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By Dan Klarmann on January 11th, 2008

Counterknowledge and the Web

I stumbled onto this excellent column by Damian Thompson about the modern proliferation of pseudo-information. That is, the way various formerly obscure conspiracy cults (UFO’s, moon landing hoaxers, second-shooters, 9/11 Truthers, Flat Earthers, Young Earthers, Inflating Earthers, etc) manage to disseminate their beliefs convincingly to wide and gullible audiences.
Before Gutenberg, only reliable, church-approved texts could [...]

American Culture • Communication • Current Events • Education • Fraud • History • Recommended Reading/Films/Sites • Religion • Science • Web Site
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By Erich Vieth on December 23rd, 2007

Approach everything as though you were a jazz player

I’m a newcomer to an extremely popular website called Lifehack.  The site specializes in “hacks, tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing.” 
There is obviously a lot to consider at Lifehack.org.  One might wonder, though, how much time one should spend on productivity lest one’s productivity sags.  Despite this self-limiting [...]

Psychology Cognition • Web Site • music
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By Erich Vieth on December 17th, 2007

Searching Dangerous Intersection (or anything else) with Google’s Advanced Search

Dangerous intersection is now more than 1 1/2 years old.  We currently have a couple dozen active authors who have contributed 1,500 posts on 60 categories.  These posts have drawn almost 7,000 comments.  Many of these posts (I’m guessing perhaps one-third of them) make reference to news of the day, and will age quickly.  There are [...]

Technology • Web Site
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By Erich Vieth on November 21st, 2007

The best social psychology studies of all time . . .

Psyblog presents a handy summary of ten of the most famous social psychology studies. The post is a succinct review of each of the following studies, along with thoughtful commentary.  The social psychological studies include the following:
 1. The Halo Effect - Nisbett
 2. Cognitive Dissonance - Festinger
 3. Robbers Cave - Sherif
 4. Stanford Prison Experiment - Zimbardo
 5. Obedience [...]

Psychology Cognition • Web Site
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By Dan Klarmann on November 19th, 2007

Internet Aimlessness Can Lead to Odd Treasures

One of my favorite current cartoonists is Brooke McEldowney. I discovered his work online a few years ago in the form of “A Fairy Merry Christmas”. In the interest of copyright non-violation, I’ll leave it to youse to Google up your own excerpts.
This cartoon series was an NEA sponsored 6 week series. Finally, a use [...]

American Culture • Art • Humor • Language • Web Site • Whimsy
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By Dan Klarmann on October 05th, 2007

A Song to an Atheist

I have a friend who wrote a song to me. (Free mp3 download courtesy of Anderson Productions, Ltd.) “Dear Friend” appeared on Russ Anderson’s 2003 album, “Arsenal Street”. All his CD’s are Available here. I recommend listening to the song before proceeding.
This nice, eerie, and sometimes psychedelic song is a heartfelt plea for me to [...]

American Culture • Communication • Meaning of Life • Religion • Web Site
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By Erich Vieth on September 07th, 2007

Walking dots

Here’s another fun site. 15 dots walking–a walking animation. It’s amazing how much emotion can be conveyed by 15 dots.

Psychology Cognition • Web Site • Whimsy
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By Erika Price on August 31st, 2007

Remember, we all think dumb things.

Freethinkers, in their attempts to cast light on culture’s many logical foibles, can lose focus. Like the more traditional naysayers, who bemoan our times while looking foggily to those good-old-days that never existed, liberal critical thinkers can come to a similarly deluded doom-and-gloom conclusion. Of course, the evidence used by both camps differ completely- people [...]

American Culture • Culture • Psychology Cognition • Web Site
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By Dan Klarmann on July 24th, 2007

New Facts Could Disprove Evolution

This is the title of a newspaper commentary column that I stumbled onto recently. It was less annoying than I thought it would be. The “New Facts” turn out to be mainly the testimony of Ken Ham’s Creation Museum (Here’s my earlier post about that).
One gripe I have is the idea of testimony as evidence. [...]

Current Events • Evolution • Religion • Web Site
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By Erich Vieth on July 21st, 2007

Gore on television

Television is part of the American political problem, but not only for the obvious reasons.  See Ebonmuse’s review of Al Gore’s new book, The Assault on Reason.  Here’s an excerpt:
[T]elevision is a time- and space-limited medium with high barriers to entry, making it in its essence a medium of the rich and powerful. It is [...]

Environment • Media • Uncategorized • Web Site
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By Erich Vieth on May 26th, 2007

Do you like fractals? Do you like Art? How about fractal art?

Dive in at Enchgallery.  You could spend quite a while at this site taking in the fractal sites.   Those fractals are common in nature, there is something other-worldly about these works of art.

Art • Web Site
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By Mindy Carney on May 23rd, 2007

The Hummer might die?

Just wanted to pass along this link to an article by one of favorite columnists.  He goes over the edge some days, but most of the time he is spot on in his rantings!
Enjoy -

American Culture • Consumerism • Current Events • Economy • Energy • Environment • Religion • Technology • Web Site • global warming
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By Erich Vieth on March 14th, 2007

Art that challenges

Here’s a good question:  why can’t a woman go topless wherever a man can? 
Sorry . . . I’m not buying answers like “Because that is the way it has always been” or “Because they are women.” 
Talk about equal rights!  The prevalent dress code inequity is motivated by the same mindset that leads some people to [...]

American Culture • Humor • Sex • Web Site • photography
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