It's oddly moving watching the end of a government. Reminds you that there are actually real people involved.
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- Video of the day: Michael Shermer on “the mind of the market”
Really interesting talk from prominent sceptic (some misunderstanding over my recent post about stupid atheists. I’m actually a fan of scepticism as a tool, I just find many self-proclaimed “sceptics” to be nothing of the sort) Michael Shermer held at Google HQ:
How did we evolve from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumer-traders? Why are people so irrational when it comes to money and business? Bestselling author Dr. Michael Shermer argues that evolution provides an answer to both of these questions through the new science of evolutionary economics. Drawing on research from neuroeconomics, Shermer explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business.
Utilizing experiments in behavioral economics, Shermer shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes, and why money does not make us happy. Employing research from complexity theory, Shermer shows how evolution and economics are both examples of a larger phenomenon of complex adaptive systems.
Along the way, Shermer answers such provocative questions as: Do our tribal roots mean that we will always be a sucker for brands? How is the biochemical joy of sex similar to the rewards of business cooperation? How can nations increase trust within and between their borders? Finally, Shermer considers the consequences of globalization and what will happen if nations allow free trade across their borders.
- Blood on the ball
Today a pointless one dayer had a moment of pure cricket goodness.
Johan Botha got a leading edge into his face.
This leading edge had enough force on it to wedge itself between three hard places, the grill, the lid of the helmet and the Robotic Kevin Bacon face of Johan Botha.
Just the ball getting wedged in the grill is a great scene, but for him then to take off the helmet, with ball still wedged, and reveal his now bloody face, that is just awesomeness wrapped in just more awesomeness.
This was the proof I didn’t want, that Johan Botha is human.
Blood on the face of a batsmen is about my favourite place for blood to be.
And this was oozing out of his eye at a decent rate.
Usually the best part would be the blood on the pitch, but Botha took it to new extremes. The dude got blood on the ball.
I’m sure it has happened before, but generally that would be on a red ball, one day cricket finally made sense to me when that ball just had a dollop of red stuff on it.
Botha retired hurt, and the ball was replaced.
The story doesn’t end though as Botha’s face was kept together with sticky tape and chewing gum and he was sent back out.
But here is where the script writers fucked up, the ball didn’t come back.
If I was Botha I would have walked back out and demanded that the bloody ball be re-introduced.
Even if it was just for one ball.
Imagine the story, dude gets smacked in the face, loses blood on the ball, comes back without any bandages only a few overs left and the fast bowler is using the ball that is soaked in his blood.
That is my kind of cricket.
