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Thus spoke… Douglas Adams
by westwood Remember when we talked about Occam’s razor? Well Douglas Adams, one of my absolute favourite dead white guys, used it best when he said this: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
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Getting Hitch’d
by westwood So I was reading an issue of Vanity Fair that happened to drop into my unsuspecting hands. Which led me to read another issue. Then another. And another. (no, I probably wouldn’t admit that I.R.L.) And you know what I realized? Out of all this greasy-fingered perusing into the addictive and intrusive details [...]
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by westwood Critical thinking is something you should be doing all day, every day. Example: you read the news and find out that they have dramatically lowered the exercise standards in your country. Read between the lines (or just actually read the lines, screen-skimmers) and you will find that it is not because people grossly [...]
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