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Dear introverts: It’s a people-infused world out there and, sometimes you gotta find ways to skip the small talk, ditch the networking event and get a little restorative you time. Here, eight things to do to stay sane on the … Continue reading →

Shuffling Cards Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards, it’s likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that is unique in human history. For example, I shuffled a deck of cards this afternoon, and … Continue reading →

Dunning Kruger Effect The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Incompetent people cannot recognize just how incompetent they are, a … Continue reading →

If it were true that when belief in God weakens, societal well-being diminishes, then we should see abundant evidence for this. But we don’t. In fact, we find just the opposite: Those societies today that are the most religious — … Continue reading →

Michael Shermer uses the “rustle in the grass” thought experiment to explain patternicity, Type 1 errors, and evolutionary survival strategies Go back in time, a few million years: You hear a rustle in the grass. Is it a dangerous predator … Continue reading →

If i had to assemble a team to assess and best handle some “situation”, Hitchens would be in the top 5.  He is best known for being one of the horsemen of neo-atheists.  Sam Harris being the other one. I … Continue reading →