Professor Elam

Sunday Nov 28 2010

Nassim Taleb has an update on his best seller The Black Swan. I mentioned this book, over 2 million sold, to blank stares in class the other day. Here is a good review by

Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine

Important events are unexpected. Barack edges out Hillary, McCain comes back from nowhere, how did those things happen?  Taleb examines such occurrences and makes the unexpected relevant.