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Entries Tagged ‘Science’

Something from nothing

Join critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss as they discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics. The authors will also discuss their new books. Dawkins recently published The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True, an exploration of the magic of [...]

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Dunning–Kruger effect in action

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Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson – A fascinatingly disturbing thought

This is a small part of the bigger Cosmic Quandries, which is worth checking out as well.

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Evolution

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The Popcorn Analogy

mrbazooka explains radiometric dating. I really like the stuff mrbazooka comes up with. It always makes you think.  If you’re ever on reddit, have a look for his posts.  They’re worth it.

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Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it’s OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we’re predictably irrational — and can be influenced in ways we can’t grasp.

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Are we in control of our own decisions?

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.

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America’s Science Decline – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil talks about how the amount of peer reviewed science research being done in the U.S. has gone down since 2000, and gone up in other places like Japan, China, and Europe.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Perimeter of Ignorance

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about Newton’s belief in God and why it was harmful.

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Tree of Knowledge

From the January, 1928 journal (magazine?) Evolution: A Journal of Nature.

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