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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part I

Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga On the evening of October 10th 1769, in one of his typically curt dismissals of…

Culture Philosophy

The Selfish Genes Of Dennett’s Atheists

If you're not busy this December 2nd and 3rd, and happen to be in the Buffalo area, you might drop in on the Center for Inquiry's symposium "Daniel Dennett and…

Philosophy Statistics

Ten Politically Incorrect So-Called Truths About Human Nature: 6 – 10

See 1 - 5 here. 6. Beautiful people have more daughters And are thus more likely to divorce? And thus less likely to have fewer kids than the ugly people…

Statistics

Differences In Brains Between Believers And Atheists?

The following question was posed at the (inaptly named) magazine Scientific American, "Is there a difference between the brain of an atheist and the brain of a religious person?" It…

Culture

Harvard Classes: Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball

Yesterday, we pointed out that Cornell has some odd courses on its books, subjects which are not consonant with typical expectations of a classical education. So, in the interest of…

Culture Philosophy

You Too Can Be A Genius After 10,000 Hours

No, you cannot. That title is a lie, and, judging by a recent spate of books on the subject, a popular one. Ann Hulbert of Slate has compiled a list…

Philosophy

Is Feminist Epistemology Different Than Male Epistemology?

Euclid gave us a gloriously simple proof that there are an infinite number of primes. A prime number, of course, is a positive number that can be evenly divided only…

Statistics

The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite

Everybody says the "gold standard" of experimentation, and especially clinical trials, is the randomized controlled trial. A typical view is that "A Randomized Controlled Trial is an experiment or study…

Briggs on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
gareth, If n = whatever, and k = 0,1,2,..., n. Then n - k = 0 at the end. And…
gareth on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
16:43: "0!=1" - eh? n!=n*n-1... if n=0 then n!=0 Please explain or point to links that do :-) Comment: agree…
NLR on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
The thing that gets me about these rationalists is that they seem to think it's still 1998. All the Internet…
Rudolph Harrier on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
It was discussion of voting models that made it easy for me to believe your assertion that there are no…
Paul Murphy on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
and the #1 reason to dislike prediction markets is... they can be used like push polls to manipulate opinion -…