I’ve spent the last two days attending and presenting at the Heartland eLearning Conference. It’s a really great conference, with fantastic speakers (Michael Wesch, Lee Crocket, Alec Couros, Mark Milliron, and dozens more over the past couple of years) and I leave excited and inspired every year.
Tag critical thinking
I was interviewed this past week by Seth “The Thinking Atheist” Andrews, who was interested in talking about what psychology has to say about belief. Specifically, we talked about intelligence and religion, biases, babies, and the scientific method. Check out the videos below.
In short, the answer is yes. Recent research by computer scientists Kris Hauser and Casey Bennett at Indiana University has…
One thing that might surprise my readers on the coasts and elsewhere in the world is that, living in Oklahoma,…
Well, it’s January again here in Oklahoma (and everywhere else on Earth, I suppose). That means two things happening –…
I am a psychologist, a professor, a scientific skeptic, and a freethinker. So when I see a headline like this,…
Well, maybe not “legend” so much as “really cool documentary my student made,” but still…BEHOLD!!! (This is one in a…
(Actually, it’s more like Science 1 bazillion, Homeopathy 0, but I digress.) Excellent news out of Australia, where a father…
Really interesting article up on ESPN today, a site not known for it’s reporting on pseudoscience: Mark Cuban rips NBA…
In case you didn’t know, the irrepressible Jon Stewart debated the incredibly tall Bill O’Reilly yesterday in “The Rumble in…