duda.michael
Recent Actions
-
Commented on What have we learned?
8: Why indeed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience) Road carnage is not "news". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values Hospital infections, ditto. The lack of antibiotics in the pipeline, ditto. Squandering out helium reserves...you get the point. Wow, solved that one. I guess I'll make a sandwich for...
-
Commented on What have we learned?
I've learned that reactions motivated by fear but not informed by reason end badly. The "screaming wheel" gets the grease. And that discussions about safety are almost always about saving face and not net dollar-per-life expenditure....
-
Commented on Who ordered *that*?
Revolution by Any Other Name I find it impossible to argue with your analysis or even quibble with your conclusions. So instead questions: On the continuum of change, do you define revolution as the point at which cities burn, skulls...