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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Innumeracy&#8221; by John Allen Paulos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Good Introduction and a Light Read &#8220;Innumeracy&#8221; is at heart a book on the use, misuse, and abuse of statistics and probability that are made by a (unfortunately) large number of people (this reader included). Paulos has managed to make a quick read that is packed with facts and examples of numerical illiteracy. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;The Evolution of Cooperation&#8221; by Robert Axelrod</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practical, insightful, and delightful. (5 out of 5 stars.) Axelrod&#8217;s &#8220;The Evolution of Cooperation&#8221; delivers ideas that are at the same time obvious but surprisingly insightful to human nature. It is a small and readable book which every chapter left me thinking, &#8220;Of course, why didn&#8217;t I think of it like that?&#8221; The core of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness&#8221; by Alva Noe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting, but ultimately disappointing and unconvincing. (2 out of 5 stars) Noe avoids mystical explanations and the supernatural. He doesn&#8217;t put forth souls or the vague appeals to quantum mechanics that are the hallmarks of new age quackery. And while he skates close, he doesn&#8217;t present consciousness as just merely a postmodern social construction. “Out [...]]]></description>
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