Just a few reasons why the late-night television “quiz show” by PlayTV Canada is a blatant scam.
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PlayTV Canada is a Scam
Posted in media, misc, psychology, real life on November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Normal Activity
Posted in general science, horror, philosophy, psychology, real life, tagged ghosts, halloween, parapsychology on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Halloween time, so as one would expect, many ghostly happenings have been … happening.
A few nights ago I had a lovely date night with myself. I got some snacks and some wine, turned off all the lights except for a single candle, and sat down to watch a scary movie. I’d never seen The [...]
Book Review: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Posted in book reviews, horror, philosophy, psychology, tagged mormonism, religion on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Review of the book Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer.
Reaction to Accusations of Police Brutality at the University of Western Ontario
Posted in philosophy, psychology, real life on October 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
On October 14th, police took down a dangerous man at UWO. Here is my reaction to it.
The Emotion of WTF
Posted in media, philosophy, psychology, tagged baby on a tank, hitler, wtf on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WTF isn’t just shorthand; it’s a feeling with no other word to describe it.
The Mathematics of Wrong Numbers
Posted in psychology, technology on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What the hell is with wrong numbers? Who’s dialing them?
It’s Almost Like ESP, Day 2
Posted in general science, psychology, tagged parapsychology, remote viewing, richard wiseman, twitter on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Wiseman’s Twitter remote viewing experiment, part 2.
It’s Almost Like ESP
Posted in general science, psychology, technology, tagged esp, parapsychology, psi, psychology, remote viewing, richard wiseman, twitter on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A look at Richard Wiseman’s experiment using Twitter to test remote viewing.
Statistics
Posted in general science, psychology on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(from xkcd)
The Death of Long Term Memory
Posted in psychology, technology on January 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This fascinating article at Scientific American, about human and animal consciousness, contains the following passage:
In humans, the short-term storage of symbolic information—as when you enter an acquaintance’s phone number into your iPhone’s memory—is associated with conscious processing.
A few years ago, when I was first learning about memory, the example probably would have gone more like [...]
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