by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading, Science
Another new one to add to the list of books for psychologists. The argumentative theory argues (of course) that we developed reasoning to help us evaluate other people’s arguments and to try to convince them of ours. Not for searching after the truth, which...
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading, Science
The books and journal articles all psychologists should read has a lot of interesting sounding reads. I particularly like it when people say: “I read the original and realised I’d been misquoting / mis-referencing it for years”.
by Tom | Mar 17, 2011 | Reading, Science
It’s worth noting a few things from Bad Science that I’m catching up on: Sniffer dogs react to their handlers, not their unerring instinct to find drugs. I guess the experiment needs to be done with drugs rather than sausages, but the principle seems...
by Tom | Dec 2, 2010 | Science
Let’s hope this evening’s Nasa press conference really does announce a form of bacterial life that uses arsenic. Science bit: oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus are six necessary characteristics of all previously-known living...
by Tom | Dec 1, 2010 | Personal, Science
Anticrepuscular rays. Now I know what fingers of god are called. Huzzah. I’m not sure what backwards fingers of god would be called, but they are super funky.
by Tom | Nov 17, 2010 | Personal, Science
John Snow’s pump. Great story of medical research proving that cholera was waterborne, great infographic, good pub, too. I’d never connected them all, despite often seeming to go to Broadwick Street weekly.
