What the author meant, what the teacher tnhinks the author meant…
In a discussion about this picture "Math student here. The majority of the math that they teach in high school is completely worthless to the average person. The curriculum here…
Quote from: Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test: Effects of Intelligence and Intelligence Context
gordon-1997-everyday-life-as-an-intelligence-test-effects-of-intelligence-and-intelligence-context (Thanks to this guy for making me aware of the paper) "Take, for example, complaints concerning a Year IV-6 Stanford-Binet item, which shows three pairs of sharply contrasting drawings…
Review of Jeffrey Dhywood’s World War-D
http://www.amazon.com/against-prohibitionism-roadmap-controlled-re-legalization/dp/0984690409/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332698625&sr=8-1 http://www.world-war-d.com/ One can support the author by buying 'the book' from his site. This applies for the ebook version as well. Alternatively, one can just click here: World war-D Altho…
Review of Psychology Applied to Modern Life: ADJUSTMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Applied-Modern-Life-Adjustment/dp/1111186634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332697052&sr=8-1 I heard of the book from LessWrong. I was reading the series about the science of winning at life by Lukeprog and he recommended this book if one had…
Descartes joke
It seems to me that Descartes' book "Meditations on First Philosophy" should have been called "First Philosophy of Medications". He was clearly a multi-substance user. ;) Also, other lame puns…
Beneficial effects of expore to nature
“If taking up mindfulness meditation does not seem to be a likely course of action for you anytime soon, there is a simpler way for you to increase your atten-…
Recent paper about democracy and self-assessment/Dunning-Kruger
More mainstream article that mentioned the study: http://news.yahoo.com/people-arent-smart-enough-democracy-flourish-scientists-185601411.html The actual paper: A Mathematical Model of Democratic Elections Original Dunning-Kruger paper: unskilledandunaware "Abstract: Democratic election is the preferred method for determining…
Sex difference in hygiene
A friend of mine recently showed me a blog of one of her friends. Since it has an absurd amount of posts (like my blogs, but even more!), i tried…
Nationalism, patriotism – difference?
From a 4chan thread: OP: What's the difference between nationalism and patriotism? Emil: l2google. Spent <5 mins on Google and found this. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/patriotism/#PatNat Because you may not know how to…
Alcoholism and LSD
http://politiken.dk/videnskab/ECE1566364/forskere-syretrip-er-godt-mod-alkoholisme/ (danish) http://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200 Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for alcoholism meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Abstract: “Assessments of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in the treatment of alcoholism have not been based…
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