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The 'silent majority' agrees with me, voters believe – http://t.co/jUwUwuNj

A story about the rise of the modern Think Tank and how in a very strange way they have made thinking impossible. http://t.co/JKpzyjYY

Is Bayesianism Legal in Britain? http://t.co/JV4RZGD1

'Benevolent sexism' is not an oxymoron and has insidious consequences for women http://t.co/FX4ho8kP

Can't buy me love: Study shows materialistic couples have more money and more problems – http://t.co/85FukY9v

Daniel Kahneman: Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence – http://t.co/ObpVoW6g

Rationally Speaking: Engineers vs intellectuals? How Timothy Ferris gets it spectacularly wrong http://t.co/FePzwflb

RT @proffriedman – Apologies, Their Use and Meaning: A Course Module http://t.co/5TzO9UCS @SSRN

Euphemisms for Morally Disengaged Managers http://t.co/VyUmnxzU @psyfitec

RT @psyfitec – One Long Argument: A Big List of Behavioural Biases http://t.co/xYR9a4WR

What are the odds of your existence? http://t.co/69gEGAOY

During the 1990s, the US created 5 programs tasked with reducing the proliferation threat of WMD knowledge – http://t.co/bZlRStml

Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average http://t.co/nOx0hDmF via @comdig

Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality – http://t.co/ewKepqJb #scifi

IBM’s cognitive computing chip project has already made some initial progress – http://t.co/KvXH9Ut0

Infograph of the Year: Correlation and Causation via
@ReformedBroker – http://t.co/ebdgemGa

Why Do People Defend Unjust, Inept, and Corrupt Systems? http://t.co/op00bwgB

There have been over 40 recorded instances of people suffering from the Truman Show Delusion – http://t.co/3L49lVMK

By the 17th Century there was widespread anxiety that the sheer volume of available knowledge was getting out of hand http://t.co/czszlGD7

What goes on in the mind of a sniper? http://t.co/uGddRph0

A tipping point for the spread of ideas- http://t.co/tV4MwJVG

From Economics to Psychological Science: The Mechanics of Choice – http://t.co/82FQCMv4 via @AbnormalReturns

Via @SimoleonSense – What Moral Philosophy Tells Us About Income Inequality http://t.co/kHBMTyaU #tcm

Moral Intuitions: Are Philosophers Experts? http://t.co/LBjDGmjf #philosophy @ssrn #ethics

Via @MargRev – Dead and alive: Beliefs in contradictory conspiracy theories. http://t.co/NdyG596M #tcm

I actually don't have a problem with the idea of Vat-grown meat http://t.co/uojl9okv

You can't do the #math without the words – anumeric language; knowledge, perception and reasoning http://t.co/emApjY0d #tcm

What Conspiracy Theories Teach Us About Reason – http://t.co/CuV1LYOR

Is there a #Dopamine Fallacy? @HistorySquared thinks so. http://t.co/fmCh7Kbn

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior, motivated by positive attitudes to greed – http://t.co/Tz31Ihjo

How I Became a Troll: "Minds are changing far more slowly than social reality itself is" – http://t.co/el3r6JOb #tcm

MT @MarkThoma: America's 'great moral decline' – The Economist http://t.co/v5KwHvTx

Porn correlations – http://t.co/8xp91Ael

Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951): Paper http://t.co/P4sKDUZb and Wikipedia entry http://t.co/exHGmZ5r #tcm #philosophy

Data-snooping bias is a form of statistical bias that arises from this misuse of statistics – http://t.co/eNPScAos #tcm

"There is strong evidence that social networking is a valid way of assessing someone's personality" http://t.co/EzXN8DtA

@NewScientist: Analytical thinking erodes belief in God http://t.co/rpZlmn8H @newhumanist

Pro-reason bloggers are doing a better job than scientists at challenging alternative medicine – http://t.co/hQOSVBmQ

E-mails from an A**sshole: Comanche Quest http://t.co/cLXszkXB rather #funny if you don't mind the swearing

The hypothesis that believers' generosity is less motivated by compassion than non-believers' http://t.co/Uz327FwH @newhumanist

The unexpected hanging paradox – http://t.co/3ilQWgxf

RT @philoquotes: While we are postponing, life speeds by. ~ Seneca http://t.co/f4loa27z

RT @freakonometrics "Understanding errors, biases that can affect journalists" http://t.co/s7hlzz47

Cosma Shalzii: Cognitive Democracy – http://t.co/ElaoLHJf

When people switch hats, they often switch moral compasses – http://t.co/nFwqsHfc

The strong demand for charlatans http://t.co/mBBpJE9H via @markthoma

Belief in God may be crucially linked to cognitive ability to infer other peoples' mental states @newhumanist http://t.co/AGucQiO2

Model to predict pragmatic reasoning may lead to machines that better understand inference, context &social rules #tcm http://t.co/UrPfvJym

Dude, this headline is so meta http://t.co/LzfOuOKB

Economics as Moral Philosophy – Michael Sandel on his new book, What Money Can't Buy #tcm http://t.co/xwsFi5XT

Interesting: Philosophy and Simulation – The Emergence of Synthetic Reason #tcm http://t.co/VCLnP90l

Why It’s Sometimes Rational to Be Irrational @Davemosher talks to Matthew Hutson @silverjacket about magical thinking http://t.co/JrpshWUd

Blog of The International Cognition & Culture Institute http://t.co/FbnsdbCu

Crumbs. The International Journal of Machine Consciousness has a Special Issue on Mind Uploading #scifi http://t.co/17N3Okwb

Actually @AquilaRift u might like this: International Journal of Machine Consciousness Special Issue on Mind Uploading http://t.co/17N3Okwb

Self help: forget positive thinking, try positive action http://t.co/peP4cZHF

Curious: The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk http://t.co/yQGKJPY1

Study finds that when deciding whether to cooperate people do not act for their own reward, as previously believed #tcm http://t.co/vXsOrs2E

Introducing #Ecopsychology http://t.co/wXNA47SX

Contrasting studies measure altruism (http://t.co/7xoXeqtj) and spitefulness (http://t.co/pNDwfaUz) #psychology

JG Ballard and the alchemy of memory http://t.co/5ow8mH8D

How to be Unhappy http://t.co/mnvGbebB

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Kurtz who spent his career debunking psychics & UFOs, promoting science & reason over religious myths, has died http://t.co/Qj7iWWKN

Interesting. The philosophy of economics http://t.co/CHumn3P2

“Fantasy-reality confusion a primary cause of childhood nighttime fears” http://t.co/vi3iSaB7

No tabula rasa exists. We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea http://t.co/zcQ1EMvF

Somewhat depressing: 9 types of relationships young adults develop with celebrities http://t.co/ZwUu1Dfa

Lying is more malleable than previously thought, with training and instruction, the art of deception can be perfected http://t.co/GvK36cAH