The USS Idaho was built in Camden, bud.
Right, they should have built it in Boise…
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Xenophon’s Essays regarding Socrates, the works of Aristotle, Euclid’s Elements.
Courses in basic Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Probability, Statistics, and advanced math.
Business courses: Principles of Accounting I & II, Personal Finance, Managerial Finance.
General Biology I & II, Microbiology, Chemistry I & II, Physics Classical Mechanics, Physics Optics, Physics Electricity and Magnetism.
Courses or apprenticeships in show Magic, close up Magic, Short Cons, Long Cons.
A careful study of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The study of law.
The study of medicine.
The study of engineering.
The study of failures.
The study of history.
There are also a lot of excellent docu-dramas on cons, swindles, propaganda bullshit, government misconduct, religious malfeasance, etc, etc.
Spend some time working Carnivals, or Circus games.
Spend some time working in Casinos, or gambling businesses.
Spend some time working in the purse fight business.
Spend some time working in the financial (aka the marketing) industry.
Spend some time working in healthcare.
Spend some time working in government.
Spend some time as a corrections officer, and/or in law enforcement.
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Subject near and dear to my heart. There are many, many books on the subject that should be required reading for anyone living in a democracy. Here are a few–but there are many more.
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Bergstrom and West
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, by Singer and Brooking
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Oreske and Conway
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age by Sanger
Pre-suasion, by Cialdini
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, also by Cialdini
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Sceptics Guide to the Universe - How to know what is really real in a world increasingly full of Fake.
Our Book | The Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
And I’m going to say Carl Sagon, demon haunted world. And probably something or everything by James Randi.
And Brian Dunning - Skeptoid.
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Thinking Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman - It’s a great way of understanding the predominant filters and heuristics people use in every day evaluation of problems (and also how to avoid doing what everyone else does)
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I’ll ride or die with the SGU. I’ve been subscribed since 2007.
Skeptoid dropped off, mostly because he ran out of interesting things to evaluate.
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