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Unskilled and Unaware and Nuclear Weapons

This post is another grab bag of stuff I’ve been sending myself, telling myself to put it on the blog. First up is this cool post about the clueless in our society. Called Unskilled and Unaware of it, this post to Damn Interesting goes over the fact that most people think they are above average, even though, of course, there is no mathematical way that can be true. Based on some internal newsgroup discussion of this post at work, I recently ordered the book “The Logic of Failure”. Very funny and interesting stuff. Best quote from the article, “the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt” – Bertrand Russell.

Next up on the list is this article on the very early moments of nuclear detonation. Lots cool photos of nuclear device tests, including guide wires turning into plasma.

Last is this article from Bruce Schneier’s blog about the 1.9 trillion call database that AT&T has, going back decades! So much for privacy.

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