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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 | Leave a Comment »

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 | Leave a 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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The Psychology of Ice Cream

Posted in general science, psychology, tagged , , , , , on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In the psychological study of learning, there has been a lot of research on how to reinforce behaviours. Of particular interest is the timing of rewards. If you want someone to keep doing something, do you reward them every time they do it? Or do you reward them only some of the [...]

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