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Science is far too awesome to be entrusted to the unenthusiastic.

It always disappoints me when I attenda lecture about scientific topics that are actually endlesslyfascinating and full of depth and beauty, delivered as if they weredry and mechanical pebble-counting. This does a dee…
Of rights and research, rats and undergrads

[JD 2455107.25] PeTA2 recently gave a presentation onthe (alleged) horrible abuses of animals in scientific and medicalresearch. I wasn't able to…
Nature via Nurture

[JD 2455103.40] Proof we are not genetic automatons:I can speak English. I wasn't born speaking English, I had tolearn it. I could just as easily have learned Spanish or Arabic orMandarin, as indeed many people do. …
Propaganda, advertising, consciousness-raising

[JD 2455090.82.] What, exactly, is the difference between advertising and propaganda? The only difference I can see is that propaganda is put forth by a government, and advertising is put forth by a corporation. So, if…
Stupid Rules Normal People Follow

[Note: I'm using the word "normal"in this post. Those who are not normal—myself included—should nottake offense; I am using this term in the mathematical sense of "nearthe mean of a normal distribution," as in within …
Against expected utility

If I offered you the chance to playthis lottery game, just one time, would you take it?For $1,000, you may have a 1/1,000chance to win $10,000,000.Your expected winnings are +$9,000! Whathave you got to lose?…
The Friend Zone.

One person wants platonic friendship, the other wants romance; the result is a friendship made awkward by sexual tension. Most of us have been in such a relationship; but do any of us know what causes them? One propos…
What is economics?

Economics is not the study of howpeople should behave. It hasno place for a distinction between act and omission, no sense offairness or justice, none of the nuances of prescription that wouldbe necessary to make it …
"You know how men are; you're a man."

Yes, and this is why I can predict toperfect accuracy every behavior of every human male on the entireplanet, without exception. I merely think, "What would I do?"and immediately it becomes clear what every other ma…
"Maybe I'm just hungry."

Some time ago, I read a post on anonline discussion forum—I think it was on Dawkins.netactually—which made this claim: Scientists have low emotion…

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