Neuroscience (& Economics)
- The Blog : Thinking about Thinking : Sam Harris. Sam Harris inteviews Daniel Kahneman the author of the great new book Thinking Fast & Slow I’ve been highlighting my hardcover copy while I listen to it via an unabridged Audible.com edition I have.
Thinking about Thinking
Daniel Kahneman is an extraordinarily interesting thinker. As a psychologist, he received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work with Amos Tversky on decision-making. Here is what Steven Pinker, my previous interview subject, recently wrote about him: Daniel Kahneman is among the most influential psychologists in history and certainly the most important psychologist alive today.
Steven Pinker & And His New Book on Human Violence
- Peace, war, and evolution: My profile of Steven Pinker in tomorrow’s New York Times | The Loom | Discover Magazine
- Profiles in Science – Steven Pinker – Human Nature’s Pathologist – NYTimes.com
- Book’s statistics on violence are a reason for optimism | | The Bulletin
- I just ordered the book myself: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Climate & Climate Politics
- Climate myths: Jackson School sets the record straight « Know
- Short Sharp Science: No, global warming hasn’t stopped
- How it Works: Global Climate Change – Upper Moreland-Willow Grove, PA Patch
Politics — President Barak Obama
- Stephanie Cutter: It’s ‘tough,’ but Obama’s still fighting – Carrie Budoff Brown – POLITICO.com
- Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech in Heartland – NYTimes.com
- Full text of President Obama’s economic speech in Osawatomie, Kans. – The Washington Post
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Osawatomie Speech
- Robert Reich (The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency)
Politics — Newt Gingrich
- Fact check: Gingrich on climate change – USATODAY.com
- A Gingrich Presidential candidacy would guarantee an Obama re-election
- A Newt Gingrich Nomination Would Be a Gift to Barack Obama | Debate Club | US News Opinion
- Running Away From Gingrich « Alan Colmes’ Liberaland
- The GOP’s front-runners: Bad and worse – The Washington Post
- The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : My Radio Assessment of Gingrich’s Chances Against Obama
…For now, I really need to vent. I am absolutely flabbergasted at what I see in the latest Republican polls for president. What I see looks like a mass political suicide attempt — so determined to commit suicide that it uses too many pills, plus a slit wrist, plus a gun, on the ledge of a 1,000-foot building, just to make sure that at least one of the methods succeeds.
What I’m talking about is the rise of Newt Gingrich to the front of the Republican pack. If this isn’t mass suicide, is mass amnesia of a particularly dangerous variety. And, politically speaking, if it continues it will be an absolute guarantee of Barack Obama’s re-election next Fall…
- Harkin Says Obama “Silent Cheering” for Gingrich
- Daily Kos: ‘Silent Cheering’ for Gingrich the Heaven-Sent Nominee
- Quote of the Day: Newt Gingrich’s Immigration Gift to Barack Obama | The Moderate Voice
- Gingrich on the Separation of Church and State : EvolutionBlog
- Gingrich and Trump Announce Plan to Put Poor Kids to Work | Video Cafe
Politics
Sports
- Derek Boogaard – Blood on the Ice – NYTimes.com
- Alyssa Rosenberg weighs in on Why I Don’t Watch Men’s Hockey | ThinkProgress
Economics & The Economny
- Analyst: Shale gas a boost for economy » Local News » The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA
- Mandelbrot Beats Economics in Fathoming Markets: Mark Buchanan The author of this interesting article, Mark Buchanan, is the author of The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
- Robert Reich (The Rebirth of Social Darwinism)
- That Old Centrist Magic: Jonathan Stein Responds to Jonathan Chait « Corey Robin