This blog has written before (in relation to Arts and Letters Daily) about how one of the most powerful motives in journalism is the desire to be a maverick. It's as if the only opinion that's going to get heard is a contrarian one.
In a post on his blog titled 'A counterintuitive train wreck' the Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman picks up on Joe Romm's verdict on Superfreakonomics to say how often the temptation to be counterintuitive can just be 'plain, unforgivably wrong'.
Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the
lepidopterist who named them
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Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward,
womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this
moving docume...
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