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- "Submissions are due by May 31st and they’ll announce winners at the end of July." http://t.co/O3qHC8PY 1 week ago
- After we are gone, society will likely remember Perfect Strangers far more than they will remember us and our accomplishments. 1 week ago
- This book (about graphics for scientists) is only at the preorder stage, but it looks like a winner. Thanks to @nathan…http://t.co/pq9sYnAs 2 weeks ago
- Like most of the rest of you, I will celebrate The Avengers in the only way I know how: I'm going to sleep. AVENGE ME, PILLOW. 2 weeks ago
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Critical Thinking Archive
Delusions of Competence
Posted on March 10, 2011 | No CommentsThink you're completely in the driver's seat, with regard to your life? Your brain *wants* you to believe that.
Evolving our Science Education
Posted on February 16, 2011 | 2 CommentsIgnorance and fear are driving a lousy trend; fewer American children learn about evolution as a unifying principle.
So Bad, It’s Educational
Posted on February 3, 2011 | No CommentsUse the Star Wars prequels to teach your kids what good film-making doesn't looks like.
Exactly the Same and Completely Different
Posted on January 27, 2011 | 2 CommentsWhat would it have been like if Mitt Romney had won the 2008 election? Pretty much the same.
Misrepresenting a Memoir as a How-To Book
Posted on January 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe recent WSJ story about Amy Chua is a hot load of crap. It tells us more about WSJ than it does about Ms. Chua.
Again with the Time Visualization
Posted on December 13, 2010 | No CommentsI love Sagan's cosmic calendar along with any other tool that helps to make the impossible vista of time a bit more understandable for our little meat brains.
Less Wronger
Posted on November 23, 2010 | 2 CommentsIt's better to be less wrong than just interesting.
It’s Complicated
Posted on November 11, 2010 | No CommentsHappy Veteran's Day. I a patriot, enamored of my particular view of things, who knows that I'm dead wrong. Let's hear it for massive confusion.
Economic Ignorance
Posted on November 9, 2010 | No CommentsMallards swimming in gold coins can't prepare us to be an expert on reworking the federal budget. Oh crap.
The Spiritual Universe
Posted on November 5, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe universe is filled with awe and utterly suffused with built-in wonder and I hope to impart as much of that to my son as possible.