Saturday, January 24, 2009

Quote of the Day

"The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late"

- Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Friday, January 23, 2009

Thought of the Day

Just discovered how horrendously my vocabulary has regressed to. Perhaps its attributable to the previous 4 years of intellectual atrophy and ennui. Heh. :P

Well, time to sharpen the scalpel of communication before it dulls into becoming a nothing more than a bludgeoning tool.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Video - How to Make Good Decisions

Take 48 mins off your day to watch this.

Actually, its so good that you should just bump 48 mins off something less important to watch it:



We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification, laziness and prejudice. And that's assuming that we haven't already been hijacked by our surroundings or led astray by our subconscious!

Featuring exclusive footage of experiments that show how our choices can be confounded by temperature, warped by post-rationalisation and even manipulated by the future, Horizon presents a guide to better decision making, and introduces you to Mathematician Garth Sundem, who is convinced that conclusions can best be reached using simple maths and a pencil!