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		<title>Putting the Risk of Terrorism into Perspective</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2010/05/putting-the-risk-of-terrorism-into-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 15:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over long time, and especially since 2001 many people are very concerned about terrorism &#8211; and much money is spent and lots of silly procedures have been invented to protect us. This very good article puts the risk of terrorism into perspective &#8211; and the risk of falling victim to a terrorist attack are really [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over long time, and especially since 2001 many people are very concerned about terrorism &#8211; and much money is spent and lots of silly procedures have been invented to protect us.<br />
This <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66186/john-mueller-and-mark-g-stewart/hardly-existential?page=show">very good article</a> puts the risk of terrorism into perspective &#8211; and the risk of falling victim to a terrorist attack are really negligible compared to many other risks which we simply accept as fact of life (like car accidents &#8211; in the US the probability is about 500 times higher to die in car accidents as compared to terrorism; homicide risk is 175 times as high as terrorism).<br />
So actually the relative spending is unreasonable and actually irresponsible.</p>
<p>Of course, this is not only true for the US.</p>
<p>From the article:<br />
&#8220;Compared with dying at the hands of a terrorist, Americans are twice as likely to perish in a natural disaster and nearly a thousand times more likely to be killed in some type of accident.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;As a hazard to human life in the United States, or in virtually any<br />
country outside of a war zone, terrorism under present conditions<br />
presents a threat that is hardly existential. Applying widely accepted<br />
criteria established after much research by regulators and<br />
decision-makers, the risks from terrorism are low enough to be deemed<br />
acceptable. Overall, vastly more lives could have been saved if<br />
counterterrorism funds had instead been spent on combating hazards that<br />
present unacceptable risks.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Randy Pausch: Last Lecture</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2009/05/randy-pausch-last-lecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy Pausch war ein Professor der Informatik, der 2008 an Krebs gestorben ist. Er hat aus seiner Erkrankung kein Geheimnis gemacht und war immer ein lebensbejahender und grunds&#228;tzlich positiver Mensch. Die an seiner Universit&#228;t &#252;bliche &#8216;Last Lecture&#8217; eines scheidenden Professors war in seinem Fall eine last lecture im engeren Sinn &#8211; und dessen waren sich [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Randy Pausch war ein Professor der Informatik, der 2008 an Krebs gestorben ist. Er hat aus seiner Erkrankung kein Geheimnis gemacht und war immer ein lebensbejahender und grunds&#228;tzlich positiver Mensch. Die an seiner Universit&#228;t &#252;bliche &#8216;Last Lecture&#8217; eines scheidenden Professors war in seinem Fall eine last lecture im engeren Sinn &#8211; und dessen waren sich er und seine Zuh&#246;rer bewusst. Er hat darin &#252;ber sein Leben, die Verwirklichung seiner Tr&#228;ume und den Sinn gesprochen &#8211; diese Last Lecture ist online unter <a href="http://www.thelastlecture.com/" mce_href="http://www.thelastlecture.com/">http://www.thelastlecture.com/</a> und <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/uls/journeys/randy-pausch/index.html" mce_href="http://www.cmu.edu/uls/journeys/randy-pausch/index.html">http://www.cmu.edu/uls/journeys/randy-pausch/index.html</a> zu finden .</p>
<p>Das Buch erz&#228;hlt mit mehr Details und Hintergr&#252;nden den Inhalt dieser Lecture &#8211; sehr bewegend ist sein Einsatz und seine Einsichten aus und in seinem Leben.</p>
<p>Zitate:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wenn Du es tr&#228;umen kannst, dann kannst du es auch tun.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mein Vater hat mir beigebracht: Wenn ein Elefant im Raum ist, stelle ihn vor. Wenn man sich mein CT ansieht, dann sieht man ungef&#228;hr zehn Tumore in meiner Leber und die &#196;rzte sagten mir, dass ich noch drei bis sechs Monate bei guter Gesundheit h&#228;tte. Das war vor einem Monat, also rechnet selbst.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;Coach Graham hat dich ziemlich hart angepackt, was?&#8217; &#8230;. &#8216;Das ist gut&#8217;, erkl&#228;rte er mir, &#8216;denn wenn du es verbockst und niemand etwas sagt, dann heisst das, dass sie dich aufgegeben haben.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ich habe schon so oft Klagen &#252;ber den Niedergang unseres Bildungssystems geh&#246;rt, aber ich bin &#252;berzeugt, dass einer der Schl&#252;sselfaktoren dabei die viel zu vielen Streicheleinheiten und viel zu wenigen echten Feedbacks sind.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sie sagte: &#8216;Es hat lange gedauert, aber am Ende hab ich es doch rausbekommen. Wenn es um M&#228;nner geht, die ein romantisches Interesse an dir zeigen, ist die Sache wirklich einfach: Ignoriere alles, was sie sagen und achte nur darauf, was sie tun.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Erfahrung ist das, was du bekommst, wenn du nicht bekommen hast, was du wolltest. Und Erfahrung ist nicht selten das Wertvollste, was du anzubieten hast.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; die Idee, jedem Papier, das zur Begutachtung anstand, eine Schachtel <i>Girl Scout Thin Mints</i> beizulegen. &#8216;Danke f&#252;r Deine Bereitschaft&#8217;, schrieb ich dazu. &#8216;Die beigef&#252;gten Thin Mints sind Deine Belohnung. Aber nicht dr&#252;ber hermachen, bevor Du das Papier begutachtet hast.&#8217; Das brachte die Leute zum L&#228;cheln. Und ich brauchte sie nie anzurufen und ihnen auf die Nerven zu gehen. Sie hatten die Schachtel Thin Mints auf dem Schreibtisch und wussten, was sie zu tun hatten.<br />Klar, manchmal musste ich eine kurze Erinnerungsmail schicken. Doch auch da brauchte ich nur einen Satz zu schreiben: &#8216;Hast Du Deine Thin Mints schon gegessen?&#8217;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Film zum Thema Grundeinkommen</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2009/04/film-zum-thema-grundeinkommen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seit ich davon geh&#246;rt habe, hat mich die Idee fasziniert &#8211; ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen f&#252;r alle, was f&#252;r eine Befreiung stellte das dar! Sh. das Buch von . Unter grundeinkommen.tv ist das Thema aufgegriffen mit einem  100-min&#252;tigen Film, sehr gut gemacht, viele interessante Stimmen und Erkl&#228;rungen &#8211; frei verf&#252;gbar als Stream, aber auch zum Download [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seit ich davon geh&#246;rt habe, hat mich die Idee fasziniert &#8211; ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen f&#252;r alle, was f&#252;r eine Befreiung stellte das dar! Sh. das Buch von <a href="http://4nomore.net/2007/08/goetzwwerner-einkommenfueralle/">G&#246;tz Werner</a>.<br />
Unter <a href="http://grundeinkommen.tv">grundeinkommen.tv</a> ist das Thema aufgegriffen mit einem  <a href="http://www.kultkino.ch/kultkino/besonderes/grundeinkommen">100-min&#252;tigen Film</a>, sehr gut gemacht, viele interessante Stimmen und Erkl&#228;rungen &#8211; frei verf&#252;gbar als Stream, aber auch zum Download (sogar die gesamte DVD).<br />
Sehr empfohlen!</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Open Company&#8221; &#8211; Experiment</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2009/04/open-company-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noteworthy experiment with an &#8220;Open Company&#8221; &#8211; the idea being that everyone should be working on what he would like to work. The Open Company is taking the idea of open source projects to the company level: anyone could work for such a company, doing what he would like. Compensation would follow a trust metric [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Noteworthy experiment with an <a href="http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany">&#8220;Open Company&#8221;</a> &#8211; the idea being that everyone should be working on what he would like to work. The Open Company is taking the idea of open source projects to the company level: anyone could work for such a company, doing what he would like. Compensation would follow a trust metric via inputs from peers.</p>
<p>Intriguing idea in my opinion, though lots of open questions: will all necessary work getting done? Will the compensation scheme work? etc.</p>
<p>But the author is betting his company and product on it!</p>
<p>Interesting discussion and links in the comments of the blog entry &#8211; and I will try to follow the future of this project!</p>
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		<title>Andy Clark, David J Chalmers: The Extended Mind</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2009/04/andy-clark-david-j-chalmers-the-extended-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating article about the mind and how confined/extended it might be. Using pen and paper to perform long multiplications is the first step of externalizing cognistive processes &#8211; but we are more and more on a route to have many external actions being part of our cognitive processes (think of Google for extending our current [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://consc.net/papers/extended.html">Fascinating article</a> about the mind and how confined/extended it might be.</p>
<p>Using pen and paper to perform long multiplications is the first step of externalizing cognistive processes &#8211; but we are more and more on a route to have many external actions being part of our cognitive processes (think of Google for extending our current actual knowledge).<br />
So far, so good, but how about mind? Can that then too be partially externalized?<br />
An example given by the authors is the comparison of the behavior of a ‘normal’ person with a person with Alzheimers disease when trying to find a museum. One uses the information in the head, whereas the other relies completely on things in his laptop.<br />
Next step: can  my mental states be partly constitued by the states of other thinkers?<br />
And then how about an extended self?<br />
And if this is extended out of my person &#8211; will interfering with my environment have a moral significance similar to interfering with the person? And are some forms of social activity more like ‘thought’ instead of communication and action?</p>
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		<title>Quiz: What Should You Really Fear?</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2008/10/whattofear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quiz: What Should You Really Fear? &#8211; Interesting Quiz revealing how much our perception of risks and events differs from reality. E.g. related to things about terrorism.]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-07/pl_print">Quiz: What Should You Really Fear?</a> &#8211; Interesting Quiz revealing how much our perception of risks and events differs from reality. E.g. related to things about terrorism.</li>
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		<title>Extrapolating visual input into the future &#8211; and optical illusions</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2008/07/extrapolating-visual-input/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the visual processing takes some time (in the order of 1/10th of a second), the brain will try to extrapolate a given visual stimulus this time into the future. This makes sense, but of course can go wrong sometimes &#8211; and in this article this fact is used to explain many of the optical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the visual processing takes some time (in the order of 1/10th of a second), the brain will try to extrapolate a given visual stimulus this time into the future. This makes sense, but of course can go wrong sometimes &#8211; and in this article this fact is used to explain many of the optical illusions.<br />
Very interesting unifying explanation for many of these phenomena!</p>
<p>See the paper by <a href="http://www.geocities.com/changizi/#pp">Mark Changizi &#8220;<span><strong><a name="pp"><span><strong>Latency correction and a general theory of illusions&#8221;.</strong></span></a></strong></span></a></p>
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		<title>Gl&#252;ck Oder Ungl&#252;ck</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2008/01/glueckoderunglueck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Es besch&#228;ftigt viele Leute, aber wenige kennen es. Ich h&#246;re so oft, dass jemand sagt er h&#228;tte kein Gl&#252;ck. Die anderen h&#228;tten immer so viel Gl&#252;ck, er niemals. Diese Leute kennen das Gl&#252;ck nicht, besonders dann nicht, wenn sie behaupten, das Ungl&#252;ck verfolge sie. Denn Gl&#252;ck und Ungl&#252;ck ist dasselbe. Beides ist der Zufall, der [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Es besch&#228;ftigt viele Leute, aber wenige kennen es. Ich h&#246;re so oft, dass jemand sagt er h&#228;tte kein Gl&#252;ck. Die anderen h&#228;tten immer so viel Gl&#252;ck, er niemals. Diese Leute kennen das Gl&#252;ck nicht, besonders dann nicht, wenn sie behaupten, das Ungl&#252;ck verfolge sie. Denn Gl&#252;ck und Ungl&#252;ck ist dasselbe. Beides ist der Zufall, der durch das Geschehen einen Menschen ver&#228;ndert. Oft erkennen die Menschen erst viel sp&#228;ter, welche Richtung der Zufall hatte, den sie anfangs f&#252;r Gl&#252;ck oder Ungl&#252;ck gehalten haben. Die banale Tatsache ist jedem gel&#228;ufig, dass sich ein Gl&#252;ck in Ungl&#252;ck verkehren kann oder umgekehrt, weil es dasselbe ist. Man k&#246;nnte bildlich sagen, dass das Gl&#252;ck mit zwei H&#228;nden gibt, mit der einen das, was das Geschehen des Menschen f&#246;rdert, mit der anderen, was es hemmt. Und jeder kann sich sogar aussuchen, was er haben will. Er kann auch beides nehmen, oder nichts. So bewahrheitet sich das alte Sprichwort &#8220;Jeder ist seines Gl&#252;ckes Schmied.&#8221; Der Zufall f&#252;r das Geschehen eines Menschen kommt immer, jeden Augenblick. Und dadurch, dass der Mensch in den meisten F&#228;llen frei w&#228;hlen kann, nimmt er dem Zufall f&#252;r sein Geschehen das zuf&#228;llige.  Er macht ihn bewusst. Nicht das Gl&#252;ck ist wesentlich, sondern die Stetigkeit im Geschehen eines Menschen, dass er ein Ganzes werde. So sollten die Menschen mehr lernen sich selbst zu erkennen, statt dem Gl&#252;cke nachzujagen, das sie doch nur zwingen k&#246;nnen, wenn sie sich kennen und zwingen. Gl&#252;ck ist das, was dem Menschen an seiner Einheit fehlt. F&#252;r jeden gibt es viel Gl&#252;ck in seinem Bereich. Nur der Kluge findet es richtig heraus. Gl&#252;ckauf! Suchen Sie das Gl&#252;ck &#8211; in sich! Da ist es. </p></blockquote>
<p>Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948</p>
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		<title>So wie du heute lebst</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2007/09/sowieduheutelebst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So wie du heute lebst, lebst du morgen. As you live today, you will live tomorrow. A simple sentence, heard in my Yoga class as a wisdom from the far-east. At first I thought this is kind of stupid, defying any sense of change. But then I got the point &#8211; which is exactly this: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>So wie du heute lebst,<br />
lebst du morgen.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>As you live today,<br />
you will live tomorrow.</p></blockquote>
<p>A simple sentence, heard in my Yoga class as a wisdom from the far-east.<br />
At first I thought this is kind of stupid, defying any sense of change. But then I got the point &#8211; which is exactly this: if you want to change, if you want to get things done, don&#8217;t start tomorrow. Don&#8217;t think, I will do this tomorrow &#8211; you need to do it right now, or take the first steps. Otherwise, if you say today, that you will start tomorrow, that is exactly what you will say/do tomorrow too.</p>
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		<title>Your &#8220;Permanent Age&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://4nomore.net/2007/09/permanentage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting blog entry from Scott Adams musing about a &#8216;permanent age&#8217; everyone is in &#8211; could be old or young, sometime/often then not perfectly suited to the real age. Also, in a similar vein, about people living either in the past, present or future. Well, I think in the latter I feel like a mixture [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting <a class="externalLink" title="External link to http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/whats_your_perm.html" href="http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/whats_your_perm.html" target="_blank">blog entry from Scott Adams</a> musing about a &#8216;permanent age&#8217; everyone is in &#8211; could be old or young, sometime/often then not perfectly suited to the real age. Also, in a similar vein, about people living either in the past, present or future. Well, I think in the latter I feel like a mixture of future (mostly) and past (unfortunately with some regrets).</p>
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		<title>Learning Foreign Languages</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ACM Ubiquity, there is a nice article Philip Yaffe: Fast-tracking Foreign Languages: How to Meet the Linguistic Challenges of Working Abroad about learning of foreign languages.It is somewhat directed at english-speaking people who might tend to believe that it is near-impossible to learn other languages &#8230; but points out that many people do, actually [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In ACM Ubiquity, there is a nice article <a target="_blank" title="External link to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html" href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html" class="externalLink">Philip Yaffe: Fast-tracking Foreign Languages: How to Meet the Linguistic Challenges of Working Abroad</a> about learning of foreign languages.<br />It is somewhat directed at english-speaking people who might tend to believe that it is near-impossible to learn other languages &#8230; but points out that many people do, actually quite seamlessly &#8211; especially if one is concerned mostly with speaking (at least first): the redundancy of language lets other people understand even quite malformed sentences. And, contrary to at least some schools, grammar is the least important &#8211; the big effort is the vocabulary (which is, after the base vocabulary, best done through reading).<br />He thinks that one mostly needs to change one&#8217;s mindset &#8211; from perfect speaking to perfectly communicating.</p>
<blockquote><p>I therefore suggest that the most effective order for learning a language would be:<br /> 1. Basic grammar<br />The minimum necessary to put together an intelligible (if incorrect) sentence. In my experience, this is most efficiently done self-taught. Sit down with a grammar book for about 10-15 minutes each day until you begin to feel somewhat comfortable with it.</p>
<p>2. Basic vocabulary<br />The minimum necessary to begin using the basic grammar. Again, in my experience this is most efficiently done self-taught, i.e. the classic &#8220;learn five new words each day&#8221;. It won&#8217;t be very long before you start seeing how different words are related, so you can begin to guess what new words mean without resorting to the dictionary.</p>
<p>Speaking the language<br />Putting basic grammar and vocabulary to work as soon as you can actually begin using them. This is the time to consider a language school or a personal tutor. With the foundation of what you will have already learned by yourself, you will certainly progress more easily and rapidly than if you had leapt into formal language instruction at the very beginning.</p>
<p>Writing the language<br />You will almost certainly never need to do much writing. And what you do write will certainly need to be revised and corrected by a native speaker. </p>
<p>Since vocabulary is crucial, then the largely unrecognised key to mastering another language is: Learn to read it.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Diesel Ad: Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; interesting what kind of ads one can do &#8211; see this &#8216;Global Warming&#8217; series from Diesel.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; interesting what kind of ads one can do &#8211; see this &#8216;Global Warming&#8217; series from <a target="_blank" title="External link to http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2007/08/diesel-global-warming-ready/" href="http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/2007/08/diesel-global-warming-ready/" class="externalLink">Diesel</a>.<br /><img src="images/dieselrushmore.jpg" alt="DieselRushmore" title="DieselRushmore"></p>
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		<title>Telepresence Taken Seriously</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telepresence taken seriously: Ivan Anywhere &#8211; this article tells about a programmer working remotely and missing the presence &#8211; so he built a true telepresence. Must be a bit eerie, but then &#8230; we might get used to it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Telepresence taken seriously: Ivan Anywhere &#8211; this <a target="_blank" title="External link to http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/236315" href="http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/236315" class="externalLink">article</a> tells about a programmer working remotely and missing the presence &#8211; so he built a true telepresence. Must be a bit eerie, but then &#8230; we might get used to it.<br /><img src="images/IvanAnywhere.jpg" alt="IvanAnywhere Telepresence Roboter" title="IvanAnywhere Telepresence Roboter"> </p>
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		<title>Violence Declining</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pinker talks about the History of Violence and shows that, despite the feeling we get from news and press, violence is strongly declining in human history. The main questions are then, why do we have this wrong perception, and why does humanity aim towards peace?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steven Pinker talks about the <a target="_blank" title="External link to http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge206.html" href="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge206.html" class="externalLink">History of Violence</a> and shows that, despite the feeling we get from news and press, violence is strongly declining in human history. The main questions are then, why do we have this wrong perception, and why does humanity aim towards peace?</p>
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		<title>About Conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some long conversation with a very good friend about a difficult topic where our opinions (seemed to) differ, I wrote down a few things to remember: very important is to feel the gap between the participants in their respective context of the used language, and the level of talking I guess this mostly emphasizes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After some long conversation with a very good friend about a difficult topic where our opinions (seemed to) differ, I wrote down a few things to remember:</p>
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<li> very important is to feel the gap between the participants in their respective context of the used language, and the level of talking</li>
<li> I guess this mostly emphasizes the good listening</li>
<li> the tempo of the conversation obviously needs to adjust to this gap and the person</li>
<li> agree on the used terms early, as otherwise this can lead to a lot of unnecessary frustration and &#8216;clean-up&#8217; work later</li>
<li> if the other does not feel comfortably with your terms, find and use a different term acceptable for all</li>
<li> if the other is a reasonable person you might know for a long time, and he does not agree with your stuff: consider that you are wrong! And argue about it. And reconsider your point.</li>
<li> if the other is not a reasonable person, keep the discussion short &#8230;</li>
<li> keep temper and listen</li>
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		<title>Paul Graham: Wisdom &amp; Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article by Paul Graham considering wisdeom versus intelligence at http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html. Whereas wisdom comes through humility, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have a mistakenly high opinion of your abilities, because that encourages you to keep working. Ideally till you realize how mistaken you were.&#8230;A teacher has to walk a narrow path: you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting article by Paul Graham considering wisdeom versus intelligence at <a target="_blank" title="External link to http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html" href="http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html" class="externalLink">http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html</a>.<br />
<blockquote>Whereas wisdom comes through humility, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have a mistakenly high opinion of your abilities, because that encourages you to keep working. Ideally till you realize how mistaken you were.<br />&#8230;<br />A teacher has to walk a narrow path: you want to encourage kids to come up with things on their own, but you can&#8217;t simply applaud everything they produce. You have to be a good audience: appreciative, but not too easily impressed. And that&#8217;s a lot of work. You have to have a good enough grasp of kids&#8217; capacities at different ages to know when to be surprised.<br />&#8230;<br />The path to wisdom is through discipline, and the path to intelligence through carefully selected self-indulgence. Wisdom is universal, and intelligence idiosyncratic. And while wisdom yields calmness, intelligence much of the time leads to discontentment.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Dan Gilbert: TED Talk On Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About happiness: we synthesize happiness, we are not finding it. Synthetic happiness is as strong as found happiness.- quoting lots of nice stories &#8230; impact is much overrated, e.g. paraplegics &#38; lottery winners show same happiness after the event is back one year or so!And with an example of people not being able to memorize [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About happiness: we synthesize happiness, we are not finding it. Synthetic happiness is as strong as found happiness.<br />- quoting lots of nice stories &#8230; impact is much overrated, e.g. paraplegics &amp; lottery winners show same happiness after the event is back one year or so!<br />And with an example of people not being able to memorize things, he shows that we seem to truely change what we get happiness out, not simply retrofitting to what we got in the past and accommodating this.<br />This mechanism works better having no choice, being stuck! But we do think we need freedom of choice at same time!<br />Link: <a target="_blank" title="External link to http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=d_gilbert" href="http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=d_gilbert" class="externalLink">http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=d_gilbert</a></p>
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