Reading the Bible
This summer I thought it would be an interesting project to sit down and read the Bible cover to cover. (Perhaps later I can tackle the Qur’an.) At the ti...
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The Relationship Uncertainty Principle
A long long time ago, a friend and I wrote a document on the science of relationships. It was mostly silly, but it did have one section that wasn’t just m...
Any Psychologists in the House?
Can anyone explain to me why people love talking about things like they’re experts when they really don’t know anything about the subject? Like this...
Going Gradeless
I’ve talked to quite a few people who agree that high school students focus too much on grades and too little on the actual learning — that students...
Literary Analysis: Metaphysics?
Science is limited by what scientists are capable of measuring. Our understanding of reality can only reach as far as our best experiments. If you were to ask a...
P2P Learning
I think education needs to take a hint from the Internet. Peer-to-peer communication, using protocols like BitTorrent, forms a significant share of all of the t...
Your Attention Please
If you expect me to solve your computer problem, you will have to tell me more than “I tried to go to the website and it didn’t work.” I’...
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...
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...