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POPSBlink? Not so fast - Why your intuition may be wrong and addictive! Even well respected thinkers and professionals can fall victim to the feeling of being certain, even when there is direct evidence they are wrong. Interesting article on how the feeling of certainty has biological underpinnings that can make it as addictive as drugs. Seems to build on some of the work Kahneman and Tversky did on thinking errors like Self-serving, Expectation , and Wishful Thinking biases.
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POPSInsurance Quotes Insurance quotes online. It's where I work, wanted to see if it captured it correctly! ;)
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POPSWelfare plan 'may cause poverty' Apparently it's fine to give the top end government handouts, but single parents are apparently expected to make their own way in a time of job cuts and economic depression.
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POPSThe new, free speech, gatekeepers "Given their clashing and sometimes self-contradictory missions — to obey local laws, repressive or not, and to ensure that information knows no bounds; to do no evil and to be everywhere in a sometimes evil world — Wong and her colleagues at Google seem to be working impressively to put the company’s long-term commitment to free expression above its short-term financial interests. But they won’t be at Google forever, and if history is any guide, they may eventually be replaced with lawyers who are more concerned about corporate profits than about free expression. “We’re at the dawn of a new technology,” Walker told me, referring not simply to Google but also to the many different ways we now interact online. “And when people try to come up with the best metaphors to describe it, all the metaphors run out. We’ve built this spaceship, but we really don’t know where it will take us.”
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POPSLeading US Infant Baby Formula is poisoned A safe tolerance level for any poison that is intentionally put into food, makes as much sense as allowing people to inflict harm on eachother without restriction. Maybe someone should go around poking needles into strangers, cutting babies with razors... no long term effects after all, right? Has the FDA lost its direction.... AGAIN? Maybe they will blame this on "tomatoes" as well.
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POPSThe Church backs Boris over amnesty for migrants It is too easy to dismiss Boris Johnson's call for an amnesty as naive. Amnesties are only one tool to use to deal with significant numbers of migrants who have been made vulnerable by the immigration system. It is more naive to think that it is possible to continue with current policy."
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POPSMaurice Cotterell: Secrets of the Super Gods In 1989 engineer and scientist Maurice Cotterell found a way of calculating the duration of long-term magnetic reversals on the Sun. Using this knowledge he was able to break the codes of ancient sun-worshipping civilizations, first the Mayas of Central America, those of Tutankhamen, of Egypt, and Viracocha of South America, before cracking the codes of the Terracotta Warriors of China.
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POPSDeep brain stimulation induces vivid memories In addition, this incident reaffirms a suspicion I’ve had about the brain and its ability to store memories. I’ve often thought that the brain does an excellent job recording and storing memories, but that our recall mechanisms are disturbingly weak and highly selective. Our long-term associations with memories are frequently diminished (e.g. some of our more painful memories are often exaggerated, distorted or suppressed). What this incident with DBS suggests is that our memories are beautifully preserved in our brains. We just lack the recall linkages and cognitive mechanisms to bring those memories back in any kind of detail. Our memories are accessed as fleeting bits of information instead of linear experiences.
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POPSParalyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant So they knew his brain's speech centers were still functioning. They just needed a way to connect those speech centers to a speech synthesizer - an artificial mouth if you will. Researchers implanted a special kind of electrode in his brain, one that's "impregnated with neurotrophic factors" that encourage brain neurons to grow into and around the electrode. Essentially this electrode forms a very strong connection with brain neurons, which results in a strong signal that reliably comes from the same part of the patient's brain over time. Over a period of weeks, Guenther and his team worked to decode the signals coming from the man's brain. Eventually, he was able "to produce three vowel sounds with good accuracy," said Guenther. The man produces these sounds as quickly as he would normal speech, and Guenther added, "The long-term goal within five years is to have him use the speech brain–computer interface to produce words directly."
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POPSWarren Buffett's Q3 Moves Seems like he thinks U.S. automakers and retailrs are in for a long slump even though his public pronouncements elsewhere have been long term bullish on U.S. equities.
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POPSPelosi and Reid Tell Detroit What They Want Democratic leaders outline specifically what they want GM, Chrysler, and Ford to include in their plans for viability and accountability, if they are to receive taxpayer money for emergency assistance. The Big Three are expected to reply to Congress by Dec. 2.
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POPSResearch and no simple answers to Climate change The flow on effects to fisheries and emissions from desalination plants may be counter productive with out a proper look a long term effects on the environmental impacts from what a first might seem a sensible solution to in end have been self defeating waste of taxpayer dollars.
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POPS11 Public Transit Agencies Pleaded With Congress For Bailout And the banks were able to rely on frequent lease payments while writing off taxes on the depreciating property. The IRS ended such leasing arrangements in 2004 and is pressuring banks to stop the tax shelters by the end of the year. Metro, the Washington area’s transit system, agreed last week with a bank immediately seeking $43 million from one such financing deal following talks overseen by a federal judge. Terms were not disclosed on the judge’s instructions. Metro general manager John Catoe noted Tuesday that Metro still faces 14 similar financing deals. He said having to settle all of them in court would lead to hefty legal costs and other expenses. The other three agencies seeking government help are in Sacramento and San Jose in California and New Jersey Transit.
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