The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Publishers Straddle the Apple-Google, App-Web Divide
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the web for most things.
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Using experts ‘inexpertly' leads to policy failure, warn researchers
The accuracy and reliability of expert advice is often compromised by “cognitive frailties”, and needs to be interrogated with the same tenacity as research data to avoid weak and ill-informed policy, warn two leading risk analysis and conservation researchers in the journal Nature today. Sutherland and Burgman have created a framework of eight key ways to improve the advice of experts. These include using groups – not individuals – with diverse, carefully selected members well within their expertise areas.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing
“While western science and educastion tend to emphasize compartmentalized knowledge which is often de-contextualized and taugh in the detached setting of a classroom or laboratory, indigenous people have traditionally acquired their knowledge through direct experience in the natural world. For them, the particulars come to be understood in relation to the whole, and the ‘laws' are continually tested in the context of everyday survival.” — Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley schoolingtheworld.org
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