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		<title>How David Beats Goliath</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/05/how-david-beats-goliath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A non-stop full-court press gives weak basketball teams a chance against far stronger teams — it&#8217;s how David beats Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell says — so, why have so few adopted it?, he asks. He doesn&#8217;t really answer the question though, which opens up many game-theoretic avenues of thought. Instead, he cites an amusing example, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mismatch Problem</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/06/the-mismatch-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his speech at the recent New Yorker conference, Malcolm Gladwell explains the mismatch between the metrics we use to assess potential new hires and new hires&#8217; actual performance on the job. (This is the subject of his upcoming book, Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don&#8217;t.) If we look at professional-sport combines, teacher [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell says that great ideas must be floating In the Air, because great minds keep independently discovering them: This phenomenon of simultaneous discovery — what science historians call “multiples” — turns out to be extremely common. One of the first comprehensive lists of multiples was put together by William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Minds</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/01/dangerous-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dangerous Minds, which originally ran in the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell puts criminal profiling under the magnifying glass, and he finds that it bears an uncanny resemblance to cold reading: A few years ago, Alison went back to the case of the teacher who was murdered on the roof of her building in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Some People Are Lucky</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/10/why-some-people-are-lucky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video. (It&#8217;s a Java applet.) When viewing the video, try to count the total number of times that the people wearing white pass the basketball. Do not count the passes made by the people wearing black. Watch the video. I&#8217;ll wait. I&#8217;ve commented on that video before, but it turns out that it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Secrets</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/01/open-secrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Open Secrets, Malcolm Gladwell looks at the differences between puzzles and mysteries: The national-security expert Gregory Treverton has famously made a distinction between puzzles and mysteries. Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts are a puzzle. We can’t find him because we don’t have enough information. The key to the puzzle will probably come from someone close [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Consciousness</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/08/book-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Szabo describes book consciousness: Marshall McLuhan, Elizabeth Eisenstein and others have described the importance of the &#8220;printing revolution&#8221; to European developments such the Reformation, Renaissance, and science. According to Eisenstein, printing finally foiled the entropy that had destroyed the vast majority of written works since ancient times. Printing also enlarged the bookshelves of scholars [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for Geothermal</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/08/the-case-for-geothermal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s father presents The Case for Geothermal: Geothermal heating and cooling is based on one simple fact: that 6 feet down in the ground the temperature is the same — between 50?F and 60?F — the whole year round. This means that it is relatively cool in the summer, and relatively warm in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/06/bulky-man-barely-injured-as-car-rolls-over-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him: A 440 pound German man discovered that being overweight can be good for your health — if you get run over by a car. German police said the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries when a Volkswagen Polo drove [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>gladwell.com</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/02/gladwell-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point, Blink) now has his own blog at gladwell.com: In the past year I have often been asked why I don’t have a blog. My answer was always that I write so much, already, that I don’t have time to write anything else. But, as should be obvious, I’ve now changed my [&#8230;]]]></description>
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