People Are Strange

There is an experiment in pricing where you offer people an $8 bottle of wine and a $15 bottle of wine. In this scenario, the majority of people buy the $8 bottle. But add a $50 bottle of wine to the list and you find a majority of people by the $15 bottle. People are […]

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Asimov with Moyers

While fiddling around on YouTube the other day I came upon this set of videos. Awesome discussion, especially about education and learning styles, and especially given the date of the conversation. Everyone is different. Love it.

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This is Good

I admit I’m not sure what I should feel about it all. I want to be happy that Osama bin Laden is dead, and I am. It is a strange thing, however, to be happy that someone is dead. It gives me, perhaps, a very small sense of what it felt like to be alive […]

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Finding Fault

Yes, I suppose it’s about $700B of corporate greed.  And yes, I agree it’s not a good idea to reward bad decisions by paying off the big-wigs who made them.  But I think that’as all missing the point. I was talking to a co-worker the other day and I said: You know, I really don’t […]

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