Stranger Danger
Have you ever sat into a stranger’s car by accident? I’ve done it lots of times. I spent…
Category: Learning
A Smurfette with Principles?
In film and media, a trope is a common pattern in a story or a recognizable attribute in…
Suffering…what is it good for?
Evil causes suffering and evil is preventable, but even in a paradisiacal world without evil, suffering would still exist.…
Chaotic Butterflies
In ordinary life chaos means disorder – random, disorganised confusion. In science it means something entirely different –…
What Everybody Needs to Know About Thinking for Yourself
Thinking for yourself is not about following every whimsical notion and desire and doing just as you please.…
Why We All Need Science and Religion to Work Together (even if we think we don’t)
Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself…
Human Nature – A Conceptual Framework – IV
Psychologist Robert Rosenthal attributes the Pygmalion Effect (where we perform according to what is expected of us rather than…
The Laughter of the Gods
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (1) Knowledge…
Gate-Keepers of Knowledge Redundant?
Image via Wikipedia Knowledge is made from information. In the past, information was held in scrolls and tablets…