I once got slightly intoxicated while “studying” the night before a major exam in statistics. Normally this would not be something to be proud of, but the fact is, despite the morning headache, my mind was clear of distractions and all that wonderful statistical knowledge flowed onto the paper just as smoothly as the [...]
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Beer : Statistics :: Peas : Carrots
Posted in general science, psychology, real life, tagged beer, psychology, statistics on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Get Smart
Posted in general science, psychology on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wired Magazine has just put up a set of articles on the topic of intelligence: Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower.
It’s partly just a movie promotion (for the Steve Carell remake of Get Smart. Get it?), and a lot of it is oversimplified or just plain wrong, but there [...]
Book Review: Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk
Posted in book reviews, media, tagged chuck palahniuk, haunted, horror on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Chuck Palahniuk’s world, nothing is what it seems. Something sinister lurks behind the scenes of everything ordinary. Homelessness, feng shui, those dolls you practice CPR on, talk shows; they’re not what they seem to be. It’s an interesting place to visit, but you wouldn’t wanna live there. That’s what makes [...]
Donate Your Useless HBC Rewards Points to The Humane Society
Posted in misc, real life on April 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Willow is over today, which got me thinking about how to do nice stuff for dogs, so I went over to The London Humane Society’s web site and discovered something awesome.
You can donate to The London Human Society with HBC Rewards points. To any individual person, these things are useless anyway. I’ve [...]
Publish and Perish
Posted in general science, psychology, real life, technology on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not to not brag or nothin’, but you are now a friend/acquaintance/worshiper of a published scientific researcher. My first publication finally popped up on the internet recently (even though it was apparently published in 2007, the journal seems to be running behind or something).
Here is the full reference:
Sorrentino, R. M., Seligman, C., [...]
A Skeptical Look at Yogurt
Posted in general science on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hate yogurt commercials. I’m not a big fan of yogurt itself either, aside from it being one of the funniest-sounding words in the English language. Yet, the other day, I went to pick up some groceries, I was really hungry, I wanted something healthy, and I was in a hurry, so some [...]
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