Word: logic
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...shiny shoe. Whether it’s one nasty midterm or one nasty rub, it only takes one sticky encounter before you know better. Unsuspecting innumerates hear the class deals only with their buddy the symbol. Then they close-read the title and deduce something of their own: Deductive Logic. No numbers! Only reason! Deduce again literati: this is a class on proofs, which you’ll remember are hell. Deductive Logic is a lotta things—“a Philosophy requirement” comes second to mind, after “a bitch?...
...mean electoral self-immolation. To get Brown's full-throated support during the 2005 election, Blair was forced to promise to quit before the next one - something he has always regretted. And while an orderly transition is obviously desirable for the Labour Party, it has fallen prey to the logic of personal ambition in a parliamentary system. A Prime Minister on his way out just doesn't have the juice: his threats of punishment and promises of advancement ring hollow. MPs start jockeying for the next guy's approval - and the bitter feud between Blair and Brown means...
...accumulation of worrying signs be reversed? During a visit to Afghanistan in July, Homburger was surprised by the optimism expressed by both Afghans and foreign workers despite the Taliban's attacks. "The population is aware they are being helped. They do see progress," she says. However, the awful logic of almost-failed states is hard to escape: without security, development is impossible, and without development, security is impossible. Only outside help can break that dynamic. Afghanistan is about to discover whether it may need a little more from its NATO friends than they're prepared to give...
Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just smacked them across the face. Well, then, by that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, still fresh in their minds, Americans watched Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on live TV. Anyone who didn't know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made much worse by our own lack of ambition--our willful blindness to risk as much as our reluctance...
...adoption, but unfortunately, when you look at history, that's true of the light bulb, it's true of electricity. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, and the next morning everybody read about it - by candlelight. A lot of good technology goes from indefensible to indispensable because, by pure logic, the day before it was invented, it wasn't invented, and everybody lived a different way. So the day after it's invented, you don't see people saying, "Yesterday my life was a mess, and today, I'm enlightened and I will change everything I do." That...