Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
This one is for Digital Cuttlefish! They’ve just had another offer to have their work put to music, and I was reminded of this piece. Do yourself a favour and check out the verse on that site too! “A VideoSong on the various types of cognitive bias for my AP Psychology students. I promised my [...]
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From XKCD: Have I ever mentioned that I had two students do a preliminary study on ‘Bloody Mary’ / ‘Candyman‘ by doing this exact same thing? They had issues finding enough non-pop culture resources on the origin of doing it though and eventually switched their project to just looking at the Ouija board. I should [...]
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The first question I have is – did you join in on the #fisting recently on Twitter? Secondly – do you know the guy in the photo that Scott Hurst photographed? By the way – if the title isn’t a warning enough, yes, this post is the sort that will get me firmly registered on [...]
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The wonderful internetz will be deprived of my glorious presence for much of this month. There’s several reasons that come to mind: The temperature here has resulted in only particular room in the house to be the most comfortable for typing in – and it happens to be the room with all the academically-minded books [...]
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So, how much science can you get outside of the science classroom? How effective are museums, tutoring, zoos, centers and the like? A new study has just come out as a report from the National Research Council of the National Academies (including the Board on Science Education, Center for Education and the Division of Behavioural [...]
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Are parapsychologists just jumping on the ‘weird physics’ bandwagon? My first response to this question was actually a recollection of an event last year; Dr Richard Wiseman (who was interviewed earlier in this course) was presenting at a university on the topic of luck. During the Q&A, an enthusiastic listener stood up and asked if [...]
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And if you’d prefer the audio version — head to Skeptic Zone! There is also a series of educational resources on Educational Zone: Episode One — 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Resources.
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A relative was very recently told that the malignant brain tumor that was supposedly removed successfully – has returned. The only hint we got was dizzy spells and some disorientation. We thought it was gone, but apparently not. This has been something that has been ongoing this year and I haven’t really felt like discussing [...]
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