Meta confirmation bias

How educating yourself makes you even more biased.

The story our probes tell about us

Beautiful photo collage from the many, many picture Spirit has taken:



And here a vivacious, yes even spiritual presentation about the sub-polar rover missions on Mars:
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Flapp flapp

I am currently re-reading Taleb's Black Swan and besides it still being a real treat, I have to admit that I actually not only start grasping finer details during this 2nd read, but that I actually had gotten his central thesis slightly wrong the first time around. So, good books are definitely worth reading twice, especially in case your comprehension of the world is rather slow, like mine.

I wish I could carry such a beautiful conversation ...

... and if you do not agree with me you'll get one of your geek credits revoked. ;-)

Finding out about our hidden biases ...

... and why role models are so important.

Cool to see my hunch about this topic being corroborated by scientific findings.

Why small-pox vaccination was considered a sin ...

... and why this fact totally eluded you.

A great summariser of history

Yes, this is how I spend my days off. ;-)