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The trouble with non-profits
In the 1990s, a group of psychologists began studying what made experts expert. Their first task was to see whether experts really were expert — whether they were particularly good at their jobs.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 318 posts.
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The British Government should apologize to Alan Turing
When I started writing The Geek Atlas there was one name that was getting in the book no matter what: Alan Turing . Alan Turing matters on ...
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The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality
My fearless readers are, no doubt, already familiar with the fact that I'm an American born and bred, but transplanted here to blighty to fa...
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Calorie restrictive eating for longer life? The story we didn’t hear in the news
Junkfood Science - truth about food and health
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How to destroy the earth
Preamble Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing...
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Freenode has blocked the Mibbit client permanently.
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.
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Planet Calacanis
I’ve seen a lot of people quoting and linking to Jason Calacanis’ recent article, The Case Against Apple—in Five Parts , in a positive light. But I can’t. It’s ridiculous.
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How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Transparency is Bunk
Adapted from an impromptu rant I gave to some people interested in funding government transparency projects.
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Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan
Minimum steps necessary to give business investors confidence in the United States
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Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me
This is a personal story. I have never shared much of this. I am a regular blogger, but this felt too personal to write as myself. I neede...
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In which I stomp on some of our glorious “green shoots”
These are apparently America’s top under-25 entrepreneurs. Allow me to summarize: they are: A guy who rents airplanes to wealthy bored people. Not a bad idea, but … being the Avis of av…
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Eric Raymond on "Hiding the Decline, Part 1"
From the CRU code file osborn-tree6/briffa_sep98_d.pro , used to prepare a graph purported to be of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and reconstructions.
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A critique of The Black Swan
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