The Threads of Bad Science
How do you extract bad science from your head?
During one of my previous jobs, I had to pore over
Learning is Path Dependent
Prior to the summer of 2022, my son had no interest in rockets. Trains? Yes. Fire trucks? Yes. Planes? Hell
When Information Sours Decision-Making
I began playing poker in the early aughts. No-limit-holdem was skyrocketing to popularity, online casinos were offering absurd bonuses to
Why Won't Science Tell Me The Answer?
Science is often portrayed as an activity that provides answers. And so it does.
To get to the moon, you
Lessons from The Mozart Effect
Can listening to Mozart make your kid more intelligent?
The Mozart Effect wasn't the original quirky psychology finding.
Government by Crisis
In 1038, a young leader from "The Great State of White and High" (AKA Xi Xia) decided to
The Best Book No One Has Read
It's bad when academics don't even read your book.
Alistair Crombie's magnum opus, "
How Science is Undone
Clifford Burdick (1894-1992) spent his life trying to disprove modern evolutionary and geological theory. He was a creationist. And one
Intelligence is not a personality trait
Ten years ago, few people thought that Elon Musk was an idiot. Yes, perceptive observers could probably tell that there
Church and State Debate
Lots of factors contribute to productive arguments. But they can't happen at all if the arguers don'