Category intellect
False Memories of Eating Popcorn
I heard about this recent study (to be published in October 2011) over the weekend on an NPR game show and decided I had to see if it was for real. The study claims to have shown that sometimes certain kinds of advertising can actually make people believe they’ve tried the product that’s being advertised. […]
On Federalist 15
Had the pleasure of reading Federalist 15 (by Publius, or Alexander Hamilton, and originally published December 1, 1787) this evening. It got me to wondering: What would have happened had the Constitution never been ratified and the separate States never created a federal government with teeth in it (one subject of this essay). As the […]
Why Is There a Wall?
July 2009 Newsletter (link) Have you ever been in a conversation where you felt like you had good intellectual arguments for your beliefs, but the person you were talking to just wouldn’t listen? Did you feel like a wall had gone up that you couldn’t get past? I’ve felt that many times. My conversation with […]
Human Beings Matter More 