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[1] From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG> (16)
Subject: Ubiquity 4.10
[2] From: Tim van Gelder <tgelder@unimelb.edu.au> (91)
Subject: April Additions to Critical Thinking On the Web
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:52:15 +0100
From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.10
Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM
Volume 4, Number 10, Week of April 28, 2003
In this issue:
View --
Is E-learning Really the Future or a Risk?
Can e-learning investment decisions be justifiable with the rate in which
technology evolves?
By Charles A. Shoniregun and Sarah-Jane Gray
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_3.html
Job Applications and Network Security, or, How to Not Limit the Online
Applicant Pool
Employers discourage potential applicants by not offering secure methods
for submitting personal information.
By Trevis J. Rothwell
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/t_rothwell_3.html
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:52:40 +0100
From: Tim van Gelder <tgelder@unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: April Additions to Critical Thinking On the Web
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Latest Additions:
30 Apr
in Health and Medicine
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/health/nutrition/29VITA.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=>Vitamins:
More May Be Too Many by Gina Kolata
Discusses evidence that "vitamin supplements cannot correct for a poor
diet, that multivitamins have not been shown to prevent any disease and
that it is easy to reach high enough doses of certain vitamins and minerals
to actually increase the risk of disease." Sample of what Kolata finds:
"Vitamin E supplements can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes,
and studies of vitamin C supplements consistently failed to show that it
had any beneficial effects. "The two vitamins that are the most not needed
are the ones most often taken," Dr. Russell said." [30 Apr 03]
29 Apr
in Group Thinking
<http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html>Why Do Some
Societies Make Disastrous
Decisions<http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html>? by
Jared Diamond
"What I'm going to suggest is a road map of factors in failures of group
decision making. I'll divide the answers into a sequence of four somewhat
fuzzily delineated categories. First of all, a group may fail to anticipate
a problem before the problem actually arrives. Secondly, when the problem
arrives, the group may fail to perceive the problem. Then, after they
perceive the problem, they may fail even to try to solve the problem.
Finally, they may try to solve it but may fail in their attempts to do so."
[29 Apr 03]
26 Apr
in Miscellaneous and Fun
<http://www.brunching.com/argueusenet.html>How to Argue on Usenet by Lore
Sjberg
"It saddens and distracts me to know how many out there don't know how to
properly behave on that great landfill of the intellect known as Usenet. It
is for them that this guide was created..." [26 Apr 03]
22 Apr
in Experts and Expertise
<http://www.vocabula.com/2003/VRAPRIL03Halpern.asp>It's safe to predict...
yes, unfortunately by Mark Halpern. Target: media experts.
"Experts and authorities are forever making predictions (many of them about
the future), being proved wrong by events, and then continuing their career
as experts or authorities without missing a beat; there seems to be little
reason to be careful." Singles out one Ms. Judith Kipper for special
attention. [requires subscription] [22 Apr 03]
13 Apr
in Postmodernism and All That - Essays
See also Blackburn's
<http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=11896>Richard
Rorty, which explains how to keep your head while all about you are losing
theirs. "Piece by piece, then, it looks as if the traditional building
blocks of western thought - representation, truth, objectivity, knowledge -
can and must survive Rorty's battering...Meanwhile, there are morals to be
drawn. One moral is that we should beware of the level of abstraction at
which many postmodernists, including Rorty, tend to operate. We have to
drag them back to the everyday."
3 Apr
in Miscellaneous and Fun
<http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=390625>Encyclopedia
of Stupidity - review by Stephen Bayley
Somewhat amusing, as you'd hope and expect on this topic. But there is some
good meat on this bone - particularly the many pointers to previous
classics in the literature on stupidity. I didn't know so much had been
written on this topic. [3 Apr 03]
30 Mar
in Great Critical Thinkers
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?030331on_onlineonly02>Noam
Chomsky's Moment from The New Yorker.
A rich trove of links to Chomsky's speeches, addresses, and writings
online. Chomsky: you may not agree with him, but until you've heard him
out, you've only got half the story. And, as Mill stressed, without the
missing half, you can't claim to be making a well-founded judgment.
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