- Wikipedia: Speed Reading – read the ‘Scholarly research’ section.
- Google Video: Threads (nuclear armageddon in 1980s Sheffield)
- Steven Poole’s obitary of Jean Baudrillard
- The Challenge to Democracy of Climate Change (Open Democracy article by Dougald Hine)
- The Bogdanov Affair (a reverse Sokal affair?)
- ‘contrary to all expectations, the neural organization of sign language has more in common with that of spoken language than it does with the brain organization for visual-spatial procesing.’ (Scientific American article)
- using negative reinforcement to reduce nailbiting (conscious action retrains automatic action)
- greatfirewallofchina.org Test any website and see real time if it’s censored in china (idiolect.org.uk is)
- Kissing Hank’s Ass
- Anomalous suspence in response to narrative (ie when you know what’s going to happen).
- YouTube Roy Zimmerman’s “Creation Science 101”
- them’s fightin’ words: the sociology of scientific scuffles
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