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empires of belief - why we need more scepticism and doubt in the 21th century
... by the powerful they have expan-sionist ambitions and we are all their targets, not just the true believ-ers who have already bought the message in question and can berelied on to do what they ... in the West increasingly beingdrawn into the web of Christian theology and made to serve its more specialised interests (enquiries into the nature of God and his prop-erties, proofs for the ... exist, then the independence of the world lies beyond reasonable doubt.Scepticism invites us to keep scrutinising our knowledge, anddeciding whether it is justified or not: The force we feel in the...
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WHY IT IS SO HARD TO GET SAFE WATER TO THE POOR – AND SO PROFITABLE TO SELL IT TO THE RICH pdf
... students concluded that the more the dissemination process is socially em-bedded and the higher the visibility of SODIS in a village, the more adoption will increase. The study recommend that ... regu-larly, for instance because they have forgotten to put the bottles on the roof. Some of them will then drink boiled water, but some will probably also drink water from the well. c. Determined non-users ... prefer to con-sume the water directly from the well. They say ' it tastes better ', and they are convinced that it does not do any harm to their health. In the high Andes of Bolivia,...
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
... ways we couldn’t have imagined fifty years ago. We now know why habits emerge, how they change, and the science behindtheir mechanics. We know how to break them into parts and rebuild themto ... much of a difference.But in the taxi, Lisa didn’t know that. And to the scientists at the laboratory, the details of her trek weren’t relevant. Because for reasons they were justbeginning to understand, ... behavior,” the doctor told her.Everyone in the room felt like they were on the brink of something import-ant. And they were.Whenyouwokeupthismorn-ing,whatdidyoudofirst?Didyouhopin the shower,checkyouremail,orgrabadough-nutfrom the kit-chencounter?PROLOGUEThe...
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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond
... as we& apos;d note that he (the man, not the mannequin) entered the cashier line at 11:23 and exited the store at 11:30. Depending on the size of the store and the length of the ... signs were in that store. If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would, , collapse-boom. Fortunately, the ... in mind, too, that the faster people walk, the narrower their field of peripheral vision becomes. But by the time we get close enough to see the goods or read the signs, we& apos;re in no...
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Choosing the Road to Prosperity Why We Must End Too Big to Fail—Now pdf
... Rosenblum crafted, if there is sludge on the crankshaft—in the form of losses and bad loans on the balance sheets of the TBTF banks—then the bank-capital linkage that greases the engine of monetary ... what other countries do is important; if they also lower interest rates, then the effect on exchange rates and exports will be muted. From the first moments of the financial crisis, the Fed ... sidestepping the law’s proscriptions on aiding financial insti-tutions. In the future, the ultimate decision won’t rest with the Fed but with the Trea-sury secretary and, therefore, the president....
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the undercover economist exposing why the rich are rich the poor are poor--and why you can never buy a decent used car nov 2005
... started to realize that if they deleted the cookies on their computers, they were offered different, oftenlower prices. And when they found out what the company wasdoing, there was an outcry. Like ... out of the scarcity power they’ve rented from the London Eye. They aretorn between raising prices and losing customers, or loweringprices and losing margins. If they have to charge the same ... demand.In other industries it is not shrinking demand but powerfulemployers that curtail the power of the unions. In the UnitedStates, Wal-Mart has tremendous bargaining power: there wereonly...
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why we talk the evolutionary origins of language mar 2007
... diVerent from other primates? They clench andbare their teeth; they thrust out their jaws and their chests; they try to givethemselves a stronger and more threatening appearance. They probablyalso ... vervets,for the animals’ associations with the signals relate to the situations towhich they belong rather than to their acoustical form. This is why we canposit that the immediate eVect of the communication ... she makes during her dance. The speed and the number of abdomen waggles indicate the distance between the hiveand the source of food: the nearer the food, the quicker the dance. A three-second...
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state university of new york press the evolution of death why we are living longer oct 2006
... far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics and statisticaldynamics (chapter 4). Lifecycles connect life to life, while death smoothes the flow between them and lengthens the life span through evolution. Death is not the ... do we? Chapter 1 examines the objectivity of these scientific truths. Several ques-tions are raised in the form of “Do we die at the whim (command, behest)of ?” But to all these questions, the ... the center of the bell), while small variations expressed amongmembers of a population and the chance of the draw explained the error orscatter of points around the mean (the area beneath the...
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the power of habit why we do what we do charles duhigg
... saw the electrified floor panels, they stayed away.When they saw their old cues, however, they unthinkingly pressed the lever and ate the food, or theywalked across the floor, even as they ... touch.”They asked if they could watch her clean the house. In the bedroom, she made her bed, plumped the pillows, tightened the sheet’s corners, and then took a Febreze bottle and sprayed the smoothedcomforter. ... the doctor told her.Everyone in the room felt like they were on the brink of something important. And they were.When you woke up this morning, what did you do first? Did you hop in the shower,...
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