Dan Gardner

@dgardner

Keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author (Risk/The Science of Fear, Future Babble, Superforecasting), and consultant ().

Ottawa
Joined April 2010

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    10 Dec 2015

    Bloomberg: "Another top choice among the world's biggest names in finance and economics was Superforecasting."

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  2. 13 hours ago

    To see for yourself, look at any random photo of the New England countryside circa 1900. Mostly agriculture. And today? Mostly forest.

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  3. 13 hours ago

    Lots of people insist my claim here is nonsense. But it’s based on agricultural land use trends over the past century. Which makes me wonder: Does everyone know a vast amount of land has been abandoned and allowed to revert to forest? Everyone knows that, right?

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  4. 18 hours ago

    Alternate slogan: If you can’t spell it or pronounce it, maybe you should learn some science.

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  5. 21 hours ago

    Michael Moore and Naomi Klein strongly support Bernie Sanders. How do you feel about that? *rorschach politics*

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  6. 23 hours ago

    Without commenting on the merits of the idea, it’s pretty amazing to see Lord Beaverbrook’s “imperial preference” policy, which he promoted in his newspaper, the Daily Express, being presented as a bold new idea a century later. In the Daily Express.

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  7. 23 hours ago

    In much of North America and Europe, everyone eating strictly local would mean vast swathes of forest would have to be cut for farmland. If strictly organic, the clearcutting would have to be even bigger. Funny how complications like these never make it into such articles.

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  8. Feb 2

    Certain officers in Russian intelligence must spend much of their work days giggling.

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  9. Feb 1

    Amazing, indeed. The auto pact was critical to Canadian economic development. So what if the pagination of the press release had been different? Another stellar illustration that history can turn on trivia.

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  10. Jan 31

    Those are Stalinist insults, FTR. (I’m pretty sure Trumpians are not big students of history, so I thought the explanation is necessary.)

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  11. Jan 31

    Deviationist! Wrecker! Enemy of the people!

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  12. Jan 31

    Change a word here and there and this could be from the era of The Population Bomb. (That’s 1968, for you Millennials.)

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  13. Jan 31

    I’m trying to imagine something dumber than politicians in a large, loosely knit federation with a troubled history of national unity threats publicly praising Britain for leaving the EU. Not coming up with anything.

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  14. Jan 31
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  15. Retweeted

    If you think that all we need to do is build nuclear, you’re wrong. If you think all we need to do is build renewables, you’re wrong. If you think all we need to do is plant trees, you’re wrong. If you describe any one thing as “the solution” to climate change, you’re wrong.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Incredible de facto social science experiment. Collective honking resets red light countdown to more time. Will it reduce honking? I think so

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  17. Jan 31

    We now have multiple Republican senators explicitly or implicitly saying “Trump is guilty but let’s hurry up and get the acquittal over with.” Once again, reality is far outstripping the imagination of the most cynical satirist.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    proposing Jan 31, 1990 (opening of first Soviet McDonalds) to Jan 31, 2020 (Brexit) as the official start & end dates of the Era of High Globalization

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  19. Jan 31

    is clearly much younger but that just shows he’s smarter than most and got to the right conclusion faster.

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  20. Jan 31

    I’ve often thought this is a big part of the explanation for happiness bottoming out c. 48 to 52.

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  21. Jan 31

    Jeff Bezos' net worth increased by $13.2 billion. In 15 minutes.

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