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Talking While Female: 6 Things About The Perception Of Women's Voices

Talking While Female: 6 Things About The Perception Of Women's Voices

Oct 29 2014 | comment(s)

You may not have realized it, but women's voices are a big topic. For women, at least. 

I suppose it may be true. If someone asks me to describe the characters in television comedy "The Big Bang Theory", my natural response would be 'the guy that matches the stereotype of how people think physicists are, the actual physicist, the engineer, the psychologist, the girl who looked a lot better with longer hair and the girl with the squeaky voice.'

See? 16% of my responses were related to female voice. She did better than the Indian guy, I forgot him completely, but whatever her science degree is was completely left out, the voice sticks out.
Preventing Murder: 3 Ways To Predict Who Will Become A Killer

Preventing Murder: 3 Ways To Predict Who Will Become A Killer

Oct 24 2014 | comment(s)


Right now, the police can't do much to help you until after a crime has been committed. In a science-fiction tale about free will and psychological determinism, Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" detailed a world where PreCrime officers stop acts before they happen. They know who is going to do it.

But psychic mutants are a simplistic convention, criminologists have instead been trying to do it in the real world.

Cheers To Psychology: Why A Failure To Replicate Is Good News For The Field

Cheers To Psychology: Why A Failure To Replicate Is Good News For The Field

Oct 23 2014 | comment(s)

Psychology has endured a lot of black eyes in recent years. Numerous papers have used arbitrary interpretations of brain scans, surveys of college students and unreal levels of social priming, implicit association and motivated reasoning. It has become woo central, embracing everything from the idea that voting Republican is an adaptive function to claims that people can predict the future
The Science Of Voodoo Dolls - Coburn's Annual Wastebook Released

The Science Of Voodoo Dolls - Coburn's Annual Wastebook Released

Oct 23 2014 | comment(s)

Voodoo Dolls, Gambling Monkeys and Zombies in Love sounds like a 1980s B-movie title, along the lines of "Chopper Chicks In Zombie Town", but it's actually part of the latest Wastebook from Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK).

If you didn't know that NASA built a $350 million launch pad tower even after the the rockets it was designed to test were scrapped, well, Coburn is here to help. They also spent $390,000 on a cartoon about global warming and $3,000,000 to try and figure out how Congress works.

Those and 97 other funny or outrageous bits of spending waste are documented.
I'd Put Warning Labels On Mutagenic Plants Before GMOs

I'd Put Warning Labels On Mutagenic Plants Before GMOs

Oct 22 2014 | comment(s)


Imagine we lived in a world where spontaneous mutations were caused by radiation and then released on an unsuspecting public without any testing.

Well, we do. It's called nature. 

High-energy cosmic rays have been breaking chromosomes into pieces that reattach randomly, and sometimes creating genes that didn't previously exist, for as long as some thing has eaten some other thing.
Science Left Behind: The Anti-Vaccine Update Update

Science Left Behind: The Anti-Vaccine Update Update

Oct 20 2014 | comment(s)

Last week I did an update on the anti-vaccine situation in America compared to 2012, when my book, Science Left Behind, was published. I noted that things have gotten better, primarily because people on the left have turned on those people on the left who make up the bulk of the anti-vaccine movement; primarily wealthy, progressive elites.