Why People Believe Weird Things, Redux
Michael Shermer wrote a book called Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, which I own and have read se...
Month: March 2008
Statistics and Stuff
Over on SFN, we’ve been interested in figuring out how to stimulate growth and post volume to allow SFN to expand. It’s an interesting challenge ...
Review: The Mind of the Market
I recently bought Michael Shermer’s latest book, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economi...
I’m No Good At Taking Tests!
I hear people say they aren’t good at taking tests all the time. “I understand the material, but when I take the test, I fail!” I can understa...
The PowerPoint Method
PowerPoint seems to be a popular teaching aid. After all, it saves lots of messy writing on the board or the use of boring overhead projectors. And who doesn...
WordPress Statistics Plugin Installed
For those of you interested in how many people visit your blog, go to your blog admin panel and click Plugins. You should see a plugin called FireStats enabled ...
Understanding
I spend quite a bit of my time helping high school students understand physics and mathematics concepts, so I’ve also spent some time wondering how I can ...
How It Works
Some of you might be wondering how we linked SFN and WordPress together. Others are just glad that it does work. For those of you that wonder, here’s the ...