My Dog Lefty Self-Identifies as a Beaver
2015-06-18 – My dog Lefty gnaws on trees. I am not kidding. In his youth he gnawed the bark off one tree in our backyard from the ground up to six […]
Tag Archives: psychology
Social Pressure: Churches and Gangs
2015-06-11 – It seems that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is being tagged with advice from his own book. Back in 1995 he wrote a chapter called “The Restoration of […]
Revenge Is Not Enough
2015-06-09 – The saga of the Duggar family and their wayward son comes at the intersection of at least two of my cultural blind spots. I don’t follow reality TV […]
The Turing Test
2015-05-21 – We all know about the Turing Test, don’t we? If you are not sure, let me tell you what it is. It is a test of a machine’s […]
If Politicians Are For We the People . . .
2015-05-17 – We’re not as dumb as we look! By “we,” I mean “We, the People.” Politicians, left and right, love to talk about We the People, from libertarians to […]
Science Can End Racism
2015-05-14 – Back in the Sixties I read a book called Black Like Me by a journalist by the name of John Howard Griffin. The book recounted the white author’s […]
No Trophies Just for Participating?
2015-05-03 – There’s an ecard floating around the Internet that goes like this: “I’m afraid of a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies […]
Religion Roulette
2015-04-28 – No one follows biblical law to the letter. Everyone picks and chooses. St. Paul rejected some or all of the law of the Torah (Old Testament), depending on […]
Can We Stem the Tide of STEM Already?
2015-04-23 – I am a science enthusiast. Although my career did not go in that direction, my science education went further than most. I was a physics major through my […]
Are Dogs As Smart as a Two-Year Old? (And Is That a Good Thing?)
2015-04-19 – While half the world believes the other half isn’t intelligent enough to be considered human, scientists are busy finding that all sorts of nonhuman critters have human-level intelligence. […]
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