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...it had not even ''occurred'' that they might be worth eating; that you are author of a beneficent new insight which will better illuminate the world. ...

...e|Structure|jpg|}}}}'''''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions''''' by {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}{{bi}} ...ially confusing continental stalwarts {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}} and {{author|Ludwig Wittgenstein}} — as representing the fundamental underpinnings of mo ...

Named after the fictional species created by {{author|H. G. Wells}} for his 1895 novel, {{br|The Time Machine}}. ...

...tander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction}}<br>{{author|Catherine Sanderson}}<br> It starts out brightly but quickly gets bogged down by its author’s agenda, and goes from the interesting question “why is it that people who ...

{{a|work|}}The hoary old chestnut that underpins {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s radical, [[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions|brillian If you read latter-day philosophical whizz-kid {{author|William MacAskill}}’s book {{br|What We Owe The Future}}, a question you wi ...

...s, like Richard Feynman, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham and I dare say, {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} whose singular intelligence, peculiar worldview, re ...

...by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} ...[[standard deviation]], then, against a mean of four stars, compared to {{author|Leonard Mlodinow}}’s {{br|The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Liv ...

...of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage}}<br>{{author|Roger Martin}}<br> ...n of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage}} — {{author|Roger Martin}}<br> ...

...e clear, for [[passive aggressive]] types: this is simply a reference to {{author|George Orwell}}’s {{br|Nineteen Eighty-Four}}</ref>. ...

...a way which noted legal commentator Professor Leonard Kravitz<ref>Learned author of the celebrated monograph “''It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over''”.</ref> might ...

{{a|book review|}}In ''[[The End of History and the Last Man]]'' {{author|Francis Fukuyama}} argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democ ...

{{a|book review|}}{{Br|Consciousness Explained}}<br>{{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br>''Review first published September 28, 2004''<br> ...you are left with is the mechanical functions of the brain (unless, with {{author|Roger Penrose}}, you want to say “quantum mechanics did it!”), so you don’t ...

...y Of Things There Should Be Words For}}, by {{author|Douglas Adams}} and {{author|John Lloyd}}.</ref> one struck up by an [[rent-seeker|agent]] to appear bus ...

...the Drafting of Contractual Instruments]]'' — whose very title betrays its author as the sort of fellow whose idea of “style” is a waistcoat and pantaloons — ...

...rel]] fancier — who isn’t? — and he irritated the living ''piss'' out of {{author|Richard Dawkins}}. What’s not to like? Books include {{br|The Mismeasure of ...

...— and I mean a ''lot'' harder than draughts or [[chess]], that it is, in {{author|Daniel Susskind}}’s mind, compelling evidence that we will shortly be good ...

...perience called {{br|The Long Way}}, which is also to be memorialised in {{Author|Stewart Brand}}’s forthcoming {{Br|The Maintenance Race}}. ...

{{a|book review|}}{{br|The Mismeasure of Man}}<br>{{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}<br>''First published on 19 December 2008''<br> Some critics complain that in {{br|The Mismeasure of Man}} {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}} attacks a straw man: craniometry is, after all, no more ...

:—{{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}, {{br|Human, All Too Human}}}} ...

{{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br> At first glance this proposition seems uncontroversial but, as {{author|Daniel Dennett}} makes clear, its implications are anything but: once you a ...