Saturday, 10 October 2015

Sierra Club's Aaron Mair Responds to Sen. Ted Cruz's Attack on Climate Science

http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/08/aaron-mair-responds-ted-cruz/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b35be82ad8-Top_News_10_9_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b35be82ad8-85946369


Some ideas about thinking, reacting and behaviour ...

"Reading what follows will put you into a more adult state of mind from which you can make better decisions. Thinking and calculating is sure to slow you down and help to burn more calories, but the tiredness that results will make you more irritable." Arthur Lake 2015
"You know far less about yourself than you feel you do" Daniel Kahneman
"Often when the sun shines, the wind don't blow. Often when the wind blows, the sun don't shine. Occasionally, the sun shines and the wind blows and the combination sometimes works so well that we forget the balance." Arthur Lake 2015
"We often know more than we can tell .." MIchael Polanyi
"We 'always' know more than we can tell others or ourselves ..." Arthur Lake 2015
"Your actions and emotions can be primed by events of which you are not even aware." Daniel Kahneman
"Act calm and kind, regardless of how you may tell yourself otherwise to feel." Saint Allmind
"Be aware that the effects of unconscious priming can reach into every corner of your life." Johnny Besmart
"Thinking of money primes individualism. You won't do as much to help others?" Daniel Kahneman
"We are primed by symbols .. " Freud, Jung, and the advertisers ...
"Trivial manipulations of context can have very large effects." Daniel Kahneman
"You are mostly a stranger to yourself, and misunderstood by others." Arthur Lake

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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth. ... more!