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Is Weak Evidence Better Than No Evidence?
NPR: In my post last week, I wrote that “weak evidence is still better than no evidence.” The statement prompted some thoughtful comments from readers: I find that weak evidence is often worse than no evidence. (Chris
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Time to Put Humor Under the Microscope
The Huffington Post: According to Dennett, humor evolved as a way for the mind to incentivize the discovery of mistaken leaps to conclusion — or as he puts in his talk, it’s “A neural system
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Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict
Los Angeles Times: While social commentators have long suggested that extreme heat can unleash the beast in man, formal study of the so-called heat hypothesis — the theory that high temperatures fuel aggressive and violent
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Heat Wave Psychology: Long Past, Green Future?
The Huffington Post: I live in Maryland, where we have been suffering through an unrelenting heat wave all summer, and I confess I have cranked up the AC on the worst days. But I always
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Heat wave psychology: Long past, greener future?
I live in Maryland, where we have been suffering through an unrelenting heat wave all summer, and I confess I have cranked up the AC on the worst days. But I always feel guilty about
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When Good Pictures Happen to Bad People: Why We Hate That We Like The Rolling Stone Cover
TIME: His dark eyes stare straight at the lens, his hair tousled so it falls just-so to one side, just as any teen idol or rock star would want to debut on a national magazine