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Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobins/YouAndYourResearch.html

You and Your Research

Jennifer Burns on the surprising popularity of a libertarian her

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/node/63319 Consumer spending in the United States may be down, but an interest in Ayn Rand certainly is not. Sales of Rand's last novel, the vigorously pro-capitalism fable Atlas Shrugged , have seen a huge leap in 2009, briefly outperforming even President Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope on Amazon's best-seller list. Few 1,000-page, half-century-old tomes can claim so much.
In Rules of Thumb , Alan Weber quotes legendary venture capitalist John Doerr discussing the original business plans for companies he invested in such as Google, Intuit, and Amazon: In every case you can find the one sentence or paragraph that describes their unique business model advantage.

What carries you up will also bring you down — cdixon.org – chri

http://cdixon.org/2009/10/13/what-carries-you-up-will-also-bring-you-down/
September 2007 http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

How to Do Philosophy

Overcoming Bias: "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper

http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/ Followup to : Semantic Stopsigns , Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions , Say Not 'Complexity'
Suppose that your good friend, the police commissioner, tells you in strictest confidence that the crime kingpin of your city is Wulky Wilkinsen. As a rationalist, are you licensed to believe this statement?

Overcoming Bias: Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational E

http://lesswrong.com/lw/in/scientific_evidence_legal_evidence_rational/
The ReligionFacts " Big Religion Chart " is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart . http://www.religionfacts.com/big_religion_chart.htm

big_religion_chart.htm

Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them

Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them In the Evolution vs. Creationism debate, it is important to be able to spot all the logical fallacies that Creationists tend to throw around. http://www.daltonator.net/durandal/creationism/fallacies.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

Gaia theory (science) - Wikipedia, the fre

The study of planetary habitability is partly based upon extrapolation from knowledge of the Earth 's conditions, as the Earth is the only planet currently known to harbour life
The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things.

buddhism/eightfoldpath.html