I'm halfway through a brand new book by psychologist Thomas Kida, titled Don't Believe Everything You Think. Kida does a good job of collecting and summarizing a huge number of cognitive traps and frailties that afflict humans. The book focuses on the following six categories of cognitive traps: We prefer…
The inventive minds at freeway blogger have one solution: With some ordinary cardboard (taken from big box retailers' dumpsters, of course), some poster paint, and a bungee cord, you too can reach a captive audience of thousands in the span of a few minutes. In the age of corporately owned…
Just when we thought the chaos in Iraq was about as bad as it could be, darned if the violence in Baghdad hasn't managed to increase by 40% in just the past week: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Here's what MSNBC reports regarding the newly passed bill "to protect the pledge of allegiance." The bill's sponsor, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., said America was a nation of God-given inalienable rights and that's why the country is in a war against "radical Islamists." Democrats wouldn't want to "cut and run"…
As reported by Think Progress, Karl Rove –"told the Denver Post that 'recent studies' show researchers 'have far more promise from adult stem cells than from embryonic stem cells.'" This provoked the people at Think Progress to do some digging. Here's what they found: The Chicago Tribune contacted a dozen…