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His review of his experiments seems peurile, but it is taken as sufficient evidence that economists never admit or contend with the impossibility of grafting pure economic logic onto irrational human beings.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brilliant and very interesting talk about moral code and cheating 2009
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Maybe this can be a turning point at which we all redouble our efforts to tap into the internet´s positive potential rather than allowing its more peurile aspects to come to the fore?
If politics were more like the internet... that would be a good thing 2009
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Maybe this can be a turning point at which we all redouble our efforts to tap into the internet´s positive potential rather than allowing its more peurile aspects to come to the fore?
Archive 2009-04-01 Mark Reckons 2009
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They're not taken seriously because their organisation, discipline, personnel and philosophies are all deeply peurile; consequently they never attract any mature scrutiny, and never feel any of the pressure that might compel them to coherence.
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How very peurile your "intellectual" pretensions must look to others here, and you are not even sufficiently aware to be able to understand that, "Slater".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Interesting that, if we're as peurile and insignificant as this patronising and disingenuously inadequate 'fact book' appears; how come we're hosting such a supposedly 'important' meeting.
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Maybe this can be a turning point at which we all redouble our efforts to tap into the internet´s positive potential rather than allowing its more peurile aspects to come to the fore?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Every little hit piece on Hillary is so peurile as to make me wonder about the brain power of some commenters.
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It is our job as citizens to resist the call to peurile gossip and to instead demand from all the candidates a discourse about the facts on the ground that are impacting people's lives today.
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Ned's article in the WSJ did more good for him than all of Joe's peurile ranting did for Joe.
Midterm Roundup 2009
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