Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Top posts of the year?

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I’m hoping that most of us bloggers will do what some folks did last December: create a top 10 (or so) list of their favorite / most important / most popular blog posts of the calendar year. I found some really great posts last year that I had missed because some bloggers did this.

I’m already thinking about what mine might be!

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Big Think Books

Why don’t Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator.

For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.

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On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.

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Our jobs and AI: Why the 4-day week should anchor our work-lives

A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.

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