An analysis of everything from views on climate change to perceptions of risks from GMOs or vaccines brought up one universally valid truth: people tend to believe what their friends, affiliates, or peer-group believe. Peoples’ views on these topics have less to do with any opposition
Since 2011 or even earlier, I have been seeing images, articles, and storytellers all recounting of a “banana experiment.” This experiment is supposedly the groundbreaking proof that our sometimes rabid defense of power structures and tradition are actually evolutionarily grounded. Before I explain what
If you look at your favorite pseudoscientific website, you will probably find a story about how taking “selfies” (or photos of yourself) is indicative of narcissism and mental illness. Certainly, most sites we name on our “list of bad sources” have posted this at
Deciding which language is “most useful” is a question of what you are trying to do. The most logical answer is that the most useful languages are those that are spoken, and connected to, as many other languages as possible. To figure out the
Now, before anyone gets mad: I am the child of two professional dancers who earned the vast majority of their income in their adult lives through performing, competing, and teaching. The truism that white people cannot dance is not a universal truth, but is
A new study by researchers at the Islamic University of Bangladesh investigated whether software could correctly identify the emotion of a person typing on a computer, simply by how long they held down the keys and how fast the participants typed. They found that
A recent meta-analysis conducted by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), the Zoological Society of London, and several key contributions from researchers from Standford and Cambridge universities, has found that Earth’s ecological well-being is vastly more endangered than previously accepted. When looking at representative populations
This infographic does a good job at summing up the facts and figures, correctly identifying the fact that the death penalty is not very effective as a deterrent. Although the death penalty offers a permanent solution to persistent patterns of anti-social behavior, it would
Why does sexual abuse continue to happen so often in our society, so much that approximately 1/5 to 1/4 of all women experience rape or attempted rape? Well, that statistic might be a tiny bit misleading, so let’s break down what the CDC has
What children see: that take to be representative of reality. That is really just a more complicated way of saying that children expect, apply, and anticipate what they see far more than what they hear. Good parents do more than just explain what is
