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TED Talk: System D and the Power of the Informal Economy @RobertNeuwirth #tcm

"This all sounds very scientific – but the problem is, it isn’t": The limitations of probabilistic decision making #tcm http://t.co/W2gkNkD7

"We think we can definitely decouple growth in aviation… from the growth in emissions…" – UK Aviation. Hmmm. http://t.co/bUgVwTMq

RT @moneyscience: Hey/ You want to see something cool? It's #FractalFriday! High Res version: http://t.co/bMnzcEaf low res: http://t.co/ …

Bridge #fractal #fractalart #mandelbox #scifiart #scifi #art #cgi #sciencefiction #3dfractal http://t.co/Gb2cBIhh

In the world of online business there is legit, dodgy & very dodgy: Google blacklists sites run by UK MP Grant Shapps http://t.co/TesubRh8

Five Minutes With: Ben Goldacre – great stuff @bengoldacre http://t.co/ycFlN9uM

UK government earmarks £10m for open access publishing

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Philosophy v science, and 'Mission Creep' in #Physics. #tcm http://t.co/QtnoZCe9

First session: sourcing data for sentiment analysis models, news vs Social networking #quantbattle @robpas on the panel

How do you measure veracity? Meta-data can help. In terms of market movement, true & false stories have impact #quantbattle

Back at The RI for Day 2 of Battle of the Quants. #bqlondon slightly ironic to me that the birthplace of ele http://t.co/imda5Zmy

Nikola Tesla: The patron saint of geeks? http://t.co/Moz1AXFx

The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity http://t.co/nuto38O7

IRC and AIM are the user manuals to every back-end customer service system in corporate America http://t.co/CgTB4aYI

'Spin' in media reports of scientific articles – interesting? @BenGoldacre http://t.co/4e0KnBhF

Aaron Clauset & Ryan Woodard try to calculate probability of another 9/11 sized attack http://t.co/TltKvtXW Paper here: http://t.co/ac2MCYlR

RT @moneyscience: Crikey! It's #FractalFriday – High Res version http://t.co/7FOnGmDi – Low Res: http://t.co/vjv59ywV

#ff @aussietorres @sethmcguire @RobPas @dianamaynard @RobertNeuwirth @deanlebaron @marketpsychdata @annareitman @JofFinance

Overdue thanks & #FF: @corpcon_krise @fareastdan @paultclarke @GTCost @DuncanLawrie @nachrichtenlos @msgbi @HFPR @GilbertLiou

Whoever made the anti-Islam film got exactly what they wanted http://t.co/bi8EEuqS

@Herring1967 Really like ur blog, but not enough to visit ur site every day. Can you provide full-text RSS? Easier for tablet / loo-reading

RT @AmnestyBooksBrs: Our famous £1 sale under way again on Gloucester Rd – one price for all books, CDs, DVDs. Come and stock up! Runs ' …

Philosophy: Nagel reviews: “Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism" by Alvin Plantinga http://t.co/l6a9zXVg

Follow-up: Criticism of Nagel's Review of Plantinga http://t.co/Kv1TX6AR

Fantastic cartton from xkcd: Click and Drag http://t.co/VgwNO7Mp

If ignorance was an Olympic event, the heats would be held in the comment sections of national newspapers http://t.co/wHa0QxHG

The more people rely on their intuitions, the more cooperative they become http://t.co/uUfA0Odf

The next big thing is already here http://t.co/HFFDX29w

Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment http://t.co/rcTPS8bu

Rare earth metals: Will we have enough? http://t.co/JMVmE6BT

Brilliant: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 http://t.co/V81q6AV9

RT @moneyscience: No Joke: It's #FractalFriday – High Res Version: http://t.co/nJn6XBF6 Low Res: http://t.co/UaCIpnQZ

You do have to wonder if Steve Jobs would have permitted a sub-standard release of iOS… What does this say about $AAPL mgmt now?

Last year, UK gov released a newsletter highlighting the problem of what it called People Lacking Everyday Basic Skills http://t.co/uUpLQQet

Grant Shapps “must make a full statement on his past and why he found it necessary to use an alias to conduct business” http://t.co/e3u9DHC4

Depressing:Living standards report shows bleak future of a divided Britain http://t.co/adlXTD3t

Computational Origami http://t.co/g2ywsNMo

Spontaneous giving and calculated greed http://t.co/SGQ1Cb2m

How to confuse a moral compass http://t.co/2t49lzuP

With serious reporting of global warming by US media virtually nonexistent, it's no wonder Americans are in denial http://t.co/YDsISVy4

Video – Black tie tax-avoidance activists crash HMRC boss' retirement function http://t.co/ioLDkMin via @BenGoldacre

How Google Builds Its Maps-and What It Means for the Future of Everything http://t.co/7aadxiLA

Analysis finds that 93% of climate info on Fox News prime time & 81% on the WSJ Opinion pages is misleading http://t.co/AWud1P9y

Scary US Missionaries in Public Schools – http://t.co/J5usEzZt

New Image: The Hubble Extreme Deep Field http://t.co/5Iv6JKtt

Classic: Richard Feynman – Cargo Cult Science, Adapted from Caltech commencement address in 1974. http://t.co/8dz2eiNj

RT @moneyscience: Strike-a-light! It's #FractalFriday High res version here: http://t.co/EqhBfddj Low Res: http://t.co/7OXLFq2a #fractal

Appropriately enough for #FractalFriday: Fractal Cats Illustrate Endless Possibilities for Julia Sets via @standupmaths http://t.co/Er720Mop

The impossibility of meritocracy? http://t.co/1Vnb1dGg

“The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe” http://t.co/v1i0CONi

Drugs are tested by manufacturers, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of unrepresentative patients http://t.co/tNbuftsa

Shell has rejected a plea from French rival Total that energy industry should abandon its search for oil in the Arctic http://t.co/8OHVgZx1

U go to a casino to feel like James Bond. The last thing they want is for u to catch a glimpse of urself in the mirror http://t.co/Ld7X7tqE

3D #Fractal Vids by yours truly: http://t.co/PN5AN5so, http://t.co/bFJu5zTx, http://t.co/68pltBi7 #fractalart #mandelbox

'The Odd Women' is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing, set in #Clevedon http://t.co/fVevnnFt

Pretty crazy story of 21-year-old UCLA math major, who left $9k-a-month internship to fight in Libya

MT @msgbi: Mandelbrot: Art, math, science, and works in progress http://t.co/iwTN9QEI @moneyscience @rszbt

"It's a choice I've made, making people who care about me worry": Video Profile of Wingsuit World Champion Espen Fadnes http://t.co/4BoyH9TC

Whatever happened to Diaspora – It's Complicated http://t.co/CxbikyNa

Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation? http://t.co/MWJvDP4x

The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle http://t.co/cSRLq9oV

Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence http://t.co/AcvoUFqF

Only 3 people! How many were tweeting? RT @BrisDemoc #Clevedon Town Council and Twitter – The results so far… – http://t.co/2NvHC8Ep

RT @moneyscience: In case you were wondering. It's #FractalFriday – high res version http://t.co/MNSPDcMU low res: http://t.co/gCzIcevr

What Does One Wear on a 23-Mile Space Jump? http://t.co/O6GohxcH

RT @pkedrosky: Holy smokes: Quantum computer maker D-Wave Systems raises $30M (making $61m now invested) – http://t.co/UWZPyIMw

Online passwords: keep it complicated. http://t.co/D3VZXZnJ

It takes a certain type of economist to know what to do when a belligerent fleet attacks an interstellar trading post http://t.co/eZ0BgBNs

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams

With funding from the Amazon founder and the CIA's investment arm, Quantum Computing company D-Wave is gaining momentum http://t.co/YVGCS5X3

#fractal #fractalart #mandelbox #scifiart #scifi #art #cgi #3dfractal #sciencefiction #cgi #math #complexity http://t.co/tQRJQQCe

The Marshmallow Study revisited: Delaying gratification depends as much on nurture as on nature http://t.co/PRlge8s0

The good, the bad, and the guilty: Anticipating feelings of guilt predicts ethical behavior http://t.co/tc4Gvl47

@Herring1967 been bothering me all day Rich. Maybe u didn't bump into JLC by chance. Maybe he wanted u to see him. Maybe he wanted a chat.

It's that time: #FractalFriday – High Res version here http://t.co/apiPrZyz low res here: http://t.co/2PZonour

Nobel Peace Prize. Europe. Eh? http://t.co/xu2M6Sd5

Woah. The UK’s Templeton Foundation has awarded a $200k grant to look for Dyson spheres http://t.co/Db9581BX

Very nice indeed RT @Schizodoxe: A lire ou relire sur SDX : Le voyage interieur http://t.co/XMjhaCUx #fractale #mandelbox #mathématique

#fractal #fractalart #mandelbox #art #3dfractal #math #complexity #psychedelic http://t.co/ZYfOaTUu