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Book Review: Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Posted in book reviews, general science, philosophy on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ll keep this short, because Freakonomics is a pretty simple book. It takes a look at various topic—the effect of names on success, drug dealer salaries, cheating in sumo wrestling, etc.—through the eyes of an economist.
This book is a few years old (and has a sequel out now), and it took me a while to [...]

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Normal Activity

Posted in general science, horror, philosophy, psychology, real life, tagged , , on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s Halloween time, so as one would expect, many ghostly happenings have been … happening.
A few nights ago I had a lovely date night with myself. I got some snacks and some wine, turned off all the lights except for a single candle, and sat down to watch a scary movie. I’d never seen The [...]

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Children of the Corn

Posted in general science, media, tagged , , , on July 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

There’s a commercial for bottled water on TV right now that shows kids frolicking in a swimming pool, and a voiceover goes something like: “your children don’t swim in high fructose corn syrup.”
The conclusion you’re supposed to draw, I guess, is that your kids shouldn’t eat foods with high fructose corn syrup, and should instead [...]

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It’s Almost Like ESP, Day 2

Posted in general science, psychology, tagged , , , on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Richard Wiseman’s Twitter remote viewing experiment, part 2.

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It’s Almost Like ESP

Posted in general science, psychology, technology, tagged , , , , , , on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

A look at Richard Wiseman’s experiment using Twitter to test remote viewing.

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Secondhand Transmission from a Distant World

Posted in general science, misc, philosophy, writing, tagged , , , , , on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Everyone is an alien to someone.
I’m in my late 20s. To anyone under the age of 18 today, I’m from a world they have never been to, and never will. A world we call the 1980s. It was inhabited by creatures with big curly hair that listened to cheesy pop music and grazed [...]

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Book Review: This is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin

Posted in book reviews, general science, media on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A review of Daniel Levitin’s book This is Your Brain on Music.

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Statistics

Posted in general science, psychology on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

(from xkcd)

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LHC

Posted in general science, philosophy, technology on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I love Google’s title image for today:

It’s a nice mix of recognizing an extremely important scientific accomplishment with just a pinch of end-of-the-world paranoia.
The truth is that the world has about the same chance of ending today as it did yesterday. But I think the dimwitted people protesting the large hadron collider [...]

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Minor Issues

Posted in general science, media, psychology, tagged , , on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been thinking about music a lot lately. Yesterday, I had a conversation about why certain chords tend to “sound good” together. It seems like a lot of it has to do with the physical layout of an instrument; certain chords are easier to play together on a guitar. Since most rock [...]

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