian Knutson, Carlo Rovelli, Dan Sperber, Daniel Kahneman, David Bodanis, Douglas T. Kenrick, Eric R. Weinstein, Evgeny Morozov, Haim Harari, James J. O'Donnell, Karl Sabbagh, Kirsten Bomblies, Leo M. Chalupa, Margaret Levi, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Neil Gershenfeld, Paul Saffo, Peter Schwartz, Randolph Nesse, Roger Highfeld, Satyajit Das, Stephon H. Alexander, Steven Pinker, Steven Strogatz, Tania Lombrozo, Tim O'Reilly, Timo Hannay, Timothy Taylor, worries
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Posted in Books, Everything, Finance, Math and Science
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