The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Increasingly these days, I am getting thoughtful emails from people who really do want to fix this country rather than leverage ignorance for selfish gain. Here is the YouTube that helped start the conversation: YouTube (5: 51) Robert Steele OWS Electoral Reform Proposal Below is a fine email with questions, and my answers. This is …
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The below link goes to Matt Ridley’s excellent lecture analyzing the importance of heresy in science; and by extension, the danger to science posed by an Authority that dictates what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. The oppression of authority is a subject Galileo learned to his chagrin, and a central theme of Jacob Bronoski’s …
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Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda Dawn Lim WIRED, 18 October 2011 Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing “incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities,” was …
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The Psychology of Killer Drones – action against our foes; reaction affecting us G. I. Wilson Fabius Maximus, 28 September 2011 Summary: We now have enough experience with drone warfare to study its effects. Just as in physics, our actions affect ourselves as well as our targets. Social science research shows that drones are a gateway to moral disengagement dehumanization, …
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Russ Baker 5.0 out of 5 stars Tough reading, desperately needs charts and graphs and a proper web site,August 4, 2011 I sat down to write a review and realized that the top review is a very good summary, and has a number of comments that provide specific new information and also recommend two other …
Crowdsourcing Solutions and Crisis Information during the Renaissance Clearly, crowdsourcing is not new, only the word is. After all, crowdsourcing is a methodology, not a technology nor an industry. Perhaps one of my favorite examples of crowdsourcing during the Renaissance surrounds the invention of the marine chronometer, which completely revolutionized long distance sea travel. Thousands of lives were …
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Responding to Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century II. I think of consciousness from two perspectives. Both may seem plodding. I don’t think of it in terms of evolution, understood as involving some novel emergence, like growing a new organ. An improvement of consciousness occurs within the kind of physical and social makeup …
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