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Remedial reading: Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free, by Jed Rakoff.
“But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. 22 Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult … Continue reading
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Remedial reading: AI and faith.
My dad, the statistician, used to lecture my brother and me on the importance of population size. He would say “in a town of 800 people, serious crime is a rare thing, almost unheard of. But in a population of … Continue reading
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Remedial reading: The Primacy of Doubt.
Last Saturday, a uniquely-trusted source sent me this e-mail: I am reading Tim Palmer’s new book “The Primacy of Doubt” … if, by chance, you have not yet read this one, I think you would love it. Advice from a … Continue reading
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Remedial reading. April Lawson’s essay on building trust across the political divide.
You’ll want to read her absolutely brilliant and uplifting 2021 article. But first please indulge a bit of LOTRW backstory. Each year, come January 1, most of the world’s eight billion people share a common aspiration – to make their … Continue reading
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Remedial reading, and (noting the season), a regifting of the same: Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for Invitational Rhetoric.
A week or so ago, had the pleasure to be interviewed as part of a survey conducted by Ioanna Cionea, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. At the session’s end, when I discovered that professor Cionea did research … Continue reading
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Remedial Reading: Mike Hulme’s 2009 book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Want to make any scientist you know feel shame and guilt? Ask them about some journal publication or book bearing on their research that they should have read, but haven’t. Scientists are brought up from their earliest experience to know … Continue reading
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Remedial Reading: an August 2017 Pew Charitable Trust report on the flooding threat to U.S. Public Schools
In mid-November, the AMS and its Policy Program ran a two-day workshop on the 2017 hurricane season and its implications for U.S. hazards policy. One of the collateral benefits of any such undertaking is that participants share prior work and … Continue reading
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(More) remedial reading: three remarkable books, and a call to action.
“In old days books were written by men [sic] of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.” – Oscar Wilde “That is a good book which is opened with expectation … Continue reading
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Remedial reading… from the Huffington Post and The Economist
“Our job is to ensure that NOAA is as relevant fifteen years from now as it is today.” – John Knauss, during his tenure as Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, 1989-1993. President George Bush[1] had initially considered … Continue reading
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Technology transfer: remedial reading.
Thanksgiving provided me time for family (never enough!), but it also gave opportunity for some remedial reading[1] bearing on the process by which scientific and technical advance are harvested for societal benefit. There’s much food for thought in these two … Continue reading
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