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I listened to the first episode with Carol Tavris on Mistakes, Justification, and Cognitive Dissonance It was pretty interesting.
Coincidentally I stumbled upon an article on the same topic on The Atlantic: The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain
I've stumbled upon this channel: History Buffs. There are some interesting movie reviews, done from the angle of historic accuracy.
One in particular turned out to be much more than just a movie review. I'ts about Dance with Wolves. As I really like the movie, naturally I was curious to see how...
Who is this Corbyn person. Does he and his party have a chance to win next elections.
From what little I've read, he's against austerity measures and for increasing taxes for the rich.
What do you think? Is he good or bad. Would it be good for the UK and EU if he became the next prime...
This is a lecture by Robert Sapolsky. It's a part of a course that's posted on Stanford's YT channel but this one lecture wasn't included for some reason.
Lecture Collection | Human Behavioral Biology a link to a playlist containing all the lectures in that course (except the one I linked above).
This is a trade agreement that allows corporations to sue governments for, get this:
Is this the end of democracy? Corporations seem to be very powerful today. They own politicians and probably will use them to erode democracy further by passing laws that are favourable to them.
Tobacco...
I found this cool. It's from Thunderf00t. It doesn't contain drama, if you were wondering :)
What started as a youtube project on explosions ended up in him publishing a paper.
http://www.theleagueofreason.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=160472#p160472
I think this is the second time I'm seeing a person complaining about difficulty in reading posts due to them being colour blind.(people, not posts)
Perhaps we could limit the choice of colours in post edit form to those which...
I found this talk interesting.
It's about foundations of science denial. It also shows possible ways of tailoring your arguments so they actually have an impact on your target audience, as opposed to throwing at your opponent a bunch of data and arguments, you thought were convincing.