Warm thanks all for the help; the TIME questions were excellent. I was also interviewed by one of the very few journalists NONjournalists Michael Elliott, a former scholar & a true erudite.
Now I may try the Beaujolais Nouveau 2010 as NO Lebanese wine in sight.

I need HELP! TIME magazine is subjecting me (via the publisher) to 10 questions by (their) readers and all I got are the usual clueless stuff, not the quality questions I got on this page.
Please help

http://10questions.time.com/2010/11/22/ask-nassim-taleb/comment-page-2/#comments
http://10questions.time.com/2010/11/22/ask-nassim-taleb/comment-page-2/#comments
10questions.time.com

Amateur prophets add to the future, pros remove from it.

http://www.economist.com/node/17509373?story_id=17509373&CFID=149238396&CFTOKEN=89583226

Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won’t
www.economist.com
Paradoxically, one can make long-term predictions on the basis of the prevalence of forecasting errors. A system that is over-reliant on prediction (through leverage, like the banking system before the recent crisis), hence fragile to unforeseen “black swan” events, will eventually break into piece

I am fed up.