Tag Archives: science
Day 18
I wrote 3000 words today. Slightly patchy words, but I’m so chuffed with myself I’m going to inflict a whole chunk of it on you. Once upon a time there was a man who lived on an iceberg. Hunger and … Continue reading
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So, HOT or NOT?
(The tale of hotornot began with psychopathology, continued onto the (possible) virtues of delusions, and culminated in some rather hard-to-interpret results. As an aside, I do like the effect the humble comma can have on the meaning of sentences.) Interpretation … Continue reading
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Method, Madness & Results
Method Participants According to hotornot, approximately millions of internet users (or “hotties”) were potential participants in the present experiment. However, due to time constraints and high attrition rates, only 86 participants (mostly male) completed the study, plus the main participant, … Continue reading
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Delusions of…
(or, HOT or NOT? part 2. Here’s part 1.) There we were, in Intro to Psychopathology last Thursday. After our lecturer had explained Beck’s cognitive model, one of the Matts in my class (there’s three of them) asked a question … Continue reading
Boink?
I’ve learned a lot this semester. This temporary (and illusory) lull in work-and-stress-levels seemed as good a time as any to try to summarize – not so much on this blog (trust me, you’d get bored), but in my head … Continue reading
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Donating My Body to… Science?
I have a card in my wallet that shows I am registered as an organ donor. Not that I can imagine anyone wanting my asthmatic lungs, tortured liver, myopic eyes or overworked brain, but still. It might be better than … Continue reading
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Right. Wrong.
Right. TED. Sam Harris. This video. The main thing I have to say is “I agree.” But that doesn’t make for a very interesting blog post. So instead, here are some areas of Sam Harris’ “science can answer moral questions”-talk which I … Continue reading
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Never Believe Anyone Who Says “Believe Me!”
This may be stretching your memories a bit, but remember this? It’s a topic I have thought about quite regularly since, and so in honour of the Atheist Convention (on in Melbourne last weekend, though I was safely tucked away in … Continue reading
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