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•• document abstracts •• • logic, including turing's work • why aristotelian logic does not work - abelard, 1999 metalogic A: the confusions of gödel (four parts) - abelard, 2001 feedback and crowding - abelard, 2000 metalogic - B: decision processes - abelard, 2001 the turing test and intelligence - abelard, 1998 computing machinery and intelligence - a.m. turing, 1950 the entscheidungsproblem by a.m. turing, 1936 • using statistics, and other sums • ‘intelligence’: misuse and abuse of statistics - abelard, 2002 is intelligence distributed normally? - cyril burt, 1963 inquiries on the efficacy of prayer - francis galton, 1872 sum of a geometric sequence: or the arithmetic of fractional banking • pierre abelard and related topics • abelard of le pallet: introduction - abelard, 1998 le pallet, birthplace of pierre abelard, 2004 abelard of le pallet on theology - abelard 2001 the logic of ethics; with commentary on abelard of le pallet - abelard, 2000 the rise and fall of the church of rome - abelard, 1999 'heresies', authority, quarrels and words - abelard, 1999 on aliquid - roland, pope alexander III, 12th century • pychological studies • psychology &development of adolph hitler schicklgruber - abelard, 2000 Franco was not a Fascist - abelard, 2011 did hitler know about the holocaust? - abelard, 2000 henry ford, ignorant genius - introduction - abelard, 2004 henry ford, ruthless business manipulator - abelard, 2004 henry ford, mechanical man - model T, modern times - abelard, 2004 quotes by and about henry ford - abelard, 2004 the psychology of rex stout, nero wolfe and archie goodwin - abelard, 2005 • relating to economics and money • emu is bad for you - abelard, 1998 the mechanics of inflation - abelard, 2000 corporate corruption, politics and the 'law' - abelard, 2003 value (money) transfer methods on the net - Xavier+, 2002 moneybookers, a non -goldbased value transfer system- Xavier+, 2005 • about education, relationships and life management • how to teach a child to read using phonics - abelard, 2007 a phonetics chart for british english - the auroran sunset, 2007 reading and vocabulary tests, and related information - abelard, 2007 franchise by examination; education and intelligence - abelard, 1999 citizenship curriculum - abelard, 1999 memory, paranoia and paradigms - abelard, 2003 power, ownership and freedom - abelard, 2002 laying the foundations for sound education - abelard 2001 drugs, smoking and addiction - abelard, 2003 children and tv violence - abelard, 1999 hearing damage and loud music - abelard, 1999 (research: xavier) orange is tertiary: the theory of colour - abelard, 1998 profession - isaac asimov, 1957 and then there were none - eric frank russell, 1951 brer fox, brer rabbit and the briar patch rewritten by Xavier why i use a non-standard layout - abelard, 1998 • quotations • quotations at www.abelard.org, 1 selected sayings from abelard, at www.abelard.org h.l. mencken - selected quotations ronald reagan - selected quotations george orwell - selected quotations winston churchill - selected quotations donald rumsfeld - selected quotations • miscellaneous • useful links reading references index of book reviews by abelard latest changes and additions to abelard.org email abelard

•• abstracts of briefing documents •• •citizens’ relationship to the state• people power and the power of civil disobedience authoritarianism and liberty islamic authoritarianism socialist religions fascism is socialism - franco was not a socialist oppression, poverty and life expectancy - t.a.s. • education o civilisation• the nature of cult recruitment - jihadi bombers 'cocksure young men' rule 18B(1a) and the mosleys citizen's wage • on energy • 1 Replacing fossil fuels: the scale of the problem 2 Nuclear power - is nuclear power really really dangerous? 3 Replacements for fossil fuels-what can be done about it? 3a Biofuels 3b Photovoltaics (solar cells) 3c Tar sands and oil shale 4 Global warming 4a Anthropogenic global warming 5 Energy economics and fossil fuels—how long do we have? 6 Ionising radiation and health 7 Transportable fuels 7a Fuel cells and battery-powered vehicles 8 Distributed energy systems and micro-generation 9 Fossil fuel disasters 10 Books on energy replacements with reviews • sustainable resources • comparing fertility rates and populations in europe and beyond land conservation and food production eco-building sustainable manufacture pressure on water resources the tragedy of the commons ecologically collapsing and retrenching civilisations: written sources • information • world information & data resources information tables - index gdp and other quality of life measurements human classification systems • sums will set you free • cause, chance and Bayesian statistics the sum of a geometric sequence: or the arithmetic of fractional banking • psychobabble • 'lie detection' ritalin and junk science 'dyslexia' repressed memory what is memory, or intelligence? incautious claims of 'iq' genes 'traumatic' 'syndromes' • sloppy logic• denialism ends and means and the individual categories, analogy and reification • on Japan • Japanese electoral politics in the context of Koizumi and postal privatisation Yasukuni Shrine and the state of Far East relations • geological topics• tsunamis: tsunamis travel fast but not at infinite speed tectonics: tectonic plates - floating on the surface of a cauldron • more briefings documents •- 'just war' understanding the current political world the anthropic principle, or if the universe was not the way it is

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