Darn.
2013-11-12
Well, maybe Android soon?
Stupidity is hardwired
2013-09-20
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
2013-05-31
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 Canada, Canada would have more teams in the league and – very probably – at least one Stanley Cup championship.
Finally, and related to the excess demand for hockey in Canada, Canadian teams routinely sell out their arenas at high ticket prices — whether or not they are any good. This may reduce their incentive to compete.
Don’t miss that fans vs. income plot.
Mormonism: even stranger than i thought
2012-09-23
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!
2012-09-09
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
2012-05-01
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 reason for lockdown”.
Meanwhile, in Alberta
2012-04-08
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
2012-01-26
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.
Indeed.
2011-12-01
Research indicates patterns. Patterns improve predictably. And as statistics can be shown, our programming proves your worth in helping us help you temper your aimless movement.
Life takes work. Death takes self. Being Not Dead takes Self Work: reflective examination, self interrogation and the guts to gash the bites and suck out the poison—all your conflicting thoughts and uncooperative emotions.
With the direction of You Are Not Dead: a Guide to Modern Living and the determination you give Self Work, knotting the ties that bind and answering for your signs, you will:
Learn to resist trifling complexities. Recognize the paths that are deceptively easy and those unnecessarily hard. Be mindful of delusion and mean to do something about it. Be open to closure and sew the wounds shut.
