Reclaiming Skepticism | Corbett Report: Episode 221
Via The Corbett Report : Website • Download • RSS Skeptics are those who advocate taking a provisional approach to all claims and carefully evaluating all the evidence before coming to a conclusion. In...
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Phishing For Trolls With Jesus
This is a test. This is only a test. Had this been an actual religious emergency, the omnipotent creator of the universe would surely be sending plagues and pestilence, lightning bolts, or perhaps a...
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Why Nobody Cares What You Think (And What You Can Do About It)
Let me start off by stipulating that I am TOTALLY in your corner, homes. I completely feel your pain, the frustration of having to repeat even the simplest proposition over and over and over (and over)...
View ArticleLogical Fallacies (Video)
A great primer for the emerging auto-didactic class. “Sorta on the side of evil, if you want to persuade people, mastering fallacies is a very useful skill. If you want to defend against being...
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Jenna Jameson Endorses Mitt Romney
Photo credit: Luke Ford, lukeford.net Well, why not? After all, wafflemongers like Alec Baldwin get to have opinions all the time. It must be admitted, Jameson’s ideas do have a direct simplicity...
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Crows Are Capable Of Human-Style Reasoning
Today, this news, tomorrow, a bird parliament. Crows living in a controlled environment have shown that they possess a sophisticated form of reasoning believed to be a hallmark of humanity alone, Wired...
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Children and the Great Blur
All children suffer when they are born to varying degrees. This is no pessimistic life-is-an-illness-with-a-terrible-diagnonis-because-its-outcome-cannot-be-but-fatal rigmarole. Far from it; however,...
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Liberals Are More Emotion-Driven than Conservatives
Via ScienceDaily: Emotions are powerful motivators of human behavior and attitudes. Emotions also play an important role in guiding policy support in conflict and other political contexts. Researchers...
View ArticleSeattle, please go–city council wants you out of your home
An independent YouTuber rants about his complaints against the storm of bad decisions reigning through Seattle. Most of the video is an analysis of the city council choosing to send the city housing...
View ArticlePorn Causes Tsunamis and Earthquakes
The interesting PZ Myers writes on Pharyngula: Powerful stuff, that porn. The Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information (who must be very smart to have a title like that) has determined...
View ArticleTop 10 Logical Fallacies in Politics
And all this time I thought politicians just spoke a different language that only sounded like English. E. Magill writes in Open Salon: The human brain is wired all wrong. Those not... The post Top 10...
View ArticleThe Science Of Why We Don’t Believe Science
Wondering how evolution developed us into creatures who don’t believe in evolution? Mother Jones explains why large numbers of people tend to believe things that make no sense, and why the human... The...
View ArticleEat The Academy
On Preventing the Ceremonies of Dumb People in Hollywood From Being a Burden on Their Parent Companies or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public “I am giving an account... The post Eat...
View ArticleZeno’s Paradox of Tony Blair
In international politics there exists a curious paradox involving a multifaceted human personage called Publius and a cunning tortoise called Tony. The post Zeno’s Paradox of Tony Blair appeared first...
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