... feet, making things up as they wildly scrambled to cover up other things that were going on. They came up with some crazy theories, patently false on their face, about what happened that day. There was no magic bullet, ... , a cover up, crazy theories on all sides about what happened, one (Oswald acting alone) spun deliberately to mislead the public. It gets even more interesting. It’s a lesson ...

Is it wrong to expect conversations to get to the point? I enjoy the book, 30-Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories in Science, Each Explained in Half a Minute , because it is concise and considerate of my pet peeve. The graphics are also interesting which is important part of keeping my attention ~~ what can I say I am a visual person. Edited by Paul Parson

... …trying to become interested in new things, …trying to meet other interesting people, …trying to improve their self esteem. This is for the most part ... odds are very good that you will be similarly motivated as well, and can keep each other on track. When you are around interesting people, you will find yourself becoming more like them as well. The benefit of spending your time ...

... longer article making much the same point. Still, there may be a related lesson to consider: if people put as much energy into finding solutions to real problems as they do into making up imaginary explanations for past failures, we might have a better functioning world, with fewer such failures to encourage ridiculous explanation. Or we might not, but it's an interesting idea all the same.

... , whose losses could threaten AIG’s financial guarantee business while monolines promised to pay claims first, to protect investors. Second, AIG had a history of negotiating before they paid claims (there is an interesting history with a ABS film receivables deal where AIG refused to pay, while the monolines covered similar deals and did not have the same “out” in their ...

... of it) have a big interest in aliens. (Laurence Rockefeller virtually funded the current aliens-among-us movement by pouring hundreds of millions into alien-oriented think tanks.) And it is a very interesting idea that one way to confuse - and defuse - a conversation is by selective leaking alongside an ongoing emphasis of certain themes that offer a message of hopelessness and even fear. But, ...

"Jew flu" An interesting theory advanced by Uzi Silber trying to explain why Jews are more susceptible to hate their kin than other tribes. There are many theories trying to explain this phenomenon, such as the following: s Jew Flu a bona-fide illness? Michael Welner, a psychiatrist at New York University, ...

... . I'll say this about chareidi Gedolei Hador, and I will say this about the Sanhedrin. And in this case, it seems that the "Sanhedrin" was driven to their psak by the faulty conspiracy theories of a conspiracy theorist, Dr. Daisy Stern, who thinks that this is all a plot. To cite her words: In this paper I am presenting overwhelming evidence, gathered from as many sources as I was ...

... explanations for problems experienced by Vioxx patients. “How would the most diligent plaintiffs have gone about finding out whether Merck really had no good-faith belief” in those alternate theories, asked Justice Ginsburg. Scalia also suggested that in the early stages there was “simply substantial evidence of inaccuracy,” not of the kind of fraud needed to trigger a ...

You find the most interesting things browsing Wikipedia while (slightly) pissed*: The Mythopoetic men's movement is based on spiritual perspectives derived from psychoanalysis, and ... to include deep unconscious patterns and archetypes that are revealed through myth, story and ritual, as supported by theories drawn from analytical or "depth" psychology. Also ties in the with the " ...