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Umberto Eco, Yiddish Proverbs, Citi, John Gray, Popper, Hayek, Bryan Appleyard, Flaneuring | Twitter

@nntaleb RIP, Umberto Eco Ad vitam aeternam Permalink 4:09 PM – 19 Feb 2016 @nntaleb The reason we decided to not respond to this idiot. @nickgillespie pic.twitter.com/h4eIZfvpid Permalink 2:45 PM – 19 Feb 2016 @nntaleb The Qatari/Saudi-funded BS promoted by Obamistic bureaucrats we hear about the Syrian opposition: http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html   Permalink 1:27 PM – 19 […]

John Gray and @nntaleb compose a tweet

John Gray and @nntaleb compose a tweet pic.twitter.com/KFZZRWJE1h — Bryan Appleyard (@BryanAppleyard) February 17, 2016 HatTip to Dave Lull

John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war | Books | The Guardian

NNT Tweeted: Every morning upon waking up I have been thanking Baal the greatmaster BS-buster John Gray exists. Our last hope http://gu.com/p/46t3y/stw  From the Guardian article: The radically contingent nature of the figures is another reason for not taking them too seriously. (For a critique of Pinker’s statistical methods, see Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s essay on […]