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How To Be Wrong: Changing Our Minds, Pt 2
In my last post, I discussed the stories of two people, Alan Chambers and Patty Wetterling, who did one of the hardest things a person can do: They changed their minds on issues they cared very deeply...
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A Tale of Two Juries: Why We All Trust Science
By Julien Musolino Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University Francis Bacon, one of the fathers of the scientific revolution, warned us in the early 17th century that without the methods and...
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The Heart & Mind Behind a Revolution: Book Review of “Boltzmann’s Atom”
I have a habit of wandering around public libraries until a book catches my eye. I do this frequently enough that if you were to plot the book titles I happen upon against my enjoyment of them, you’d...
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The Soul Fallacy: An Interview w Psychology Prof Julien Musolino
It’s not everyday you get to meet someone like Rutgers professor Julien Musolino. In our age of specialization, Julien is part of a small (but growing!) cadre of thinkers whose interests aren’t bound...
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Humans Are Weird, & Other Lessons From Animal Behavior: Interview w Dr....
Two weeks ago was the Yale Humanist Community’s first ever Humanist Haven, a monthly nonreligious community gathering. The first speaker at the first meeting was Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor of...
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The Importance of Hard Science Fiction
For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars,...
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Did Interstellar Live Up to its Hard Sci-Fi Hype? Review of Nolan’s Space Opera
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE INTERSTELLAR. I just got back from watching Christopher Nolan’s new movie Interstellar in glorious, eye-popping IMAX. I’m really torn right now. I’ve written...
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Tending to the Demise: Book Review of ‘Being Mortal’
In America, and indeed worldwide, death is an abstract that lingers at the periphery of waking life until its reality comes crashing down. Though many of us see depictions of death and dying in film...
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On Mathematical Intelligence and How It Grows
TL;DR: There is no Royal Road. In his three recent and awesome posts on intelligence, Scott Alexander describes what it’s like to grow up intellectually lopsided (high verbal IQ and a low-ish math IQ,...
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How Correlation Does and Doesn’t Imply Causation
In my last article I discussed the popular rule “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence,” often associated with the argument from ignorance. However, this popular mantra, and almost every...
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When We Shouldn’t – And Should – Argue from Authority
I love taking common platitude’s from rationality and pointing out the exceptions. Why? Because I hate when a short catchy maxim is used incorrectly to belittle others’ rational arguments. The irony...
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Lifeguard Lollygagging Pt 1: The Brain as Mind
I’ve been working as a lifeguard every summer for the last five summers. It gives me a lot of idle time to think about things. It also gives the sun a lot of time to roast my brain, which makes it hard...
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Innovative Technology Will Enhance Ghana’s Agriculture
By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer It is lovely seeing seven different people from different social, racial, and geographical backgrounds working collectively for a common purpose....
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