Blaise Pascal was a 17th century French mathematical genius who spelled out the laws of probability more clearly than anyone before him. This was a watershed moment, because for the first time humanity had a systematic way of thinking about
On June 20th in the Wall Street Journal, in response to the media coverage of Tim Russert’s untimely death, Peggy Noonan wrote in her Declarations column, “When somebody dies we tell his story and try to define and isolate what
In a political revolution, insurgents quickly target the media outlets. Their reasoning? He who controls the language controls the thinking. Now comes another study to suggest that insurgents may have it right. In this experiment, one group of volunteers was