A layered concoction of ideas from different thought groups.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Economic Stress Index Visualization
This is a great visualization from the AP about economic stressors. Breaks it down geographically, over time, and for multple metrics. They go the extra step of including biographies, so that you can see "beyond the numbers."
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here... I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.
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