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“Don’t believe everything you think.”

Author Thomas Kida identifies "the six-pack of problems" that leads many of us unconsciously to accept false ideas:

· We prefer stories to statistics.

· We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas.

· We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events.

· We sometimes misperceive the world around us.

· We tend to oversimplify our thinking.

· Our memories are often inaccurate.

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Believe-Everything-You-Think/dp/1591024080

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“Only a body dominated by millionaires could define ‘shared sacrifice’ as telling nurses’ aides and coal miners they have to work until age 69 while sharply cutting tax rates on wealthy people. I see why conservative Republicans like this. I honestly don’t get why Democrats–‘the party of the people,’ I’ve heard – would come near such an idea.” – EJ Dionne Jr

E.J. Dionne Jr. – The Tea Party is winning

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"The Anthropocene represents a new phase in the history of both humankind and of the Earth, when natural forces and human forces became intertwined, so that the fate of one determines the fate of the other. Geologically, this is a remarkable episode in the history of this planet."

How humans are changing the world

Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the University of Leicester Department of Geology led the production of the studies into the Anthropocene — a new geological epoch distinguished by the change that man has wrought upon the earth.

Dr Zalasiewicz said: "At the beginning of this millennium, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen suggested that we are now living in a new geological interval of time that is dominated by human activities. He termed this the Anthropocene. Since then, the Anthropocene has increasingly been used both by scientists and by the public as in indication of the scale of human change to planet Earth.

How humans are changing the world

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“It is a sad commentary on the state of the modern GOP that ultra-conservative Justice Scalia has transformed into a voice of moderation against the even more radical Tea Party.” [in nay-saying ‘Tentherism’ (gag)]

ThinkProgress » Scalia Slaps Down GOP’s Tentherism

[I]it is a sad commentary on the state of the modern GOP that ultra-conservative Justice Scalia has transformed into a voice of moderation against the even more radical Tea Party.

ThinkProgress » Scalia Slaps Down GOP’s Tentherism

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“I blame the individual for the first 10 bullets. I blame the law for the next 21 bullets that he fired.”–Lawrence O’Donnell [Amen.]

ThinkProgress » Rep. Trent Franks Refuses To Admit That Fewer Bullets Harm Fewer People

Last night on MSNBC during an interview with Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), host Lawrence O’Donnell noted that the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, was subdued only after he stopped to reload his 31-bullet clip and argued that perhaps other innocents would have been spared if Republicans had extended a law banning larger magazine clips in 2004.

“I blame the individual for the first 10 bullets. I blame the law for the next 21 bullets that he fired.”

ThinkProgress » Rep. Trent Franks Refuses To Admit That Fewer Bullets Harm Fewer People