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Continuing with our recent exploration of sleep, I came across this passage by sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright in The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives, on the role of dreams: Despite …
Michael Mauboussin commenting on Daniel Kahneman: When asked which was his favorite paper of all-time, Daniel Kahneman pointed to “On the Psychology of Prediction,” which he co-authored with Amos Tversky in 1973. Tversky and Kahneman …
A great passage from Erik Hollnagel‘s Barriers And Accident Prevention on the search for causes: Whenever an accident happens there is a natural concern to find out in detail exactly what happened and to determine the causes of it. …
“The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other.” The progress of …
“Big populations don’t go extinct. Small populations do. It’s not a surprising finding but it is a significant one.” *** Why do small populations go extinct? While the answer is simple to outline the scientific …
The Cockroach Papers by Richard Schwied is an interesting book if you are looking to learn more about biology or evolution. Cockroaches are built for survival no matter what the world throws at them. Their ability to adapt is just amazing. …
This is a fascinating expert from “How Managers Express Their Creativity” by Herbert Simon that deals with the value of information. Simon compares successful scientific research with successful stock-market investing. …
The scientific method refers to a process of thought based on integrating previous knowledge, observing, measuring, and logical reasoning. In this short video taken from his lectures, Physicist Richard Feynman offers perhaps one of the …