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...That falls in line with what Princeton professor Daniel Kahneman coined "the availability heuristic": the concept that if people can think of an incident in which a risk has come to fruition, they will exaggerate its likelihood. "Somehow the probability of an accident increases [in one's mind] after you see a car turned over on the side of the road," says Kahneman, who won a 2002 Nobel prize for his work. "That's what availability does to you: it plants an image that comes readily to mind, and that image is associated with an emotion: fear...
...Student-what? “Student-hood is a concept that students make learning happen,” says Thacker, “It’s curiosity, hard work, risk-taking. Those things are not celebrated by current admission offices...
Ever wonder how that oh-so-smart thing inside your noggin is working? Sure, most of us have some concept of what we think is going on in our minds, some of us much more than others, but did you ever want to know where common sense comes from, or the concept of the self...
Minsky’s book is laid out with each chapter addressing a different concept. The book is difficult to summarize holistically, because Minsky’s style presents what famed philosopher Douglas R. Hofstadter has called “a stunning collage of staccato images.” Indeed, the chapters, and even the subunits of the chapters, seem to be able to stand alone, almost as in a textbook...
...State of Fear, about global warming as an overwrought conspiracy theory, inspired a Stanford climatologist to denounce it as "demonstrably garbage" and President Bush to invite him to the White House to chat. But I'd be willing to bet that more people were introduced to the concept of cloning from reading or watching Jurassic Park than from the news stories and academic papers that have followed the research for years. He performs a service when he acts on his belief that science is too important to leave to the scientists and he invites a mass audience irresistibly into some...