I’m not the kind of guy who takes pleasure in just sitting around. In fact, one of my mantras is “Motion is Lotion.” However, due to a bout with influenza last week, I’ve spent the last ten days being relatively still. But, was my body truly at rest? I’ve been thinking about this notion for …
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Last week I discussed Philip Tetlock’s work that revealed the utter meaninglessness of punditry in The Illusion of Punditry. It is important to note that although professional pundits, on average, were less accurate than random chance, a few outliers actually performed well above average. Tetlock closely examined the variables associated with the distribution of accuracy …
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According to the website at the Museo di Storia della Scienza Galileo’s finger was detached by Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, when Galileo’s remains were moved from the original grave to the monumental tomb at Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. The finger became the property of Angelo Maria Bandini and was long …
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