February 6, 2006
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The Diamond Theory of Truth
"Legend says that when the stones
are brought together the diamonds
inside of them will glow."-- Harrison Ford in
"Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom"In today's online New York Times:
(1) A review of pop-archaeology TV,
"Digging for the Truth,"
(2) a Sunday news story,
"Looking for the Lie,"
(3) and a profile,
"Storyteller in the Family."From (1):
"The season premiere 'Digging for the Truth: The Real Temple of Doom,'
showed Mr. Bernstein in South America, exploring tunnels...."
From (2):
"... scientists are building a cognitive theory of deception to show what lying looks like...."
From (3):
"I did feel one had to get not just the facts, but the emotional underpinnings."
Related material:
Log24 on
Harrison Ford's birthday
last July--
-- and Mathematics and Narrative.
See also Saturday's entry,
Raiders of the Lost Matrix,
for logic as an aid in
detecting lies.
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