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.
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 […]
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.
A masterpiece of modern satire from the Onion, they’ve really outdone themselves this time. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL622682EF88B3C077[/youtube]
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 […]
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.
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.
You Are Not Dead 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 […]
Makers of Worlds Imagine a world – call it Mundavia – in which the dominant genre of literature is one in which plots, dialogue, and setting can be freely invented, but all the characters have to be real people.
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