"4. 10% of US electricity is generated from old Russian nuclear warheads. [Geoff Brumfiel]43. Privacy seems to be connected to productivity. An experiment in a phone factory showed that putting curtains round workers on a production line increased output by 10–15%. [Ethan Bernstein via Ethan Mollick]52. A study of 14,000 Australians over 14 years found … Continue reading 52 Things [Tom Whitwell] Learned in 2021
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Comforting Illusions
"William Sloane Coffin tells the story of a scientist from Harvard flying on an experimental mission in a private plane over the lake country of northern Alabama, measuring with elaborate instruments the fish populations of various lakes. Sighting two fisherman out at some remote lake he had just surveyed, the scientist figured that as a … Continue reading Comforting Illusions
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
"'Once formed,' the researchers observed dryly, 'impressions are remarkably perseverant.'" —Elizabeth Kolbert, "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds." The New Yorker. February 19, 2017. Be careful what you believe.
‘Belief’ is Complicated — Krista Tippett
Thinking Itself Is Dangerous – Los Angeles Review of Books
"Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men as well as the reality around them, for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity … Continue reading Thinking Itself Is Dangerous – Los Angeles Review of Books
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