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Making Business Ethics a Cumulative Science
Such is the goal of Jonathan Haidt and Linda Trevino in a recent Nature article. “Imagine a world,” they write, in which medical researchers did experiments on rats, but never on people…
Natural “Narrative Selection” Was the Key to Success for our Species | Big Think
Natural “narrative selection” was key to turning insignificant apes (who had tools for 2 million years) into the species that now dominates the bio-sphere.
Source: Natural “Narrative Selection” Was the Key to Success for our Species | Big Think
2019-04-13 update:
I wish had pulled better summaries back when. This basically says that the thing that makes humans dominant on the planet is our ability to cooperate on massive scales. Every day you read about stupid people killing each other remember that approximately 7.5 billion humans didn’t kill anyone that day. I wonder if this article from March 2017 was the first time I encountered that idea? I doubt it. Nonzero by Robert Wright has to cover that and I read it back in 2005-ish.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why We Have Dysfunctional Politicians | Big Think
Astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals if he’d run for President and what he would do if elected.
Source: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why We Have Dysfunctional Politicians | Big Think
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
— Joseph de Maistre
This is the fundamental problem. American education sucks and the majority of Americans are idiots as a result. They haven’t been taught how to learn, only how to memorize. So now they all bitch about congress and then vote to re-elect the same assholes.
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Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World
This makes me happy. It’s a college course on bullshit detection. Now if we can just make it mandatory for every grade from K through 12 the citizens might stand a chance against the politicians and the corporations that own them.
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Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math | Open Culture
Should we teach philosophy to children? You’d have a hard time, I imagine, convincing many readers of this site that we shouldn’t. But why?
YES! Everyone should graduate high school with the equivalent of an AA in Philosophy. How can we expect people to know how to think when we don’t teach them?
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Hearing Aids
Hearing Aid Forums is offline, bummer. Seems to be quite a bit of info here though.
Source: Hearing Aids Knowledge Base
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iHear Medical – hearing aids you can adjust at home
Know idea if these are any good but $600 for a pair plus a $99 “test kit” (and $49 software or is that in the kit?) is still under half the price of the ones I got from Costco. I’m pretty happy with those and with Costco’s free adjustments, but the ability to tweak as needed would be really nice.
http://ihearmedical.com/
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50 Things You Can Control Right Now
You can expel all your energy on things you can’t control or use it to create positive change in your life. Here are 50 ways to start right now.
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Playing with syntax highlighter
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int Gi1/0/1 switchport access vlan 5000 desc Bob's your uncle
some more text down here
Hey look, it’s a plugin for making code and config snippets pretty.
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