Critical Thinking Online Course - iversity.org. Course Summary This MOOC is an introduction in Critical Thinking, with an emphasis on using reason in our daily communication.
Its main topics cover the structure and analysis of arguments, the study of inductive reasoning as basis for scientific knowledge and as key ingredient in how we understand reality. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ In the autumn of 2013 I was in my first term of school in a decade.
I had two jobs; my husband, Tom, was working full-time; and we were raising our two small girls. It was the first time in years that we felt like maybe things were looking like they’d be OK for a while. After a gruelling shift at work, I was unwinding online when I saw a question from someone on a forum I frequented: Why do poor people do things that seem so self-destructive? I thought I could at least explain what I’d seen and how I’d reacted to the pressures of being poor. I wrote my answer to the question, hit post, and didn’t think more about it for at least a few days. Why Believing in Free Will is Good for You. “We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses–one foot is on the horse called “fate,” the other o the horse called “free will.”
And the question you have to ask every day is–which horse is which? Which horses do I need to stop worrying because it’s not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?” The Largest Vocabulary in Hip hop. 15 Tech Innovations That Will Change the Way You Travel.
Scientists Have Found That Memories Can Be Passed Down Through Generations In Our Genes. New research from Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, has shown that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA.
During the tests they learned that that mice can pass on learned information about traumatic or stressful experiences – in this case a fear of the smell of cherry blossom – to subsequent generations. According to the Telegraph, Dr Brian Dias, from the department of psychiatry at Emory University, said: ”From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations.
“Such a phenomenon may contribute to the etiology and potential intergenerational transmission of risk for neuropsychiatric disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.” Memories Can Be Passed Down Through DNA. Cuppa & a chat with… Tracey Webster. Facebook Knows When You're About to Update Your Relationship Status. Facebook released new findings on Friday — Valentine's Day — that hints when two people are about to change their status to "in a relationship.
" In the three months (or about 100 days) before a couple updates their status to make their relationship Facebook official, the social network sees a steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the two. In fact, posting to each other's pages will peak (1.67 posts) at 12 days before the relationships begin and when the update is officially made ("day 0") posts typically start to decline. Facebook only looked at couples who declared an anniversary date — and not just changed their relationship status — between April 11, 2010 and Oct. 21, 2013, and remained "single" 100 days before and "in a relationship" 100 days after that date.
The findings are a part of a larger six-part series that looks at love. Less interaction isn't a bad thing, and posts shared tend to get sweeter and more positive following a relationship status update. The Online Destination for Generation Y. Welcome to the Community Exchange System. Best Alzheimer's Blogs from 2013. A Formula for Happiness. The Gift of Death. Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.
BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, Ethical consumerism. Blood in the Mobile. LSD & Its Usage in Human Life and Evolution. The funny part about LSD is that Albert Hofmann, the scientist who discovered it, claims that LSD discovered him.
Although post the discovery of LSD, with the mass usage of LSD in the psychedelic sixties he started to believe it was actually a problem, what he called his “problem child.” But years later his problem child turned into a wonder drug and in his own words. The worry that is Wonga. Wonga.
It’s a word that arrived on the South Africa media printscape in the wake of the abortive Simon Mann coup planned for Equatorial Guinea in 2004. Wonga — cash — was what former British premier Margaret Thatcher’s arms dealing son, Mark, stumped up to help finance the coup, an act that resulted in him leaving South Africa, guaranteeing never to return. Santa and the 'Shrooms: The Real Story Behind the "Design" of Santa. Most people think of Santa Claus and the cheery red and white we decorate with at Christmas as little more than lighthearted fun and pretty colors.
But the real story behind that Christmas look that takes over the Western world at this time of year is a bit… shall we say, darker. A long walk to Nkandla. Watch A Teacher Make Her 3rd-Grade Kids Hate Each Other For The Best Reason Imaginable. American Psychosis. The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions.
Why The Religion Of 'Positive Thinking' Needs To Be Burned At The Stake. The Cyber-intelligence Complex. Originally published at The Daily Dot. Given the National Security Agency surveillance revelations of the last few months, we need to pay even more attention to the private companies who are working hand-in-hand with the state to carry this mass surveillance out. In fact, someone’s already done a lot of that work for us—an American journalist who has been in jail for over a year: Barrett Brown. In a statement released September 16th, WikiLeaks states that Brown is “being persecuted for critical reporting on the growing surveillance state” and that his prosecution “chills investigative reporting of national security issues and provides cover for the unholy alliance between government agencies and the security industry.”
Old Finnish People With Things On Their Heads. Almost a year ago I discovered this photo series at Kiasma – The Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, Finland. Photographers, Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen came up with something truly peculiar and special, in their photo series Eyes As Big As Plates. Their subjects are old, super serious and Finnish, all while wearing ridiculous “organic” head pieces and attire…need I say more? Images via VisualNews and Riitta Ikonen.
Loneliness Illustrated So Beautifully You Will Need To Tell Someone. » What WikiLeaks revealed Bradley Manning Support Network. By the PVT Manning Support Network. August 16, 2011 Download PDF version of article here. » What WikiLeaks revealed Bradley Manning Support Network.