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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Just a little more…just a little more…
Is there anything going wrong that isn’t aided and abetted by the “Shifting Baseline Syndrome” described so well in the essay below? I can’t think of anything, can you? If it isn’t an official Law of the Universe, it must … Continue reading
Just a Little More…
Paul Kedrosky has a fine essay up at the Edge World Question Center titled Shifting Baseline Syndrome. It is a one of many responses to the question: “What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit?”. Here is the (short) essay … Continue reading
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How Much? A LOT! A Million Bazillion Gazillion!
It’s all over the news that the government is spending billions and billions, and we owe China almost a trillion, and the national debt is $10 trillion, and Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is now at $2.5 trillion thanks to bailouts … Continue reading
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Football Time
From The Big Picture: Football and the 30 Second Advance Button By Barry Ritholtz – January 16th, 2011, 5:08PM I like watching football, but I cannot stand the way the games are televised. On the clock, you have 60 minutes … Continue reading
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Lizard Loaves and Fantasy Fishes
“…The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine … Continue reading
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‘Round Midnight on the Sphere
From Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/107/51/22356.abstract?sid=adda273f-6773-4b76-bb85-d812a94acae3 Consciousness of subjective time in the brain Lars Nyberga,b Alice S. N. Kimc, Reza Habibd, , Brian Levinec, and Endel Tulvingc,1 Departments of aIntegrative Medical Biology (Physiology) and bRadiation Sciences (Diagnostic Radiology), Umeå University, 90187 … Continue reading
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Lizard Time
Lizard Time is ever Now. Or, at least Now within a rounding error–a slightly fuzzy now. The lizard lives keenly in the moment. Reactions to present events are not inhibited by regrets over past errors or anxieties about the future. … Continue reading
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