Synchronized Presidential Debating
I missed this the first time around, I guess, since it was posted over at 23/6 towards the end of October. But this video of all three debates synchronized really makes you wonder whether the...
View ArticleSuicide, Genius, and Karma
I came upon a peculiar intersection these last two days. On the first day I received the question. On the second day I got the answer. It was an unusual alignment of things in my life; generally...
View ArticleAs Beautiful As It Should Be
I spent some time this weekend getting sucked into a parallel universe where a porn star is running for the senate. Okay, well, I did actually watch an episode of Sliders this weekend.1 Turns out that...
View ArticleYou Can’t Yell ‘Fire’ in a Crowded Theater but You Can on TV
[UPDATE: Apparently, I'm clearly not the only one with a problem with Glenn Beck. A petition making the rounds has caused multiple advertisers to stop their support of Glenn Beck's show. If his...
View ArticleGet Skeptical
In a small but valiant effort to get the Skeptic’s Dictionary higher up in the PageRank system (at Google) I am linking to their entry on Deepak Chopra today. Consider the following statement: “Quantum...
View ArticleThe Bechdel Test
I can’t say that I’m at all shocked by the fact that Hollywood is a male-driven industry or that the content of the movies they make are male-dominated, but I thought that more progress than this had...
View ArticlePrecognition—Paranormal or Perfectly Normal?
If people can predict the future over the scale of very short time periods, should we be surprised. After all, many musicophiles are quite able to name a song after hearing just the first one to three...
View ArticleCounting Naturally?
Our cognitive skills are sometimes more a product of our culture than of nature, and that cultural aspect can lead to some funny thinking in our “common sense” and what we think we know about the...
View ArticleGoogle Goggles
I’ve been away from the blog a bit working on an academic project for graduate school, but how could I not take time out of my day to comment on Google Glass? This blog is subtitled “Your mind on...
View ArticleData-driven Willpower
In a world where many of us have our attention dominated by computer screens, debates rage about whether doing so has made us more productive or less, Are they helping us to socially connect or keeping...
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