- ‘A legal bid to challenge the power of the police to use surveillance against peaceful protesters has been launched at the High Court. ‘ (update: failed)
- It’s like waking from a dream, or a light going on, or a giant “YOU ARE HERE” sign appearing in the sky. The mere fact that I’m actually real and actually breathing…leaves me giddy. It causes a brief surge of clammy, bubbling anxiety, like the opening stages of a panic attack.’
- xkcd: nihilism
- When philosophers go on strike
- kevingillan.info Kevin Gillan’s website
- Raynald’s SPSS Tools
- Anonymous is an anti-scientology thing
- ‘Statistical rituals largely eliminate statistical thinking in the social sciences. Rituals are indispensable for identification with social groups, but they should be the subject rather than the procedure of science.’
- ‘According to Dr Nick Neave, an evolutionary psychologist from Northumbria University, not only do [women] need men, they are fundamentally programmed to depend on them.’
- Nalgene water bottles removed from sale due to carcinogen fears
- ‘the most telling picture about the U.S. political economy I have ever seen’
- Ratemyprofessors.com — professors strike back
- Hassabis, et al. (2007). Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences. PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0610561104
- YouTube aikido vs kicks
- Dore Dyslexia ‘miracle cure’ story update bad science and mindhacks.com (make sure you read the comments)
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