A great article by Michael Shermer. I highly recommend it to everyone. My favorite line: “The reason for this cognitive disconnect is that we have evolved brains that pay attention to anecdotes because false positives (believing there is a connection between A and B when there is not) are usually harmless, whereas false negatives (believing…
When they showed up for The Colbert Report, the show producers asked Rush to play their signature song, Tom Sawyer, on Rock Band. Hilarity ensued.
You were my first TV crush and you’ll always be my favorite. And although I always scoff when other people say similar things, it’s true when I say that, in my world, nobody will ever be a better Wonder Woman than you. So, here’s a little tribute to Lynda Carter on her birthday as sung…
(from Factcheck.org) Planned Parenthood is running a TV ad showing John McCain painfully groping for an answer to a reporter’s question: “It’s unfair that health insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control. Do you have an opinion on that?” McCain had good reason to be flustered. The premise of the reporter’s question is a…
In 1979, James S. McDonnell donated $500,000 to Washington University in Missouri for the establishment of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research. When James Randi heard about the project, he offered his services to the project to help avoid the problems Uri Gellar caused at the Stanford Research Institute. Randi’s offer of help was disregarded;…
Who all is going to Strategicon at the end of August? (I will be running Houses of the Blooded and I will have books. There may be a Houses LARP. If you’re lucky.)
The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a cable to US missions forbidding them from holding events for presidential candidates or arrange meetings for them. Rice issued no such cable prior to…
“Nature’s way of tricking us into having babies.” A brilliant discussion of the biology of love. What it does to our brians, how it changes our thinking, etc.