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Smart people are especially prone to stupid mistakes / Boing Boing

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Jun 13, 2012. Smart people are especially prone to stupid mistakes. From the Boing Boing Shop. Jonah Lehrer takes to. To discuss Thinking, Fast and Slow. This has particularly grim implications for a society that thinks it is a meritocracy but is really an oligarchy. Because the competitively educated people at the top believe (incorrectly) that they don't need to have their intuitions reviewed by lesser mortals. What explains this result? Why Smart People Are Stupid. GET THE BOING BOING NEWSLETTER.

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LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer / Boing Boing

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Mar 7, 2012. LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer. From the Boing Boing Shop. Has more on the big hacking news. Which Fox News broke yesterday. As noted in a post by Rob. Here's the FBI news release. Which notably omits the names of any prosecutors (perhaps for fear of Anonymous attack). A second document shows that Monsegur styled this time as CW-1 provided an FBI-owned computer to facilitate the release of 5m emails taken from US security co...

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RIP, Aaron Swartz / Boing Boing

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Jan 12, 2013. RIP, Aaron Swartz. From the Boing Boing Shop. Click for ongoing posts about Aaron, his memorial service, his death, and the malicious prosecution brought by the DoJ against him. To the extent possible under law, Cory Doctorow. He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius. A soul, a conscience, the source of a question I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think? Aaron accomplished some incredible things in his life. He was one of the early builders of Reddit (someone always...

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Valve employee manual describes the greatest workplace I've ever heard of / Boing Boing

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Apr 22, 2012. Valve employee manual describes the greatest workplace I've ever heard of. From the Boing Boing Shop. Valve's employee manual may just be the single best workplace manifesto I've ever read. Seriously: it describes a utopian Shangri-La of a workplace that makes me wish - for the first time in my life - that I had a "real" job. It is so goddamned good that I couldn't pick just one (or two) passages to quote. Why do I need to pick my own projects? If you’re working here, that means you’re good...

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Mid-Century Modern housing designs vs children / Boing Boing

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Apr 7, 2013. Mid-Century Modern housing designs vs children. From the Boing Boing Shop. 15 Mid-Century Modern Dream Homes that will Kill Your Children. GET THE BOING BOING NEWSLETTER. What did Lochte say after his teammates told the police what really happened? What did Lochte say after his teammates told the police what really happened? 8220;…and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you medaling kids! 8221; (bbfan23 via r/jokes) US swimmer Lochte, Brazil police differ on robbery story (CNN).

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NATO protests in Chicago: Police van drives into protesters, web video reporters detained, held at gunpoint (photos+video) / Boing Boing

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May 20, 2012. NATO protests in Chicago: Police van drives into protesters, web video reporters detained, held at gunpoint (photos video). From the Boing Boing Shop. Photo: C.S. Muncy. Occupy" movement participants and an array of protest groups are among those gathering in Chicago this wekeend to demonstrate outside the NATO summit. Sunday, protesters are ramping up for the largest demonstration. Photo: C.S. Muncy. And testimony from people who were. WE HAVE BEEN RAIDED SOS. Detained, and handcuffed by C...

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Scientists claim the way a person answers simple math problem is a good predictor of their belief in a religion / Boing Boing

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Apr 26, 2012. Scientists claim the way a person answers simple math problem is a good predictor of their belief in a religion. From the Boing Boing Shop. Q: If a baseball and bat cost $110, and the bat costs $100 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost? If you answered $10 you are inclined to believe in religion. If you answered $5 you are inclined to disbelieve. Because, according to new research reported in tomorrow's issue of the journal. Image from swaimsketching's photostream. With the cacop...

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Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta, creator of the Hexayurt / Boing Boing

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Oct 24, 2011. Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta, creator of the Hexayurt. From the Boing Boing Shop. No, no. Vinay packed up and went west to the American desert. There he did work with the Rocky Mountain Institute (he was on the editorial team for Small is Profitable. And Winning the Oil Endgame. Give us a quick history of the hexayurt. So the Hexayurt Project story starts on The Farm, the 70s era hippie commune linked to midwives, tofu and The Well. I visited The Farm. Albert Bates o...