The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Frank Capra 5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant and important book. July 30, 1999 A Customer It’s all here. Everything we ever needed to know to begin to change our world and ourselves. Totally brilliant. Many years in the making, this book covers a very wide spectrum of knowledge and is fascinating all the …
Imagine that the year is 1543 and you have just completed reading Copernicus’ newly published book, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres, that has attempted to convince you that your daily experience of the sun moving around a stationary earth is an illusion. What do you think the chances are that you would have …
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Internyet Nescience? Self-referential upgrading of obsolete Internet conference processes inhibiting emergence of integrative knowledge Introduction Internet science? Methodological possibilities Representation possibilities Conclusion References Paper originally envisaged for the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (10-13 April 2013, Brussels) held under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of …
RM 130212 Cybernetics Management and Security Policy I think the U.S. may be on the verge of making an important strategic mistake in science and in management education. Here are three stories to illustrate the historical background. 1. The Macy Foundation conferences in 1948-1953 led to founding the field of cybernetics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences The Am. …
This new database will be useful for Robb’s global guerrillas to compile “Highly Accurate Lists”: A Database of Names and How They Connect By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN It sounds like a Rolodex for the 1 percent: two million deal makers, power brokers and business executives — not only their names, but in many cases the …
Richard Dawkins and “new atheists” are the best example. They often make the claim that science has essentially proved that God does not exist. Of course they also equivocate and backtrack and claim they never claimed that. Then they start talking about low order probabilities that are so low that we can virtually know that …
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Here is a fragment from a listserve that is related to reflexivity. It explains how social science is different from physical science. Assuming that an approach developed for physical systems can also be used for social systems will miss a key feature of social systems. Very interesting paper on application of science to agriculture, in …
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