Changing Minds

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Yes, its true. I’ve read this book. Picked up in the airport to pass time on the plane. Ostensibly about ways to change someone’s mind about something, it actually reads more as a series of anecdotes about the way various people ( mostly “VIPs” ) have changed their own minds about things.
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How to think about weird things

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

picked this up at the library’s extras sale. a book, more or less on rhetoric, but using “new age” arguements as a foil. interestingly enough not a polemic against the belief in esp, ufos, etc. more just how to argue about them. strange, strange.