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I don't consciously seek out the Huffington Post, but two stories on Google News that caught my eye recently happened to be from there. I know how you love that site , Hank. Today's find is on the democratization of science, or the fall of experts from ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - May 11 2010 - 11:46am - 0 attachments

Superstition may work if you think it works.   If only voodoo were so easy, ... for Psychological Science What happens when your superstition clashes with someone else's?  Will Michael Jordan's college team ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2010 - 5:52pm - 0 attachments

... he says. Anxious uncertainty had no effect on either superstition or religious submission. Findings published last year in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2010 - 1:29pm - 0 attachments

... without war, while Anderson’s target is ignorance and superstition) and some extremely stilted dialogue, like this gem from Star ... Why do we tend to hate outsiders in the first place? Does superstition only thrive when we fear technology, or can people who profess ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 26 2010 - 10:48am - 0 attachments

... suspect all of this explains why Americans level of superstition and religion is so much higher than it is in any other developed ...

Blog Post - Bakari Kafele - Jun 2 2010 - 4:00pm - 0 attachments

"Airplanes do not "fly"! They are held aloft through the divine intervention of heavenly angels!" "I'll notify the Texas Board of Education at once!" I wonder whether such dark levity is the last refuge of an intelligence that has seen the future, and ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Apr 10 2010 - 7:16am - 0 attachments

... below the earth’s equator. Beyond that line scholars and superstition said you might fall off the planet’s face. Or, if you were more ...

Article - Howard Bloom - May 27 2008 - 11:18pm - 0 attachments

... always had to fight with hindrances such as religion, superstition, or other factors that stopped fundamental research or strongly ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 19 2010 - 4:54am - 0 attachments

... research addressing its psychology. A paper in Science ( Superstition, Ritual And Conspiracies - Why We Sometimes See What We Want To ... is a correlation between unpredictability of events and superstition: for instance, people have studied tribes of fishermen fishing at ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Oct 7 2008 - 10:16am - 0 attachments

... Toynbee has written a great article titled Quackery and superstition - available soon on the NHS "A sharp line has ...

Blog Post - Ben Morrish - Oct 3 2009 - 7:27am - 0 attachments