What I've been reading 2008.10.11

• Testing the Many-Worlds Interpretation (The Speculist)
  Tipler says its doable.
• Do researchers suffer from winner's curse? (Marginal Revolution)
  In economic theory the winner's curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much...The same thing may be happening in scientific publishing, according to a new analysis.
• mind, presence, and terra incognita (Mind Station Taurus)
  cognitive freedom means to think what you want and to say what you want -- always exercising personal responsibility at the same time -- without fear of the other; we can agree; we can disagree; we need to do these things, and do them with respect for the other, and for personal dignity; above all, we need to agree to disagree