Friday Links 11

Philosophy


Intellectualism vs Science - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/10/the-world-of-the-intellectual-vs-the-world-of-the-engineer.html


Hitchens on deathbed recantations - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/10/christopher-hitchens-drops-the-hammer.html


Marshall Poe on being unable to write a big-idea book - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/meme-weaver/8625/


Defense


Protecting against tear gas - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/10/28/knowledge-is-power/


Science


Inside the mind of the octopus - http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/


There is no correlation between dog bites and full moons - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/10/31/real-life-werewolves-dog-bites-and-full-moons/


Humour


The Sunny Nihilist has some funny Graph Jams - http://sunny-nihilist.tumblr.com/


History


How the potato changed the world - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Potato-Changed-the-World.html


Psychology


Daniel Engber thinks pop psychology may be giving us too many 'Effects' - http://www.slate.com/articles/life/science/2011/10/daniel_kahneman_s_thinking_fast_and_slow_reviewed_.html


Michael Gazzaniga on Neuroscience & Justice - http://edge.org/conversation/neuroscience-and-justice-gazzaniga


Literature


How to pick a sci-fi or fantasy book - http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/scifi_and_fantasy_book_guide.jpg

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