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Nassim Nicholas Taleb THE BLACK SWAN The Impact of the Highly Improbable Contents Prologue On the Plumage of Birds What You Do Not Know Experts and “Empty Suits” Learning to Learn A New Kind of Ingratitude Life Is Very Unusual Plato and the Nerd Too Dull to Write About The Bottom Line Chapters Map PART ONE: UMBERTO ECO’S ANTILIBRARY, OR HOW WE SEEK VALIDATION Chapter 1: The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic Anatomy of a Black Swan On Walking Walks “Paradise” Evaporated The Starred Night History and the Triplet of Opacity Nobody Knows What’s Going On History Does Not Crawl, It Jumps Dear Diary: On History Running Backward Education in a Taxicab Clusters Where Is the Show? 8¾ Lbs Later The Four-Letter Word of Independence Limousine Philosopher Chapter 2: Yevgenia’s Black Swan Chapter 3: The Speculator and the Prostitute The Best (Worst) Advice Beware the Scalable The Advent of Scalability Scalability and Globalization Travels Inside Mediocristan The Strange Country of Extremistan Extremistan and Knowledge Wild and Mild The Tyranny of the Accident Chapter 4: One Thousand and One Days, or How Not to ......