Here’s something I’m tossing out there: why do people pray? I’ve realized for some time that there are simple tricks that can fool people into thinking something works for actually accomplishing things: confirmation bias (remembering the hits and forgetting the misses), as well as a general tendency to see patters in randomness (a finding that’s [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Review: The Penguin Essays of George Orwell
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 1, 2008
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This is a book I picked up while browsing at the University library for other books on Orwell, and am very happy for the random find. For those who want to track it down, the copyright page says the edition was put out in 2000 with just /Essays/ as the title, but originally was put [...]