Trust Me, I'm An Expert
Experts… don’t ya just love em? The media has an expert for every topic… yet people get more and more confused. Never more so than in the hot-button area of climate change. Today Peter and Peggy Brusseau discuss this paradox with Brian Clegg, author of Ecologic: The Truth and Lies of Green Economics. Again, Brian’s discipline of operational research comes to the rescue.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reveals that writer Colm Toibin likes very little about the writer’s life – apart from the money – and never has any fun writing Is this typical? And Faber experiments with a pay-what-you-like scheme for one author’s book.
In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she finds a site that allows anyone to download – and indeed read – out-of-copyright audiobooks.
Links: The Write Report, LibriVox
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