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Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society | Library of Economics and Liberty
Wales cites Austrian School economist Friedrich von Hayek's essay "The Use of Knowledge in Society", which he read as an undergraduate,[16] as "central" to his thinking about "how to manage the Wikipedia project".[11]
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december 2011 by mwfogleman
The radioactive boy scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
The psychological profiles of pioneering American physicists are remarkably similar. Frequently the eldest son of an emotionally remote, professional man, he–almost all were men–was a voracious reader during childhood, tended to feel lonely, and was shy and aloof from classmates.
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may 2009 by mwfogleman
Tough Learning
The natural sciences have a reputation for posing special challenges to the way we think and learn: they are a form of “extreme thinking”. In this essay physicist Michael A. Nielsen discusses some of the challenges facing researchers in the natural sciences, and how those challenges shed light on other tough learning situation
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december 2008 by mwfogleman

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