![]() ![]() ![]() They’ve even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people-including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer-who set out to forecast global events. In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. ![]() What makes some people so good? And can this talent be taught? ![]() However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight, and Tetlock has spent the past decade trying to figure out why. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts’ predictions are only slightly better than chance. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The text is often drawn into the art making it difficult to even find much less read. What story there is, is a bit of an incoherent mess. This is a surreal dream taking place as Kabuki is bleeding out on her mother's grave at the end of Circle of Blood. ![]() But given this was originally published at a now defunct comic company, Caliber Press, that's not surprising.ĭreams: Mack throws us a curveball after Circle of Blood. The transfers aren't the best, especially the text when it's white lettering on a black background, it can be difficult to read. In that respect it's influenced by the early Vertigo comic writers. Most pages are intended as full art pieces with poetic language used as narration. At times, it feels it does want to be The Crow but I like how you can see the art evolve with each issue. It looks gorgeous but is difficult to read and comprehend.Ĭircle of Blood: For an indie comic written 25 years ago, this holds up remarkably well. Dreams is in full color, experimental and surreal, using mixed media and painted art. Circle of Blood tells a complete story drawn in black and white. ![]() The first 2 volumes collected within are in direct juxtaposition to one another. The story can be a bit obtuse in places but I didn't find it hard to follow. As a warning, there is a LOT of violence towards women and children. The story is about a team of female assassins working for a shadowy Japanese government group that takes out criminals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession-an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. WHATEVER doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Home Poe's Short Stories E-Text: Mesmeric RevelationĮ-Text Poe's Short Stories Mesmeric Revelation ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life. ![]() Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. The personal tale of Musk’s life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior. Musk wants to save our planet he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars he wants to make money while doing these things and he wants us all to know about it. ![]() South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The interweaving of current and past are done artfully. Kelly has never given up trying to find her and occasionally Claire or Kelly uncover clues as to Tracy’s whereabouts.Lastly, Claire reminisces about a case that she and Tracy worked on, the disappearance of their friend Chloe.I really like the way Sara Gran writes. One day, Tracy disappeared and has not been heard of since. And the search begins.Along with this storyline are flashbacks to Claire’s teen life in Brooklyn, NY where she, Tracy and Kelly were detectives. Along with Paul found shot to death in his den, it was discovered that several of his guitars were missing. During her stay abroad, Paul started going out with Lydia, who he ultimately married. Knowing Claire you’d realize that relationships are not her thing and she and Paul were getting too close for her comfort level. The constant references to these activities detracts from what could have been a really good book.Having moved from New Orleans in the first book to San Francisco in the second, Claire is trying to find out who killed her friend Paul, someone she’d been with before she relocated suddenly to Peru. When I reviewed Sara Gran’s previous book, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, I described the main character as: “She’s rough, tattooed, pot smoking, gritty and unorthodox.” Well, in Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, she’s graduated to a full fledged drug addict, constantly snorting coke, popping pills and drinking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Church in Rome now saw an opportunity not only to demonstrate its power, which had become increasingly challenged, but also to heal the rift between Roman and Orthodox Christianity.Īnd so, in 1095, Pope Urban II called for a ‘crusade’ to liberate Jerusalem from the infidels, even promising the forgiveness of sins in an attempt to encourage people to take part. Indeed, the emperors in Constantinople had implored the Pope on numerous occasions to assist them in their fight against the heathens from the east. The encroachment of the Seljuk Turks from the east and the subsequent threat, not only to pilgrim access to the Holy places but also to Christendom itself, became an increasing concern in Europe in the mid-11th century. ![]() Buy this book on Amazon: A Short History of the World The Crusades (AD 1096–1291) ![]() ![]() ![]() The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship, a bizarre collection of anodyne rooms on an undefined cosmic mission, is riven by the humanoids’ burgeoning self-awareness. ![]() Especially for a company hell-bent on exploiting both humans and humanoids, well away from terrestrial confines. Lund is the man behind a race of “humanoids”-fleshy bodies birthed from pods to be the perfect worker, with an artificial intelligence that may also be granting them something like consciousness in space’s endless night. Lund, a shadowy presence throughout this formally inventive novel. Ravn’s powerful man is not Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson, but Dr. There is something of both these ideas in Olga Ravn’s latest novel, published in Danish in 2018, before its translation to English last year (by Lolli Editions in 2020 in the UK) and shortlisting for the international Booker Prize. ![]() Perhaps they want simply to untether themselves from Earth and its trifling concerns like workers’ rights. Perhaps the darkness between the stars is the proximity to godliness they seek. Powerful men like to send things into space. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roadside Picnic Monday starts on Saturday The Inhabited Island The Snail on the Slope Hard to be a God by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ![]() This episode also finds Andy returning to a haunting novel he read earlier this year: The High House(Swift Press) by former guest Jessie Greengrass, while John is carried away by Everybody (Picador), Olivia Laing’s magnificent book about freedom and the human body. We consider why the book is still considered one of the greatest of all SF novels, how it came to be read as a dark foreshadowing of the Chernobyl disaster and why it has proved itself so ripe for adaptation, both as a series of video games and, most famously, as the basis for Andrei Tarkovsky’s classic 1979 film, Stalker. The Zones feed a black market in artefacts supplied by ‘Stalkers’ who are prepared to risk their lives and sanity by entering the forbidden areas to retrieve them. The book is based on the premise that Earth has been briefly visited by an alien civilisation that have left behind them six ‘Zones’, places strewn with their debris, some of it lethal to humans all of it fascinating and perplexing. To discuss it we are joined by the writer and radio presenter Jennifer Lucy Allan, and the publisher and translator Ilona Chavasse. Roadside Picnic, first published in 1972, is the best-known work of Russia’s most famous modern science fiction writers, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, together the authors of 26 novels and scores of short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Generally, they believe that believers on earth will be raptured to heaven before things get really bad. "But the American evangelical community has latched on to one." ![]() “In the tradition of Christianity, there is no single view of the end times," former evangelical preacher, Frank Schaeffer, explains in the documentary. ![]() foreign policy, specifically the country's relationship to Israel. In Praying for Armageddon, Schei and co-director Michael Rowley are largely guided by journalist Lee Fang, reporter with The Intercept, working to investigate evangelical power and how it directly influences U.S. “Seeing the immense power they have from the grassroots, through megachurch empires, all the way up to the political system in Washington, D.C., is just very concerning to me, especially as they're threatening democracy and also influencing U.S. ![]() fundamentalist evangelicals is maybe one of the most important issues of today,” Schei told Yahoo Canada. “For me, the issue of the power of the U.S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and democracy, with the aim to fulfill the biblical Armageddon prophecy. Following the release of the powerful film on artificial intelligence, iHuman, filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei's new political thriller, Praying for Armageddon, exposes the influence of U.S. ![]() ![]() How do we honour, lament, and heal from the stories we inherit? How can spirituality not silence the body, but instead allow it to come alive? As she writes memorably of her own lived experiences of childhood and selfhood, Cole boldly explores some of the most urgent questions of life and faith: In these deeply transporting pages, Cole reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father and encounters of enfleshed, embodied spirituality. So writes Cole Arthur Riley in an unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.’ ‘From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. ![]() Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter ‘This is the kind of book that make you different when you’re done.’ – Ashley C. ![]() |