The Certainty of Memory Has Its Day in Court. Yet scientists have long cautioned that the brain is not a filing cabinet, storing memories in a way that they can be pulled out, consulted and returned intact. is not so much a record of the past as a rough sketch that can be modified even by the simple act of telling the story.
For scientists, memory has been on trial for decades, and courts and public opinion are only now catching up with the verdict. It has come as little surprise to researchers that about 75 percent of DNA-based exonerations have come in cases where witnesses got it wrong. This month, the Supreme Court heard its first oral arguments in more than three decades that question the validity of using witness testimony, in a case involving a New Hampshire man convicted of theft, accused by a woman who saw him from a distance in the dead of night.
The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight. The Misconception: You celebrate diversity and respect others’ points of view.
The Truth: You are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others. The Ideology of No. Long before Barack Obama chose “Yes We Can” as his 2008 campaign slogan, Republicans had been dubbed the Party of No.
The label is popular among liberals as an insult for the GOP, but it’s also been embraced by conservatives as a proud self-description: for some on the right, the Party of No conjures the adults in the room saving future generations from an orgiastic spending spree, in the spirit of William F. Buckley’s proclamation that conservatism “stands athwart history, yelling Stop.” These conflicting views were on display in the recent debt ceiling negotiations, with liberals frustrated by Republican obstructions, and conservative Tea Party members seeing it as their duty to say No to another debt ceiling increase. Whether intended as a slur or a badge of honor, the Party of No label stems from specific policy preferences, mainly the conservative tendency to vote “no” on non-security domestic spending and tax proposals. Revealing the roots of a riot. Skip to content header debugging block Custom Search Menu content first June 7, 2021 U-M team examines liberal arts impact on students’ lives a decade after graduation ANN ARBOR—What is the impact of a liberal arts education on students’ lives?
Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics. We've been hearing for years from various propaganda outlets about the loss of our so-called rights.
Quite frankly, I'm sick of it. The truth is that government surveillance systems have done great work towards increasing the freedom of everyday God-fearing Americans. Michael Shermer » The Believing Brain. The Believing Brain Why science is the only way out of the trap of belief-dependent realism WAS PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BORN IN HAWAII?
Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com. Before John Lennon imagined "living life in peace," he conjured "no heaven … / no hell below us …/ and no religion too.
" No religion: What was Lennon summoning? Friday Illusion: Ball in glass mystery. Sandrine Ceurstemont, online video producer It's a simple set-up: a ball appears to be in a glass.
15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. Serpentine Gallery: Map MarathonSaturday and SundayOctober 16 & 17. The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) - Opinionator Blog. Existence is elsewhere. — André Breton, “The Surrealist Manifesto” 1.
The Juice David Dunning, a Cornell professor of social psychology, was perusing the 1996 World Almanac. In a section called Offbeat News Stories he found a tantalizingly brief account of a series of bank robberies committed in Pittsburgh the previous year. From there, it was an easy matter to track the case to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, specifically to an article by Michael A. Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files.
How facts backfire. It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one.
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1789. This notion, carried down through the years, underlies everything from humble political pamphlets to presidential debates to the very notion of a free press. Mankind may be crooked timber, as Kant put it, uniquely susceptible to ignorance and misinformation, but it’s an article of faith that knowledge is the best remedy.
Predicting learning and the illusion of knowledge « The Invisible Gorilla. By Daniel Simons, on August 3rd, 2010. Alchemy Is Back.
You Are Not So Smart. David Mitchell tackles the Subject of Consensus head on. Human Women. Last Night's TV: Faith Schools Menace?/More 4 - Reviews, TV & Radio. Sensory hijack: rewiring brains to see with sound - health - 17 August 2010. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3 Video: Seeing with sound. Choice Blindness. The problem with our sensory world – this “blooming, buzzing confusion” of sights, sounds and smells – is that we put so much faith in it. We believe that the world we experience the world as it is, and that our sensations are an accurate summary of reality.
But that’s a convenient illusion. In fact, it is the one illusion that makes every other perceptual illusion possible. The Myth of Scientific Literacy. Every now and again, the term "scientific literacy" gets wheeled out and I roll my eyes. This post is an attempt to explain why. The argument for greater scientific literacy is that to meaningfully participate, appreciate and even survive our modern lives, we all need certain knowledge and skills about science and technology. Blog: The Cult of Intranus (General) US Chamber: Equal Pay “a Fetish for Money,” Women Should “Choose the Right Partner at Home” Protest at the US Chamber of Commerce | Photo via SEIU/William Melton on Flickr The US Chamber of Commerce has apparently spent too much time watching Mad Men: in a blog post this morning, Chamber blogger Brad Peck called women’s fight for pay equity to be nothing more than a “fetish for money,” and said women complaining about their pay should focus instead on “choosing the right partner at home.”
The Chamber’s Peck also approvingly quoted a post that asked, “Should government force gym-man to share his beautiful babes with couch-potato man?” Smart, Qualified People Behind the Scenes Keeping America Safe: 'We Don't Exist' WASHINGTON—Members of the brilliant, highly trained, and dedicated team of elite professionals who work tirelessly behind the scenes to protect our nation and keep its citizens out of harm's way announced Tuesday that they do not exist.
"I know most Americans like to believe there are selfless, ultra-intelligent operatives like me out there watching over everything from an underground control room," said the Rhodes Scholar Navy SEAL national security official who for the past 10 years we have all mistakenly presumed to be an actual human being. "Unfortunately, though, I'm not employed by the U.S. government, I'm not working at all hours to foil terrorist plots, nor am I part of some secret network of sharp, capable agents, because no such network exists.
" "And again, neither do I," the imaginary man added. "Believe me, I wish I existed, too," the fake man added. Illusions of bodily awareness adapted for the pub : Neurophilosophy.