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The promise of a four hour workweek magically righting all wrongs in your life, is a lie. Not only is it highly implausible, but if you ever do achieve a four hour work week, you’ll probably want to get rid of it.
The Lie of The Four Hour Work Week.
Podcast: The New Man - Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp
In Part two of our discussion with Dr. sandor Gardos, we take a deeper look into everybody's favorite topic...sex. Unfortunately, the sex life of most men is not where it could be.
Does ideology trump facts? Studies say it often does
We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the truth is that's not always the case. Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that's actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process. If the findings of some political scientists are right, attempting to correct misinformation might do nothing more than reinforce the false belief. This sort of misinformation isn't hypothetical; in 2003 a study found that viewers of Fox News were significantly more misinformed about the Iraq war, with far greater percentages of viewers erroneously believing that Iraq possessed WMDs or that there was a credible link between the 9/11 attack and Saddam Hussein than those who got their news from other outlets like NPR and PBS. This has led to the rise of websites like FactCheck and SourceWatch .
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You were looking for www.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2008/cpi2008? We launched a new website in April 2012. Either you are trying to reach a page which does not exist or you are trying to reach a link on our old site. While we fill out the content on our new site at www.transparency.org , we are maintaining the old site as an archive here . Based on the link you clicked to get here, we suspect the content you are looking for may be at the following location: http://archive.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2008/cpi2008 To learn more about our archive site, see this article
Zaha Hadid/Swarovski Crystal Palace Collection Roughly 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras observed that objects, such as the anvils he purportedly studied, produced harmonious sounds while vibrating at frequencies in simple whole-number ratios. More complex ratios gave rise to more dissonant sounds, which indicated that human beings were unconsciously sensitive to mathematical relationships inherent in nature. By showing that the world could be described mathematically, Pythagoras not only provided an important inspiration for physics, but he also discovered a particular affinity between mathematics and music—one that Gottfried Leibniz was to invoke centuries later when he described music as the “unknowing exercise of our mathematical faculties.” For a thousand years, Western musicians have endeavored to satisfy two fundamental constraints in their compositions. The first is that melodies should, in general, move by short distances.
Seed: The Shape of Music
What You'll Wish You'd Known
January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.) When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school?Jannica Heinström Department of Social and Political Sciences/Information Studies Åbo Akademi University Tavastgatan 13 FIN-20500 Åbo Finland Abstract This article emphasize the importance of considering psychological mechanisms for a thorough understanding of users of information services. The focal point is the relation between personality and information seeking which is explored through a quantitative analysis of 305 university students' personality traits and information habits.
Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour
How Thinking Goes Wrong
How Thinking Goes Wrong Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer from his 1997 book "Why People Believe Weird Things" (used by kind permission of the author; all rights reserved) In 1994 NBC began airing a New Age program called The Other Side that explored claims of the paranormal, various mysteries and miracles, and assorted "weird" things. I appeared numerous times as the token skeptic -- the "other side" of The Other Side, if you will.