February 16, 2014 Social Science
In 1971, a team of psychology researchers led by Philip Zimbardo studying how people respond to authority conducted what has become known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. This book is Zimbardo’s account of and reflections on that experiment almost forty…
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What can we say about people who lived 50,000 years ago? Much more than just years ago, thanks to the growing body of knowledge from the collection and modern-day testing of DNA (or deoxyribonucleic acid, the encoded genetic instructions found…
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February 16, 2014 Social Science
The Archaeology of Lake Baikal: Lake Baikal located in Siberia, is about 636 km long, 80 km wide and at 1,620 meters, nearly a mile deep, is the world’s deepest lake. Compared to the other great lakes of the world,…
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February 16, 2014 Social Science
“Those who speak, do not know. Those who know, do not speak.” This Zen proverb points to the paradox of leadership: Efficient leaders are those who don’t really seem to be doing anything at all. If efficient means using resources…
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February 16, 2014 Physical Science
Science and science fiction have many areas that overlap. One of these areas is the significance of black holes. These unique areas of space have fascinated astronomers, science fiction writers and general individuals ever since their existence was first detected….
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February 16, 2014 Social Science
Mind maps, in the classical sense of webbing, drive me nuts. By the time I get the spokes constructed with all the important points, I can’t figure out what is important or where to start. For years I used lists…
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February 16, 2014 Medical Science
I am assuming that the intelligence we are talking about is the type that leads to 11 A*s at GCSE and a first class honours degree from Oxford university? If that is the case, then this type of intelligence is…
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February 16, 2014 Earth Science
Global warming is widely understood by scientists, and to a lesser extent by non-scientists, as posing serious risks for future humanity. As humans are land dwellers, it is perhaps understandable that more alarm has been generated by the projected negative…
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It would not be at all unusual for an individual to believe that there exist only two kinds of meaningful propositions. First, there are those propositions (or assertions) that are demonstrably true or false. An example of one of these…
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February 16, 2014 Social Science
Because of his potent arguments that seek to dismantle the notion of “mental illness”, the maverick Hungarian born US psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz, has quite often and quite mistakenly been associated with the aims and philosophy of the 60’s anti-psychiatry movement…
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