Operation Mincemeat. The Allies were what many sociologists call a "choice architect." They design the choice environment in which decisions are made. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler in their book, "Nudge," really define this quite well.So nudging is the idea for a leader that you know what decisions have to be made for your employees.
in welcoming up Professor Sunstein. CASS R. SUNSTEIN: Thank you so much.It's a complete thrill to be here.
Thanks. CASS R. SUNSTEIN: Oh.
Thanks. CASS R. SUNSTEIN: It's a great point.
Thanks. CASS R. SUNSTEIN: Oh, that's a great point.
Thanks. CASS R. SUNSTEIN: OK.
Thanks. CASS R. SUNSTEIN: OK.
Thanks. CASS R. SUNSTEIN: OK.
Lucinda's away tonight, away for the entire bleak week to come. Cass is missing Lucinda in his bones, missing her in the marrow that's presently crystallizing into ice.She's in warmer climes, at a conference in Santa Barbara on 'Non-Nash Equilibria in Zero-Sum Games.'
Her work is so mathematical that almost no one would suspect it has anything to do with mental life. Cass , on the other hand, is about as far away on the continuum as you can get and still be in the same field.He's so far away that he is knee-deep in the swampy humanities.
located in nearby Weedham, Massachusetts. Cass has the letter on him right now baring the insignia of Veritas, zippered into an inside pocket of his parka,insulating him against the cold.
The night is so frigid that everything seems to have been stripped bare of superfluous existence, reduced to the purity of abstraction. Cass has the distinct impression that he can see better in the sharpened air, and takes off his glasses and of course can hardly see a thingpast the nimbus phantom of his own breath.
Standing dead center on Weeks Bridge, in the dead of winter in the dead of night, staring down at the sublime formation, Cass is contemplating the strange thing that his life has become.To him. His life has become strange to him.
in quote 'sharing their vision of America' un-quote. Cass Seltzer has become the unlikely poster boy for this mistrusted group.His is a good face for counteracting the fallacy of equating godlessness with vice.
His is a good face for counteracting the fallacy of equating godlessness with vice. Cass ' fundamental niceness is written all over him.He's got a strong jaw, a high ovoid forehead from which his floppy auburn hair is only just slightly receding,
The atheist with a soul. Cass always smiles at the absurdity of the phrase.But which is the more absurd element?
and subjected to rigorous inspection. Cass had started out with all the standard arguments for God's existence, the ones discussed in philosophy classes and textbooks: The Cosmological Argument ,The Ontological Argument , The Classical Teleological Argument , the arguments from Miracles, Moral Truths,
If somebody hasn't personally experienced this particular kind of metaphysical seizure then it's hard to find the words to give a sense of what it's like. Cass had experienced it even as a boy, lying in bed and thinking his way into the sense of the strangeness of being just this.Cass had had the lower bunk bed.
Cass had experienced it even as a boy, lying in bed and thinking his way into the sense of the strangeness of being just this.Cass had had the lower bunk bed.Both he and Jesse, his younger brother, had wanted the higher bunk, but, as usual, Jesse had wanted what he wanted so much more than Cass had wanted it,
'Here I am,' Cass is saying, standing on Weeks Bridge and talking aloud into the sublimely indifferent night. Cass knows he needs to tamp down his tendencies toward the transcendent.It isn't becoming in America's favorite atheist, who is, at this moment, Cass Seltzer, who is, somehow or other,
- Absolutely not. I mean, it's no worse than a component stereo. The only thing is that Tandy, in their infinite wisdom, used the same five-pin DIN connector for power, video, and I think cassette, so they were all identical, and if you plugged them in wrong, you'd blow it up. So I read the label and got it working and wound up playing with it and not knowing anything about computers, so I'm typing English commands into it and, you know, PRINT 2+2 works perfectly,
Absolutely. The "Avengers Campus" cookbook is narrated by a character named Cassie Lang. Cassie is the daughter of Scott Lang, who is also known as Ant-Man in the Marvel Universe. While her dad uses Pym Particles to save the world, Cassie had a different idea-- why not use them to feed the world?
What would you say to those folks? Cassie, earlier we talked about the pratfall effect.
What would you say to those folks? Cassie and I went to work out.
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not CDs, not USBs, but cassettes. And I was listening to Jeffrey Gidomer's cassettes in my car which was sales messages coming out driving from one town of Cyprus to the next promoting Carlile food service products and all the other products that we had at
It's very risky for smallholder farmers. Cassava is one of the things I dislike most in this world, because it's a very drought-resistant crop, and it grows almost everywhere. So a lot of people have a lot of incentive to grow cassava because it will come in no matter what.
Apollo's curse to her was that every time she foretold disaster-- in fact, he allowed her to foretell disasters-- she would be ignored. Cassandra then, being from Troy, saw the sack of her city, saw her brothers killed, saw her family destroyed, her home destroyed, her entire city burned to the ground. She saw this in perfect detail, well before it occurred, and warned and warned and warned.
We're talking about machines that program themselves. Cassandras are out there, and we need to find them.
I threw all the vinyl away. Cassettes are back. This was a Cassette Store Day 2013. And Punk is a beer.
I think you can't dig your head in the sand and just sort of continually look at putting VHS cassettes into your machine. You got to kind of evolve.
maidens and Highgate Woods a fantastic example you've got Oak standards and you've got hornbeam casses and they're really fun to spot I went out with my nephew who's five and we wandered around the Woodland and wewandered around looking for 3ers and fours which are coopes and wners which are oak
He had issues. And there are various stories out there talking about how he was too crazy to ride with the Wild Bunch and too crazy to hang out with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And eventually, he robbed the wrong train at the wrong time and got himself shot, got himself captured, and eventually got himself hung in a very mismanaged execution,
So we also want to say thanks to Paul's colleagues and team who are here. Cassie is Chief of Staff, his cousin Ann is also a Googler, so well represented. So Paul, why don't we start just with a little bit of background about ebola itself.
Cassoulet is not, somebody wrote to me recently one of these things.
Cassoulet is beans from the new world.
Cassava, potatoes. You eat raw potatoes, you can have solanine poisoning.
Cassini has been orbiting around Saturn and visiting the moons of Titan.
cassettes. And by the way, these two months turned into like two years . So and it turned, I looked for these little moments of authenticity.
cassette bin uh system ready to put on school campuses yet
Cassat Vidalia groaned it didn't go that well actually oh never mind her mother said
And Cass Sunstein of Harvard has done a lot of research on this that if you
The truth is, and what's the good of a man contemplating an inhumanly frozen world at 4 a.m. if no truth-telling ensues, that Cass is somewhat at a loss to account for what he's done. How to explain those 36 Arguments for the Existence of God , all of them formally constructed in the preferred analytic mode,
But if someone else were looking at the two of them, Jesse there, Cass here, how could that person tell that he, Cass , was Cass here and not Jesse there? If it got switched on them, everything the same about them, the body and memories and sense of self and everything else,
William James had rebuked the quote 'scroundel logic' un-quote that calculates divine provenance from one's own little goody bag of gains, and Cass couldn't agree more with the spirit of James, but here it is, his bulging goody bag, and call him a scoundrel for being personally grateful to the universe when at this same moment that he is standing on Weeks Bridge and tossing hosannas out into the infinite universe, there are at this same time multitudes of others
whose lives are painfully constricting with misfortunes that are just as arbitrary and undeserved as his own expansive good luck, but Cass Seltzer does feel grateful. At moments like this could Cass altogether withstand the sense that, hard to put it into words, the sense that the universe is personal,
with no floppy, and so I had a cassette deck, which was the best you could do at the time, and so I was writing small things, and I had a machine language monitor that you could load from cassette. It didn't have an assembler built in, but it had a disassembler, so you could enter the op codes in 6502 in hex, and if you were careful about planning, you'd be able to write some basic programs. So that's kind of how I learned.
What would you say to those folks? And Cassie and I were talking about this, and you shared this ridiculous scenario that happened to you.
On casse les molécules.
She saw this in perfect detail, well before it occurred, and warned and warned and warned. And Cassandra went crazy with her warnings, crazy that no one listened to her. So we decided to go look for modern-day Cassandras.