On Banapana I wrote...
Our cognitive skills are sometimes more a product of our culture than of nature, and that cultural aspect can lead to some funny thinking in our “common sense” and what we think we know about the world. Counting,…
October 3 2011, 4:22pm
On Banapana I wrote...
If people can predict the future over the scale of very short time periods, should we be surprised. After all, many musicophiles are quite able to name a song after hearing just the first one to three notes…
November 17 2010, 2:07pm
On Banapana I wrote...
I can’t say that I’m at all shocked by the fact that Hollywood is a male-driven industry or that the content of the movies they make are male-dominated, but I thought that more progress than this had been…
May 27 2010, 3:35pm
On Banapana I wrote...
In a small but valiant effort to get the Skeptic’s Dictionary higher up in the PageRank system (at Google) I am linking to their entry on Deepak Chopra today. Consider the following statement: “Quantum healing is healing the…
April 21 2010, 1:56pm
On Banapana I wrote...
[UPDATE: Apparently, I'm clearly not the only one with a problem with Glenn Beck. A petition making the rounds has caused multiple advertisers to stop their support of Glenn Beck's show. If his rhetoric and fear-mongering bothers you,…
August 10 2009, 8:53pm