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[HBS Working Knowledge] First Look: March 31, 2009 ”” HBS Working Knowledge: Each week First Look summarizes new working papers, case studies, and publications produced by Harvard Business School faculty. Here readers will be able to get a "first look" at cutting-edge ideas before they enter the mainstream of business practice.

3quarksdaily: For example, as I understand Rourke he claims that, corresponding to the three phases of human information technology (ritualistic, grapholectic, networked), there are three distinct kinds of *thought* (ephemeral, enduring, distributed). Supporting this claim would seem to require a massive synthesis of evidence from history, anthropology, philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, cartography, etc., but there's no such synthesis here.

[Urban Tulsa Weekly | Cover Story] Love Letters, Hate Mail - Columns - Letters - Urban Tulsa Weekly: My parents who are immigrants asked me to summarize the issue being voted on October 9. The issue we vote on October 9 is whether we want our county to remain stagnate like our current river or want the opportunity to develop and grow as a community.

[Dr. John A. Estrella's Blog] Would you like to become a project management author? « Dr. John A ...: Instead of propagating this fallacy, managers should undertake a project audit. By identifying and correcting the root causes of the problem, the project team can create future opportunities and savings for the organization.

[IESE Insight] IESE Insight The Tricky Science of Management: A naïve pragmatist relies on "knowledge coming directly from practice (or common sense) without the necessary guarantees that could make this knowledge solidly founded." In other words, experiences are not facts. More rigorous evaluation is needed to ensure that what is being claimed is not "fake knowledge or superstition."

[Ukiah Blog Live] Myth Four - Industrial Agriculture is Efficient « Ukiah Blog Live: The conclusion was exactly contrary to the “bigger is better” myth: ”Well-managed alternative farming systems nearly always use less synthetic chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and antibiotics per unit of production than conventional farms. Reduced use of these inputs lowers production costs and lessens agriculture’s potential for adverse environmental and health effects without decreasing ”” and in some cases increasing ”” per acre crop yields and the productivity of livestock management systems.”

[MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum] The Black Swan | Mother Jones: (As examples of black swans he cites “the computer, the Internet, and the laser”””all “unplanned, unpredicted, and unappreciated upon their discovery" .except that they were hardly unplanned””people spent years conceiving, developing and applying them.) His argument really can be boiled down to saying that random things happen, and that we should resist creating narratives that don't allow for randomness.

[HBS Working Knowledge] First Look: September 16, 2008 ”” HBS Working Knowledge: Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by experience over time, may be necessary for the fallacy to emerge. Experiment 1 compares a condition where participants sequentially predict the colored outcomes of a roulette wheel with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes are presented all at once.

[What Does The Prayer Really Say?] What Does The Prayer Really Say?»Blog Archive » Card. Mahony maps ...: . The reintroduction of the Mass of the Ages is simply making a clearly pre-existing problem more visible. That is all. For Cardinal Mahony to miss this betrays, to my mind, a lack of understanding and discernment regarding the level of balkanization that has already occurred in the US, and in his diocese. This balkanization was arguably exacerbated in his diocese during his watch. (Fr. Z, I can’t see how it would be even close to the line to point this out.)

[scruffydan.com/blog] Global panel to tackle biodiversity crisis » Mind of Dan: Ecosystems are far more complex than that, and many times a reduction in a seemingly insignificant species can result in drastic changes to the ecosystem. In general microfauna are a large and important part of the foodweb, a very large amount of invertebrate biomass is needed (countless niches must be filled) to support a vertebrate population.

[The Long Now Blog] The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Are We Losing Our Memory?: Choice: Even while recognizing that selection decisions cannot be made autonomously or in a vacuum, librarians and archivists can choose which books, articles, photographs, films, and other materials are converted from paper or film into digital image form. Influence over the continuing value of digital image files is largely vested in the right to decide when it is time to migrate image data to a future storage and access system and in knowing when a digital file has outlived its usefulness to the institution charged with preserving it.

[By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog] Apologetic Method « By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog: Apologetics in Mormonism is sometimes given an overly narrow definition.  Many in our community would regard as apologetic only the set of discourses that (in a tone that is vigorous, sometimes vicious, and rarely scholarly, civil, or notably charitable) seek to preserve contemporary understandings of Mormon orthodoxy at all costs and from all challengers.  However, apologetics in its technical sense is a much broader endeavor, involving efforts to relate faith and reason in ways that are in some sense true to both values.  With this broader technical meaning in mind, the Mormon apologetic community can be seen as including not only the traditional alpha males but also the more even-keeled authors associated with groups like FARMS and FAIR, as well as a clear majority of authors whose work is published in venues such as BYU Studies, Dialogue, and Sunstone.  Many or perhaps most bloggers at the well-known Mormon-themed sites would qualify as well.

[Shtetl-Optimized] Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Corn, rice, and wheat: Yet Raoul may also be right—IMHO he likely is right—that our Planet Earth is considerably over its carrying capacity for a hominid species having a demonstrated aptitude for extirpating other species, short-sightedly ruining ecologies, celebrating genocidal warfare, and embracing non-rational religious and political ideologies of every description (with education providing little or no immunity).

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