Category: Science
Teaching Philosophy is a Great Idea
Recently the TED Blog highlighted a study noted by the British Psychological Society. The study taught 105 children for 16 months at 1 hour a week philosophical inquiry. The results of the study showed: “Compared with 72 control children, the philosophy children showed significant improvements on tests of their verbal, numerical and spatial abilities”. Perhaps […]
Government Regulations: Do They Help or Hurt?
Cosmic Variance is a blog that discusses mostly physics related news and advances, noted an interesting study this morning. The study (PDF) examined the number of patents granted for sulfur-dioxide control technologies per year, noting at the points when major air control legislation listed. The graph can be quickly summed up by saying that before […]
Stereotypes: Will they ever go away?
An idea that has been discussed on and off again in my history class (History of Women in America) is what would happen if some how every living person on the face of the earth did not have any stereotypes about any other person. No racial, no religious, no gender and sexual, no stereotypes of […]
British to study 500,000
Ok, so I know this is kinda old news but I just hadn’t gotten around to blogging about it and I kept putting it off. Tonight we get discuss, ladies and gentlemen, the largest scientific study every undertaken or even thought up of. This is the study to end all studies, at least that is […]
Beef Jerky Reports
This series of post is drawing to a close, this will be the final post. This third post, in the series discussing the recent decision by the International Astronautical Union to rewrite the definition of what is and isn’t a planet. In how this decision is not going to be understood nor will it be […]
How to be a better chess player
This is the second post in a multiple post series. Yesterday, I discussed how the news media is missing an important part of the discussion with the International Astronautical Union or the IAU, on the new system of naming what is and is not a planet. My general idea was that there is a vast […]
Pluto – What is it, and what about the other stuff in the solar system?
This is going to multiple part post, the first section is going to discuss something that I feel the news media is missing from the Pluto story. Pluto is it a planet or not? Have school kids been debating this idea? Nope, it has been scientists and engineers who have been spending time and energy […]