Social Sciences
May 2014
May 25, 2014
The BBC has an article that puts experimental research behind advice I've long been giving...
September 2013
September 10, 2013
Wikipedia has a lot of information on this experiment and its legacy here. Adapting this...
April 2013
April 17, 2013
The story of this resilient autistic teenager and her indefatigably committed parents brought tears to...
April 02, 2013
I posted to Facebook what I thought was a very interesting article about consent that...
January 2013
January 02, 2013
Results of a study "revealed that those individuals who reported experiencing verbal abuse from their...
July 2012
July 29, 2012
Meditations on my personal experience with introversion, extroversion, friendship, interpersonal intimacy, small groups, large groups,...
May 2012
May 28, 2012
While most of us rightly want to be exceptional in some way or another, we...
January 2012
January 17, 2012
Scientific American summarizes studies which locate people's distrust of atheists in their fears that atheists...
January 12, 2012
I saw this image on Facebook and I find it mesmerizing. Your Thoughts?
January 12, 2012
Yale psychologist and author of How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like...
January 12, 2012
Over LoggingGet More: SOUTHPARKmore... That full, brilliant South Park episode is here. Now the science:...
January 11, 2012
Sorry for the hiccup as the site was down, but now that we're back up,...
January 11, 2012
Robert Trivers, author of the new book The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit...
January 10, 2012
In November, a Christian gelato store owner temporarily put up a sign refusing to serve...
January 08, 2012
Salvaging Religion In this post I am going to explore the dangers of religion. For...
November 2011
November 25, 2011
In the last several posts I've written about ethics, I have been talking in part...
November 22, 2011
Lou Marinoff is the Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the City College of...
November 21, 2011
I may have underestimated in the past just how bad misperceptions of us are: Consider...
November 21, 2011
PZ and Crommunist offer nice denunciations of the significance of a graphic which has been going...
November 20, 2011
In this audio file from Philosophy Bites, philosopher of mind Tim Crane discusses what philosophical and psychological methods there are...
November 20, 2011
MIT researchers make progress towards a potentially amazing accomplishment: For decades, scientists have dreamed of...
November 07, 2011
That is Paul Zak's theory. The video is fascinating: Now I just need to find...
October 2011
October 31, 2011
The website You Are Not So Smart does an outstanding job of explaining all sorts of...
October 15, 2011
One of the most important mental disciplines is to assess yourself honestly. We are so...
October 07, 2011
1. Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid. 2. Make Believers Stay on Topic During Debates. 3....
October 02, 2011
The weekend after George W. Bush's reelection, I attended a MoveOn.org get together at my...
September 2011
September 28, 2011
Gay blogger Jim Burroway believes that Lady Gaga's advocacy for the LGBT community is genuine and...
September 25, 2011
Susie Bright, in an interview with Salon explains an accidental discovery: There were about a...
September 19, 2011
Kelly: You are a moral absolutist, Jaime. Jaime: Nonsense. You are the one who wants...
September 18, 2011
A fascinating video, via PZ, who also offers some analysis. ;feature=player_embedded#! Your Thoughts?
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