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- Daily Kos: Pat Robertson gears up, reluctantly, for the War on Christmas
Yes! It’s that time of year—the time when all good Christians put up the lights, pick out a tree, and whine for a month and a half straight about how goddamn persecuted they’re going to be any minute now, just you wait. Pat Robertson, take it away:
- Daily Kos: Rev. Franklin Graham thinks God may have to ruin our economy because Obama was reelected
About the New Book by Nassim Taleb
Nassim Taleb (Wikipedia) the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable has written a new book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. The links that follow are to some of the commentary and Taleb’s response to one of the reviewers.
- Whatever the weather – FT.com
- Antifragile: How to make an unstable world strong – opinion – 23 November 2012 – New Scientist
- Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review | Books | The Guardian
- Taleb’s response to The Guardian: Letter to the Editor of the Guardian Book Review Section
- Nassim Taleb’s Anti-Fragility – YouTube
- Learning to Love Volatility: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Antifragile – WSJ.com
- How Uncertainty Makes Us Stronger | IdeaFeed | Big Think
- Randomness, probability and uncertainty: Stress best | The Economist
- Black Swans and Turkeys – CNBC
- Is Nate Silver’s value at risk? | The Daily Caller
- Randomness, probability and uncertainty: Stress best | The Economist