Frank Ejby Poulsen’s blog

Inspired by the death of McNamara and other events of the day

2009-07-07T14:31:32Z

A decision is by essence anti-intellectual. No decision can ever comprehend the immense complexity of reality. Decisions brutally simplify, cut clear, disturb and erase reality to replace it with a new palimpsest of obscene simplicity. Until the ...

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On the common saying "fake it until you can make it"

2009-07-07T14:14:34Z

It seems that some people have misunderstood the saying "fake it until you can make it", they just "fake it until everyone else believe they can make it". Particularly true of politicians.

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Les liaisons dangereuses

2008-08-11T19:12:37Z

Peut-on y voir un début de féminisme ? La marquise de Merteuil semble imposer son caractère par la manipulation et l'intrigue, seules armes qu'une femme pouvait avoir pour asseoir sa position sociale à l'époque. Son génie lui sert à détruire des ...

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New project: making use of the NICTS for diffusing knowledge

2008-07-28T17:34:43Z

These days I am more active on my other blog about my research activities, mainly cosmopolitanism. If you came across this blog be sure to go and visit it, even if it is still under development. The goal is to build an entire web site dedicated to...

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Utopia

2008-07-25T15:16:32Z

Utopia: a political idea that cannot be transformed into policy in the short term, but only in the longer term.

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Slowly catching up on the blogging guerilla warfare

2008-07-13T08:50:47Z

A while ago, I discovered a blog written by an academic I knew only for one of his great books Ringmar, Erik (2008). Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War (Cambridge: CUP, Cambridge ...

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IQ tests

2008-07-10T14:43:55Z

I am wondering what the point with IQ tests is. No, I did not just filled in one, and frustrated by the results decided to write a furious post on my blog about how egregiously diminishing and inaccurate they actually are since they may not have ...

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Political science-fiction/double feature

2008-07-09T15:54:19Z

I started studying law, then I thought it was really not worth it spending precious hours of my short life-span reading tons of useless books and learning by heart meaningless rules that were in them anyway (not to mention the conceitedly loftines...

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Stats and internet fame

2008-07-04T10:13:38Z

To my surprise, I realised that the most entries on my blog where on my post "UN NCRE 2008", where I described my experience at competing for this exam. No wonder! When I google "UN NCRE" my post appears second right after the official UN web site...

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Thought for the day: stop crying like a baby and suck absurdity up!

2008-07-03T11:15:57Z

Observing man, humanity makes me cry. I know that the mature defence mechanism would be to laugh about it. I am trying to grow up.

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