My field of psychology focuses a lot on “intelligence”. I personally don’t believe there is a proper definition for intelligence, nor a test for it. I’m not talking about a spiritual cosmic hippy explanation where “everyone is intelligent and beautiful,…
With 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, you would really be hoping to that there is more to life than cat videos! Well if that is what you are hoping, then you have some seriously good luck because if…
Every week we ask a question of our readers, to stimulate discussion and critical thinking about an issue or topic relating to science, skepticism, technology or religion. Our favourite points are discussed on our weekly podcast, The Pseudoscientists. Sometimes science is…
The Secular Student Alliance is a great organisation in the US dedicated to help further skepticism and secularism on college campuses all across the US, and they’re currently in the middle of “Secular Student Alliance Week”, to help celebrate secular…
Okay, now shut your eyes (well not really, because you need them to read) and imagine this following scenario. You’re cruising around on Facebook during your lunch break and your friend shares something from a Facebook page called “Burzynski, The…
‘A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.‘ – Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water It is well established that us Homo sapiens like to seek out information that supports our beliefs, interpret any ambiguity as a confirmation…
So there’s this school. And there’s this lunchtime club at this school. And there’s a teacher who runs this club, whose lifetime validation comes from a bunch of rotten, juice-excreting, soft and squishy teenagers. It’s only recently come to my…
There were over twelve million views per hour of the English language Wikipedia website during December 2012. Wikipedia is the sixth most visited site on the web and often the first result for most search queries (as high as 99%…
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