Thursday, September 26, 2013

the meanings of life

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/do-you-want-a-meaningful-life-or-a-happy-one/

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/2/

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Dunning–Kruger effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Martha Nussbaum - The Fragility of Goodness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWfK1E4L--c

Hecuba queen of Troy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecuba