Topics about how people think and learn (especially children), and various tricks and techniques for teaching — not just school learning, but *life* learning.
I’ve never been able to understand people who reject scientific evidence outright, in favor of whatever their chosen authorities dictate. (I recently saw a quote that sums it up: “[T]he problem with all the “science deniers” is they think the argument is about power and “we” think it is about what reality is.”) The book …
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It makes sense, things that are “good for you” never feel good. 😉
I’ve long suspected that brains don’t have to be human-sized for intelligence.
Short answer: not bloody likely. At least not in my lifetime.
And to top it all off (so to speak), it’s called the Happiness Hat. Ouch.
Food for thought.
Happy Hallowe’en! Here‘s a vaguely Hallowe’en-themed article I stumbled across last week. It’s exciting, but the scary part is what an amoral dictator could do with it once it’s perfected.
An interesting rider to the old saying.
You’ve got to love the human race’s ability to turn off its collective brain.
I’ve always called lottery tickets “a tax on people who are bad at math,” but Cracked.com takes the opportunity of the recession, and the accompanying surge of “financial idiocy,” to take it one step several steps further. (The truth’d-up lottery tickets are hilarious.)