The Cultures

Oct 26, 2014

• Why We Keep Playing the Lottery
• What Makes For a Stable Marriage? (original paper)
• Rebuttals of the 10,000 Hours Thesis: BBC News article, Ericsson's reply (Word Doc)

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Oct 19, 2014

• Louise Mensch and Fat Pride
• The deficiencies in using the word "child" to fit such a wide age range
• Dunbar numbers, social networks, and the limits of friendship online

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Oct 12, 2014

• Why are societies and institutions always so stupid in popular fiction? (David Brin's article, Our Favorite Cliche: A World Filled With Idiots)
• Connoisseurship vs. Galiliean repeatable experimentation (PDF paper on Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method by Carlo Ginzburg and Anna...

Oct 5, 2014

• X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the stories of how persecuted minorities respond to persecution
• The Death of Adulthood
• Discuss: "The internet was a different, more strange and magical place in the past"

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