Richard's Blog

How do we know what isn’t so? I want to recommend two books that address the problem of sorting through things in order to arrive at the truth of something. Thomas Kida has authored “Don’t Believe Everything You Think: the 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking.” Thomas Gilovich has authored “How we Know What [...]

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Published on Friday, January 1, 2010 by alternative news website CommonDreams.org The Real Top 10 News Stories of the Past Decade by Robert Freeman The media are awash with talking heads bloviating about the top stories of the last decade. The wired-in society. The growth of organic food. The new frugality. This is the ritual [...]