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 Tuesday, June 01 2004
 

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Learning to Expect the Unexpected

”We are not made for type-2 randomness. How can humans take into account the role of uncertainty in our lives without moralizing? As Steven Pinker aptly said, our mind is made for fitness, not for truth – but fitness for a different probabilistic structure. Which tricks work? Here is one: avoid the media. We are not rational enough to be exposed to the press. It is a very dangerous thing, because the probabilistic mapping we get from watching television is entirely different from the actual risks that we are exposed to. How can we live in a society in the twenty-first century while at the same time have intuitions made for a hundred million years ago?"

That’s author and mathematical trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb, talking about the problems inherent in the way many people think and act in the face of uncertainty in a recent edition of John Brockman’s ’Edge’. Some readers may be familiar with Taleb’s provocative book Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, which was published a few years ago and continues to receive enthusiastic reviews from investors all over the world.


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 Thursday, March 18 2004
 

Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence
by Charles D. Ellis

Through interviews with dozens of current and former executives as well as years of in-depth research, Ellis explains the organizational culture and long-term investment strategies that have helped Capital achieve superior investment results and grow globally. You’ll learn why Capital excels in the mutual fund business with its American Funds and how it pioneered in discovering investment opportunities in emerging markets. Along the way, you’ll also get an up-close-and-personal look at the individuals who built the business from the ground up: Jonathan Bell Lovelace, Jon Lovelace, Coleman Morton, Howard Schow, Jim Fullerton, Ward Bishop, Bill Newton, and many others.




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 Thursday, March 18 2004
 

BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World
by Michael Fumento

Living up to his reputation as our premier science and health "myth buster," Fumento sorts out science from nonsense in this broad view of the amazing new age of biotechnology. He shows, for example, that the bitter fight over embryonic stem cells is a distraction from wonders already being performed with non-embryonic adult stem cells. He counters both the emotional and scientific claims against so-called "Frankenfood," to show how it will help feed a growing world population even as it draws upon fewer resources.

"BioEvolution" isn't futurist "techno-utopianism," but science fact that reads like science fiction because of the wonders it describes. Most of the dramatic advances it describes are already far along the research pipeline and will come to fruition in ten years, five years, or less. Michael Fumento shows that as far as biotech is concerned, the future is now.




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 Thursday, March 18 2004
 

Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by Steven Johnson

Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works -- its chemicals, structures, and subroutines -- and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug.




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 Thursday, March 18 2004
 

The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki

It has become increasingly recognized that the average opinions of groups is frequently more accurate than most individuals in the group. As a special case, economists have spoken of the role of markets in assembling dispersed information. The author has written a most interesting survey of the many studies in this area and discussed the limits as well as the achievements of self-organization.




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