February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Michael Crichton:
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward – reversing...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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