Monday, January 10, 2011

Links ...

  1. Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy: INSANELY awesome solar eclipse picture.

  2. James Choi at The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog: Evidence of professional soccer player chokes [A post on a forthcoming paper by Jose Apesteguia and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta entitled Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment].

  3. Eric Schoenberg at Huffington Post: Zombie Economics and Just Deserts: Why the Right Is Winning the Economic Debate

  4. Dan Ariely at Predictably Irrational: A gentler and more logical economics

  5. Could this really be John Venn's original Venn Diagram? ;-)

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  1. Ludwig11:03 AM, January 11, 2011

    The Venn one was really fun!

    You have surely seen this goosebump introducing one?

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/suntransit/

    Simultaneous awe for humanity and the cosmos etc...

    Also, on the subject of Venn, the "INSANELY awesome" Eddie Izzard (a sort of geek standup comic) has this to say:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBpWwC9qNpA

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