Interesting Links for 12-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• The King of Human Error - a fascinating piece on the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who showed how irrational people are.
  (tags: psychology danielkahneman mistakes )
• Children should not be forced to eat everything on their plate. Dessert should never be used as a reward.
  (tags: food children )
• More on the new sandboxing for the Mac Application Store
  (tags: apple computers mac )
• EMI being split up and sold off. We're down to three major labels.
  (tags: music business )
• Screaming the carrier tone - a talent only useful during a tiny fraction of history.
  (tags: modem phone computers )
• Climate change scepticism is a largely Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.
  (tags: language culture climatechange global_warming )
• LiveJournal under DDOS again
  (tags: livejournal ddos internet )
• R.I.P. "Marvelman" Creator Mick Anglo
  (tags: marvelman obituary )
• Outrage as French magazine bombed by Warhammer enthusiasts
  (tags: funny warhammer religion satire islam )

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Thought process while reading that: "No, when scientific results are found to be influenced, skeptics are the ones who were more likely to check in the first oh my fucking goodness you did not just say that."

I think it's a point of pride if intellectual rigor is found primarily in the anglo-saxon world.

Totally! Because nothing says "something to be proud of" like claiming you happen to be the same ethnocultural background as smart people--that absolutely means you get to be proud of what someone else did.

And of course climate skepticism as described in the article would be something to be proud of--oh, no, wait, then you turn around and go on about how it's related to selfish denial, because of course "us anglo-saxons" look at all the possible effects of climate change and then start whining and sticking our fingers in our ears because of course we like the bit about temperature changes for our productive gardens--we all have those, you know, that's a huge factor in our daily life--but we can be harangued into paying attention.

Yeah. Great whacking swathes of intellectual rigour there, I'm seeing.