Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I’m busy, busy, busy – working on some qual research today in schools then it’s a meeting with a few members of the Philosophy cafe group I’m a member of, in regards to helping promote a workshop we’re doing later in the year for teachers. It’s a more productive use of time than questioning about [...]
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From The Scientific American Magazine an excellent six-page article – “Magic and the Brain: How Magicians “Trick” the Mind – Magicians have been testing and exploiting the limits of cognition and attention for hundreds of years. Neuroscientists are just beginning to catch up”: …In an unpublished study in 2006 Kuhn and cognitive neuroscientists Ben A. [...]
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It’s been a little while since I’ve gone in depth on this topic, so it’s probably a good opportunity for a recap! Especially after just having read Tall Tales About The Mind And Brain: Separating Fact From Fiction, edited by Sergio Della Sala. I’m pulling together the literature review for my dissertation on beliefs of [...]
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Remember the saga of the PEAR cables and Randi calling them out on their quality claims? Well, claims are one thing but… …cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed “audiophiles” recently couldn’t tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers. Yeah, coat hangers. [...]
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