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Rhetoric 001

Smoke and Mirrors: Protecting Yourself from Time-Honored Fallacies. A rhetoric primer. Continue reading

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Crowd Control Parisienne

An army officer in the 19th century, during one of the many riots in Paris,
was ordered to shoot at a mob in order to force them to disperse. He
ordered his troops to take up their firing positions, and then shouted at
the mob: … Continue reading

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CHAIN MAIL HOAXES

The Anatomy of a Social Computer Disease. Once you read this, you may never think about chain mail the same way again. Continue reading

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