Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person Confronted with an atrocity they otherwise can’t explain, people become slightly more likely, on average, to believe that the victims must have brought it on themselves.
Category Archives: farce
Statistical proof: the Leafs stink
Thursday, April 10, 2014
The Maple Leafs’ Collapse Is A Victory For Rationality This is not me being overdramatic. This was a season with a built-in black-and-white storyline, making it a referendum on who better grasps hockey—those who know how to interpret the numbers, or those actually running a team.
Stupidity is hardwired
Friday, September 20, 2013
The Most Depressing Discovery About the Brain, Ever Nyan and his collaborators have been running experiments trying to answer this terrifying question about American voters: Do facts matter? The answer, basically, is no. When people are misinformed, giving them facts to correct those errors only makes them cling to their beliefs more tenaciously.
hockey
Friday, May 31, 2013
Why Can’t Canada Win the Stanley Cup? […] there is almost certainly a shortage of N.H.L. teams in Canada relative to the demand for hockey there and the revenues that Canada contributes to the league. […] Had the distribution of N.H.L. teams more closely matched fan interest in the sport across the United States and […]
Mormonism: even stranger than i thought
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Why I Love Mormonism – Simon Critchley […] “ ‘As man now is, God once was. As God now is, man may be.’ ” “So, dear Simon,” my new friend concluded, “we, too, can become Gods, American Gods, no less.” He chuckled. I was astonished.
Welcome to Sex House!
Sunday, September 9, 2012
A masterpiece of modern satire from the Onion, they’ve really outdone themselves this time. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL622682EF88B3C077[/youtube]
and they can still talk
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Forty years in solitary: two men mark sombre anniversary in Louisiana prison Since 1972, Wallace and Woodfox have been brought before more than 150 prison boards where their unprecedented duration in solitary confinement has been reviewed only for them to be sent straight back to their cells. The only explanation given: “Nature of the original […]
Meanwhile, in Alberta
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Alberta’s education minister said he was assaulted on Saturday while door-knocking at a home in the provincial election campaign, but the man who answered the door denied hitting Thomas Lukaszuk.
Love, hate and cognitive dissonance
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Benjamin Franklin Effect The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate. The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
