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Urgent: Prosecute JP Morgan

mercredi 24 décembre 2014 à 13:00

US citizens: call on Holder to prosecute JP Morgan.

Experiments on unwilling human subjects

mercredi 24 décembre 2014 à 13:00

If the American public considers torture acceptable, perhaps it will balk at destructive experiments on unwilling human subjects, which the CIA also did.

The two tend to go together (there are clear examples from German concentration camps).

Gun or power drill?

mercredi 24 décembre 2014 à 13:00

Can you tell a gun from a power drill in half a second? Seeing a picture of a black person's face makes some people see the drill as a gun. This is unconscious racism at work.

The article also describes simple methods of reducing these unconscious prejudices.

Proposals for Wall Street

mardi 23 décembre 2014 à 13:00

Eight proposals for how to make Wall Street cease to threaten the US economy.

First impressions

mardi 23 décembre 2014 à 13:00

The precise headline used for an article affects how readers understand it and which parts of it they remember later.

This is part of the general human tendency to stick with first impressions or first conclusions, and not change them sufficiently when subsequent information calls for correcting them.

This is, for instance, why it is so important to talk about "free/libre software" and not "open source".