January 2012
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List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial... →
There are 176068 kg of stuff on the Moon, 22628 kg on Venus and 8403 kg on Mars.
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ketchupstan asked: Do you think there's a psychological equivalent to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle? I.E., that there's a limit on the accuracy of psychological observations when the subject is aware of those observations.
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Why many people perceive psychology as...
Whenever we psychologists dare to venture outside of the hallowed halls of academia or our therapy offices to that foreign land called the “real world,” we are likely at some point to encounter a puzzling and, for us, troubling phenomenon. Specifically, most of us will inevitably hear the assertion from laypersons that psychology—which those of us within the profession generally regard as the...
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“So at the present time I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that...”
– John F. Nash, Jr. mathematician and schizophrenic.
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“What is behind the curtain is only interesting if the curtain can be pulled...”
– The Siren Call of Logical Positivism
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beafcakes asked: Science should trump politics? E.G. In our society, human technological advancements are applauded, instead of scolded.
wearyexile asked: People who have a pacemaker on the equator line registered a 55% higher chance of having a heart attack. I know it's still a small number and might be coincidence. A coleague of mine showed us that number. Sorry for the inaccuracy, then.
wearyexile asked: Actually, solar flares can be dangerous to people that have pacemakers.
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mynotalentblog asked: Aren't solar flares more dangerous for satellites and the ISS?
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nothinkinginvolved asked: Are solar flares predictable? or dangerous?
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Anonymous asked: Can you explain or have a post on the Solar Flare that took place yesterday ?
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I think I just reached the last stage of boredom.
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I often feel that people’s efforts to prove that I’m wrong about something, end up making them even more ridiculous than what I thought.
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Sometimes it’s really hard not to troll people.
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“Former United States Vice President Dick Cheney, for example, reportedly...”
– ‘Feeling validated versus being correct’ (2009) by Hart et al.
People are motivated to defend their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors from challenges and therefore to selectively search for congenial information that confirm pre-existing views, and to avoid uncongenial information.
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starberrypink asked: do you believe in a sixth sense?
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Anonymous asked: How do you think the universe came about?
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psirate asked: thank you for your little essay about asexuality, it was educating and massivly fascinating. you helped me a lot understanding the basics of this topic. :)
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Some notes for a basic understanding of asexuality
This will be a long post, a classical tl;dr kind of post. I read something this morning, I read this post about asexuality and the show Sherlock. It made me think, and given that asexuality was a topic on which I discussed sometimes, but that I never thought with proper attention, I decide to educate myself. I searched for scientific articles on this matter, and I found only 10 of them. This post...
I just watched a video in which a guy was seriously saying that dinosaurs were very big lizards that lived with Adam and Eve and that were later killed by people, and that is because there are all these legends about dragons.
This is far from being just a primitive superstitions, this is delusion.