Not too long ago in LA, crime was going up while the number of officers was going down. The LAPD had to try something different if they wanted to make a dent in this, so they looked to an anthropologist and mathematicians from UCLA, Santa Clara University, and UC Irvine. "PredPol," ...
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There's a swing in opinion happening. The current view of obesity is that it's an effect of overeating. Obese people are largely considered to be at fault for their condition -- if they'd only choose health over the pleasure of eating and sitting around, they'd cure themselves. I used to think ...
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I just bought a white board for to-do list purposes. Here is my to do list for tomorrow:
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Feynman said that there are no miracle people, and anyone can do what he did if they put their mind to it (my thoughts here). Yet there's one domain in which Feynman clearly had a natural gift in -- curiosity! This is exemplified by the little experiments he describes in ...
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Alan Wallace, a Buddhist and writer on consciousness and meditation, talks about what he sees as the dogmatism and idolatry of the current, materialistic scientific paradigm. While I have some questions about materialism that no one has been able to answer, I don't agree that the focus materialism is a ...
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If you're familiar with the research on the cognitive benefits of video games, you can probably skip this one. If not, here's a good way for you to spend the next 18 minutes, and maybe break a few preconceptions you might have about the usefulness of gaming. Daphne Bavelier talks ...
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In the video below, I present to you Darryl Anka, a self-help/sprituality guru who is pretty popular on YouTube and has a few products out. Many people actually believe that Anka is able to channel the spirit of a being called "Bashar" who lives in some other dimension, and that ...
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Dan Savage, aka the American Savage thinks monogamy is ridiculous. I agree to the extent that he's talking about the life-long, one-person, you're-the-one fantasy that those ultimate purveyors of the unattainable, Disney, are so fond of propagating. "'Till death do us part" is one of the most horrible ideas ever conceived. ...
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