Tag Archives: fear

Darwin and experimental analysis of the behavior of markets

Please run this blog through the Baloney Detection Kit that was published here in the last 90 days. I recommend you do it for every media byte but, a guy off the streets writing about our global financial crisis may … Continue reading

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Dr. Lowery’s Presidential Words

Dr. Joseph E. Lowery’s Benediction Transcript @ President Obama’s Inauguration Can there be any question of the power of words? Can there be any mystery why the sophisticated symbolism of words binds people to… Others Ideals Fear Anger Dogma Superstition … Continue reading

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CNN captures Absurdity on a page…

I wonder if I can break from the flow in this blog to posit a response on the CNN article… When any argument used results in the personification of the brain as an entity that ‘does’ things, the value of … Continue reading

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Pseudo-Scientists ask: Is digital media rewiring our brains?

Actually this is a provocative title to get parents and teachers to read online crap. Kinda ironical, don’t you think… it is supposed to sound like concerns from worried parents. One brain scientist at UCLA, Gary Small, a psychiatrist, argues … Continue reading

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There WILL be more bailouts! WE ARE RUDDERLESS!

Come-on people…it is gut-check time!!! You want a republic to be proud of? Now’s the time to find you spine. We got the government we worked to get. Right, none of us worked hard enough and this is what laziness … Continue reading

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Identifying what we value and what we fear

On any given day in the US in 2008 an average of about 148,000 people will die. Yawn. As the population swells it will grow larger. Yawn. As the population struggles with food, water, disease, contamination and war, those numbers … Continue reading

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