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Larr; Meat Eater. The No News Diet. February 13, 2013 Author:. Not too long ago I wrote a short post about Antifragile. At the time I wrote that post, I was working on this review, with plans to submit it to a few publications. Alas, I came to find out that several other reviewers beat me to the punch. The beauty (and perhaps tragedy too) of having a blog is that no piece of writing goes to waste — there is always a place to publish your writing. Sorry about that! In The Bed of Procrustes. Or, what shoul...

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» The Case Against the Marathon Coffee Theory

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Larr; Book Review: Made by Hand. The Allure of the Aphorism. The Case Against the Marathon. September 21, 2011 Author:. When Did Running Long-Distances Become Healthy? Sprinted explosively at decisive moments in their hunts and spent a lot of time walking slowly over long distances to track down animals or gather other foods. They likely never jogged at a medium intensity for long periods of time simply because it was a waste of precious energy. Alas, we live in a modern world in which we could survive w...

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» Book Review: Fooled By Randomness Coffee Theory

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Larr; Good Calories, Bad Calories. Book Review: Fooled By Randomness. May 25, 2010 Author:. I think I first read. 2006 Recently, I felt a longing to reread Taleb’s first non-technical book again. Wow, what a wise decision that was! For our failures. Is your rich neighbor or your boss really as skilled as she thinks she is? Parts of the book are also about the hindsight bias and the narrative fallacy. We humans are great at fabricating. One of Taleb’s favorite philosophers is Karl Popper. Howeve...Yet, th...

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» A Brief History of the American Front Lawn Coffee Theory

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Larr; Are Kids Cheaper Than We Think? Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death? A Brief History of the American Front Lawn. July 28, 2013 Author:. Like many Americans, I recently suffered the great inconvenience of pulling weeds from my lawn due to social mores. Is the cost of pulling weeds really worth the aesthetic benefit? Perhaps, but this belief of mine could stem from something other than aesthetics. If so, why is it exactly that I care about whether or not my lawn is full of weeds? Viriginia Scott Jenkin...

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» Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death? Coffee Theory

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Larr; A Brief History of the American Front Lawn. Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death? July 17, 2013 Author:. Amusing Ourselves To Death. The late cultural critic Neil Postman was one of these thinkers who saw the cultural decay in America. In. Amusing Ourselves to Death. 1] See my essay: “Longing for the Human Golden Age”. Without Death Can There Be Life? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You must be logged in. To post a comment. Larr; A Brief History of the American Front Lawn. Have just discovered your. Metap...

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» Book Review: The Black Swan Coffee Theory

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Larr; Book Review: Last Call. Book Review: A Week at the Airport. Book Review: The Black Swan. October 27, 2010 Author:. The polemicist Simon Foucher warned that, “we are dogma-prone from our mother’s wombs.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s philosophical work,. Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read? Representing things we don’t know) is more valuable to us than are the books we’ve already read (or things we already know). Early on we also learn that Taleb classifies himself as a.

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February 13, 2013. Not too long ago I wrote a short post about Antifragile. At the time I wrote that post, I was working on this review, with plans to submit it to a few publications. Alas, I came to find out that several other reviewers beat me to the punch. The beauty (and perhaps tragedy too) of having a blog is that no piece of writing goes to waste — there is always a place to publish your writing. Sorry about that! In The Bed of Procrustes. Or, what should we call something that is the exact opposi...

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» Protect the Environment: Eat Global! Coffee Theory

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Larr; Mistaking Repetition for Truth. In Praise of Inefficiency. Protect the Environment: Eat Global! April 12, 2011 Author:. I care about food and the food system a great deal so what I’m about to say is going to be considered heresy amongst most people who share those values. Bear with me. Do you make your own clothes? Is fond of saying, “self-sufficiency is the road to poverty”. In his book,. Two economists recently concluded, after studying the issue, that the entire concept of food miles is ‘a...

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» Greg Linster Coffee Theory

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November 8, 2013. Are elite athletes born that way or made that way through training? Or does that question present a false dichotomy? David Epstein attempts to answer these questions in a very entertaining and readable way. Another interesting fact I gleaned from this book is the following: “the CDC’s data suggest that of American men ages twenty to forty who stand seven feet tall, a startling 17 percent of them are in the NBA right now. No matter what your initial answers to those two questions I initi...