Author Archives: pbokulich

There’s a video making the rounds on social media by Richard Lindzen, who is an emeritus professor of meteorology. Many of the claims in the video are literally true, but they’re presented in a way that misrepresents the actual facts … Continue reading →

http://xkcd.com/1732/

Here’s proof: https://gifs.com/embed/KRQVdb

If there’s one thing you should take away from an introductory-level philosophy class, it is the insight that we are often blind to our own cognitive mistakes. From Socrates pointing out the importance of knowing what you don’t know, all … Continue reading →

This isn’t going to be full accounting of the Hockey Stick controversy. You can read the post at the American Institute of Phsyics or Wikipedia if you want more gory details, or Mann’s book if you want a first-hand account. … Continue reading →

Here’s a very nice animation that gives you a good sense of how much arctic sea ice we’ve lost in the past few decades. It’s useful because it makes it intuitively clear (in a way mere graphs often don’t) that … Continue reading →

I glanced at a news story about Iraq today, and what did I see? Dowsing rods! I’ve discussed before the fact that the Iraqi government has spent over $85 million for these dowsing rods that are supposed to detect bombs. … Continue reading →

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/07/14/ladybrains-evolved-in-the-pleistocene/ Tackling Pinker’s defense of evolutionary psychology http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388313/LSE-psychologist-Satoshi-Kanazawa-claims-black-women-attractive.html Click to access BJHP2006.pdf