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 | Book review: "Surrounded by Idiots" by Thomas Erikson The subtitle of this book is "The four types of human behaviour and how top effectively communicate with each in business (and in life)". A very bold claim, and based on its own idiocy that people can be partitioned into fixed and inflexible categories. |
Book review: "The Fibre Factor" by Dr Joanna McMillan One of the most profitable niches in book publishing is the "Fad Diet", where someone writes at length about the dangers of a food component or the benefit of another. Into this milieu comes this book extolling the advantages of fibre in our diets, but the red flags start waving before you even open the book. |  |
 | Book review: "Risk" by Dan Gardner There are things we should worry about but we don't. There are things we shouldn't worry about but still do. This book looks at the way we perceive risk and what we can do about it to make the right decisions. |
Book review - "Wind Turbine Syndrome: A communicated disease" Every time a new technology comes along people are fearful and resist change. I can remember when television arrived in Australia and there were severe warnings about possible damage to eyesight from watching it (and scammers selling special glasses to eliminate the danger). People used analogue mobile phones to complain about 2G digital signals, 2G phones to whine about 3G, 3G phones to spread fear about 4G and 4G phones to warn of the dangers of 5G. Did you know that there are almost 300 medical conditions in both humans and animals caused by wind towers? |  |
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Review: "AI Snake Oil" by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash
Kapoor Artificial Intelligence seems
unavoidable these days. For some reason it seems necessary to build AI
into everything, but is it worthwhile and can it even do what is
claimed? This book looks at the myths and the reality. |
