by Carl Howard | Oct 26, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
I can’t believe I haven’t posted yet about one of the best YouTube channels I know. Crash Course is a weekly animated education series run by the quirky Green brothers. This year it’s biology and world history (with some fascinating takes). Next year, the world. One...
by Carl Howard | Oct 23, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Society, Travel
I’ve finished my series of posts on Central Asia. (You can find the full list here.) I wanted to write some sort of wrap-up and it may as well address what’s been bothering me about the whole trip and the region. The problems faced by the region are immense. But it’s...
by Carl Howard | Oct 19, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
While the US contraception “debate” (and especially Sandra Fluke’s Democratic Convention speech) has provoked a storm of batshit crazy and ludicrously offensive replies, this one might take the cake Amusing look at a man who’s on the conservative public lecture...
by Carl Howard | Oct 12, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Fascinating press release by Stanford: an academic of humanities has organised an MRI scan of literature students reading Jane Austen in two modes (leisurely vs close literary study). The two show quite different brain patterns suggesting that humanities gives the...
by Carl Howard | Oct 9, 2012 | Blog Topics, Society, Travel
“Do you believe in evolution?” This has to be one of the most annoying questions about evolution out there. To see why, have a look at this 1hr talk by Josh Roseneau about what Miss USA can teach us about evolution. For the meaty part, see below where he plays a...
by Carl Howard | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Language Log takes a look at the unsourced factlets that are often used when trying to show how the youngsters aren’t literate anymore, nobody reads and hey, the sky is falling too. How racial prejudice contributed to the foreclosure crisis in terms of which loans...
