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Karl Popper

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Name: Karl Popper

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

MacBook Air

New research tools kick up dust in archives

Seated recently in the special collections room at the , Anders Fernstedt raced through an imposing set of yellowing articles and correspondence.Several years ago Fernstedt, an independent Swedish scholar who is studying the work of the 20th-century philosopher ... [Published Sify - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Karl Popper, Corroboration, MacBook Air, Stanford University

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Michael Gove

The seven faces of Michael Gove

In politics, as in war, it’s always a grave mistake to underestimate your enemy – and this is especially true in the case of the current secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, who is generally agreed to be one of the most effective ministers ... [Published Red Pepper - May 21 2013]

Entities: Michael Gove, Education, Isaiah Berlin, Antonio Gramsci

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Unisys Corporation

Contributor Content | Why Don’t We Learn from Mistakes in IT?

Airline “black boxes” have led to today’s outstanding safety record. IT could learn from that. Image: wbaiv/FlickrThe statistics for civil aviation accidents during 2012 showed that the number of deaths was the lowest since the 1940s, when there were ... [Published Wired News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Bertrand Meyer, Karl Popper, Airline, Unisys Corporation

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Breaking with Tradition – Why I Don’t Use Technical Analysis: Part 2

As a former prop trader with expertise in institutional sales and trading based in Vietnam, Peter’s approach is to mix quantitative trading techniques and fundamental analysis to provide a unique view of the changes taking place in the emerging markets ... [Published TradingMarkets - May 16 2013]

Entities: hypothesis, Technical Analysis, Black Swan

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Know Nothing

I Know Nothing

Kia ora and welcome to my first ever post. Ta-dah!I’m writing this at my kitchen table in Auckland, New Zealand, when I should be doing some prep for my stats lecture this afternoon. But the chance to blog for Psychology Today is so much sexier than practicing ... [Published Psychology Today - May 12 2013]

Entities: Karl Popper, Know Nothing, New Zealand, Robert Hughes

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

What Ezra Klein and Alex Jones Have in Common

The new issue of the New Inquiry is entitled “New World Order,” so naturally I read the whole thing the afternoon it hit my inbox. There’s an essay by Jesse Elias Spafford, who, with assists from Karl Popper and David Hume, compares the values-free empiricism ... [Published American Conservative - May 09 2013]

Entities: Ezra Klein, Karl Popper, David Hume

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 2 reports

The Science vs. the Pseudoscience of Extreme Weather

Over at Capital Weather Gang, the always-perceptive Jason Samenow details a recent Twitterspat between Dot Earth’s (aka The New York Times’) Andrew Revkin and Penn State’s Michael Mann over attributing extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change—tornadoes, ... [Published Cato Institute - May 08 2013]

Entities: Andrew Revkin, Global Warming/Climate Change, Tornado, Anthropogenic

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Lebanon Valley College to hold commencement on May 11

Lebanon Valley College, Annville, will award diplomas to nearly 380 graduates Saturday, May 11.The baccalaureate service will begin at 9 a.m. in Miller Chapel with commencement to follow at 11 a.m. on the academic quad. In the case of inclement weather, ... [Published Lebanon Daily News - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Lebanon Valley College, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Mount Holyoke College, Karl Popper

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

THE BEST PHILOSOPHY IS DOUBT

The Big Question: Colin Blakemore is in favour of a philosophy that always asks if you could be wrongFrom INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, May/June 2013Let’s face it, René Descartes isn’t the most fashionable of philosophers. All that mumbo-jumbo about ghosts ... [Published More Intelligent Life.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Rene Descartes, Colin Blakemore, Karl Popper, Particle Physics, Higgs Boson

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

At Home with the Letwins' Salon

They created something tremendous: Bill and Shirley Letwin with Margot Walmsley and Peter VansittartKingsley Amis, A.J. Ayer, Keith Joseph, Friedrich von Hayek, Sybille Bedford, Peregrine Worsthorne, Elie Kedourie, John Gross, V.S. Pritchett, ... [Published Standpoint Magazine - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Sybille Bedford, Elie Kedourie, Peregrine Worsthorne, All Souls College, Oxford

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Thatcher: First to tackle climate change

Unlike the blanket TV coverage NASA climate scientist James Hansen generated at his 1988 appearance before the US Congress, there were no cameras when UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addressed the Royal Society on September 27,1988. Told that the ... [Published National Business Review - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Crispin Tickell, Margaret Thatcher, Global Warming/Climate Change, Karl Popper

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 1 reports

Book excerpt: The first warmist

GettyMargaret Thatcher in 1988. Wanted U.K. to grasp importance of global warming Unlike the blanket TV coverage NASA climate scientist James Hansen generated at his 1988 appearance before Congress, there were no cameras when British prime minister ... [Published Financial Post | Opinion » FP Comment - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Crispin Tickell, Global Warming/Climate Change, Karl Popper

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New research tools kick up dust in archives [Published Sify - 21 hours ago]
The seven faces of Michael Gove [Published Red Pepper - May 21 2013]
Contributor Content \| Why Don’t We Learn from M... [Published Wired News - May 16 2013]
Breaking with Tradition – Why I Don’t Use Techn... [Published TradingMarkets - May 16 2013]
Caste as social capital [Published Hindu Business Line - May 16 2013]
Economics and Armchair Psychology [Published RINF.com - May 16 2013]
The A.B.E. Of Economics [Published Seeking Alpha - May 14 2013]
I Know Nothing [Published Psychology Today - May 12 2013]
What Ezra Klein and Alex Jones Have in Common [Published American Conservative - May 09 2013]
The Science vs. the Pseudoscience of Extreme We... [Published Cato Institute - May 08 2013]
The Science vs. the Pseudoscience of Extreme We... [Published Cato @ Liberty - May 08 2013]
The perfect wife according to Darwin [Published ABC Online - May 03 2013]
Lebanon Valley College to Host 144th Baccalaure... [Published The Southern Berks News - May 01 2013]
THE BEST PHILOSOPHY IS DOUBT [Published More Intelligent Life.com - Apr 30 2013]
Lebanon Valley College to hold commencement on ... [Published Lebanon Daily News - Apr 30 2013]
Terry Pratchett, science and story telling [Published New Statesman - Apr 25 2013]
At Home with the Letwins' Salon [Published Standpoint Magazine - Apr 25 2013]
Struggle in the ether. [National, The (United A... [Published Equities.com - Apr 21 2013]
What’s What. [Published The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Apr 20 2013]
Thatcher: First to tackle climate change [Published National Business Review - Apr 19 2013]
Reuters bumps off Soros, turns out he’s alive a... [Published Firstpost.com - Apr 19 2013]
Not so Fast: Reuters Jumps Gun on Soros Demise [Published Breitbart.com - Apr 19 2013]
Not so Fast: Reuters Jumps Gun on Soros Demise [Published Breitbart Feed - Apr 19 2013]
Soros is Dead! Whoops, Not, Reuters Pulled Trig... [Published naked capitalism - Apr 19 2013]
George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal phil... [Published Value Walk - Apr 18 2013]
Reuters Mistakenly Pronounces George Soros Dead... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - Apr 18 2013]
Reuters Releases George Soros Obituary By Mista... [Published Zero Hedge - Apr 18 2013]
Ubuntu: A reply to my critics [Published Politicsweb - Apr 17 2013]
David Miles: Thatcher's Militant Democracy [Published Huffington Post UK - Apr 17 2013]
Russia XXI: The Logic of Suicide and Rebirth [Published Carnegie Endowment - Apr 17 2013]

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The Science vs. the Pseudoscience of Extreme We... [Published Cato @ Liberty - May 08 2013] Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger Over at Capital Weather Gang , the always-perceptive Jason Samenow details a recent Twitterspat between Dot Earth’s (aka The New York Times’) Andrew Revkin and Penn State’s Michael Mann over attributing ...
What’s What. [Published The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Apr 20 2013] An explanation that few will agree with, fewer will like, and fewer still will advocate.[1] First, naturalistic evolution is true. I’m sorry if that disturbs you, but I don’t even consider it controversial. No respectable biologist does either.[2] ...
Not so Fast: Reuters Jumps Gun on Soros Demise [Published Breitbart Feed - Apr 19 2013] On April 18, the venerable foreign wire service Reuters accidentally posted its obituary-in-waiting for financier and long-time anti-American activist George Soros. Reuters reports --or rather will report when he actually dies--that George Soros ...
Soros is Dead! Whoops, Not, Reuters Pulled Trig... [Published naked capitalism - Apr 19 2013] George Soros, along with being the man who broke the pound in 1992, has the interesting privilege of being able to read his own obituary. This is something money can’t buy. Reuters launched the report of the hedge fund pioneer/philanthropist’s demise ...
Reuters Mistakenly Pronounces George Soros Dead... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - Apr 18 2013] Journalism's Best Week Ever™ continues with the news that Reuters accidentally published George Soros's obituary a few minutes ago. Here's their tweet about it: Reuters published an obituary of George Soros in error. Reuters withdrew the article ...