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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Charity
And you can too! All you have to do is win this gorilla costume. This is guaranteed to work in a women's locker room*. I can't vouch for its success rate in men's locker rooms since.. well... I don't really have to sneak in there. Anyway, all you have to...
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Category: Humor
This counts as science right? -link-...
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Category: Academia
Just in case you're looking for something to write on your course evaluations. Or perhaps you are the instructor and you hope you don't get something like this (especially if you are young!) Via Texts From Last Night: I had to do a class evaluation today & the girl beside...
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Category: Academia
-via toothpaste for dinner-...
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Category: Academia
Just be warned - there's a teensy (tinsy, teensie?) weensy bit of crude language. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor....
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Category: Humor
I now believe. -Via Surviving the World- (I really wish I could have just presented the first image and sent you there for the rest - but I'm too lazy to do image editing...)...
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Category: Psychology
Enjoy this article. It's some thrilling reading! Brilliant! -via... well I'm not really sure what this is-...
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Category: Psychology
I don't usually post anything about "that kind" of psychology but I loved these: (via Dangerous Minds & their creator - Matthew Wilkinson)...
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Category: Language
Straight from Neatorama: A research team at Hebrew University in Israel has developed a computer program that can recognize sarcasm with about 77% accuracy: To create such an algorithm, the team scanned 66,000 Amazon.com product reviews, with three different human annotators tagging sentences for sarcasm. The team then identified certain...
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Category: Books
I'm sure by now you've heard about inattentional blindness, as I've posted about it a million times since this blog began. It's an amazing effect! It shows us that we really aren't as aware of the world as we think we are. If you haven't heard about it by now...
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casaubon's book 02.13.2012
denialism blog 02.13.2012
respectful insolence 02.13.2012
evolutionblog 02.12.2012
starts with a bang! 02.11.2012
