Innumeracy's John Allen Paulos on credulity and love
A great post from 3quarksdaily (Feb. 2008) about the human desire to believe in something, even a fraud. Context: Paulos has put together a book debunking probabilistic arguments for God's existence. The clip doesn't do it justice -- RTWT ("read the whole
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A great post from 3quarksdaily (Feb. 2008) about the human desire to believe in something, even a fraud. Context: Paulos has put together a book debunking probabilistic arguments for God's existence. The clip doesn't do it justice -- RTWT ("read the whole
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The Future of Science is Open, Part 1: Open Access - 3quarksdaily
I've never had an idea that couldn't be improved by sharing it with as many people as possible -- and I don't think anyone else has, either.
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The Future of Science is Open, Part 2: Open Science - 3quarksdaily
Open standards and open licensing might not be fundamental to the practice of Open Science, but both make possible such vast increases in efficiency that I would argue for their inclusion...
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