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The Checklist Manifesto « Atul Gawande 2010-02-01 (#)
-> book kiv 2010 "Gawande begins by making a distinction between errors of ignorance (mistakes we make because we don’t know enough), and errors of ineptitude (mistakes we made because we don’t make proper use of what we know). Failure in the modern world, he writes, is really about the second of these errors, and he walks us through a series of examples from medicine showing how the routine tasks of surgeons have now become so incredibly complicated that mistakes of one kind or another are virtually inevitable: it’s just too easy for an otherwise competent doctor to miss a step, or forget to ask a key question or, in the stress and pressure of the moment, to fail to plan properly for every eventuality."
kip/bot/blog » Kindle Fail: Shallowed reading of Bleak House 2010-02-01 (#)
-> The factors that moved it into unKindleable, and which make me think there are serious limits to the academic application of the Kindle are: - complex, rich novel - first time reading of the novel - taking notes for more than the recall of a passage - not a translation, and a deeper engagement in the language kindle
University of Cambridge - Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership - Top 50 Sustainability Books 2010-02-01 (#)
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America's chemical-free farming pioneer | Life and style | The Observer - Joel Salatin 2010-02-01 (#)
-> Joel Salatin is America's most celebrated pioneer of chemical-free farming – but if you want to taste his beef or chicken you'll have to move to Virginia. He talks to Gaby Wood about why local is best and his role in the documentary Food, Inc, which attacks the giants of industrialised food production people