Notes on engineering and science in society

• Some critical thinking items:
  • Tim Minchin wrote the poem Storm after an experience with non-critical thinkers, and which collaborators later made into a short movie - perhaps nothing is as good as Storm the Animated Movie (http://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U)
  • The paper "On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit" is really quite interesting (SJDM Journal Judgment and Decision Making, Volume 10, Number 6, November 2015).
• On Scientific Process and Denialism
• Excellent discussions on the Discover Science Sushi blog:
  On The Danger Posed By Non-Expert Critiques Published To Large Audiences;
  The Very Thick Line Between Raising Concerns And Denialism (web archive links)
• On Evidence based health care
• On Scientific process vs. nutrition and lifestyle advice
• On research&development&startups:
• Advice (quotes) for researchers: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dahlin/research.html
• Stephane Marceau - co-founder and CEO of startup OMSignal was interviewed at Springwise http://www.springwise.com/wise-words-stephane-marceau/ (access may be restricted) and also at Venture Beat http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/01/omsignal-talks-about-course-corrections-at-vbs-montreal-roadshow-tomorrow/
• Inc Magazine explains "realisation" techniques promoted by Steve Jobs in http://www.inc.com/hitendra-wadhwa/steve-jobs-self-realization-yogananda.html