Rituals we perform for good luck are known as sorcery, and actions we avoid out of superstition are taboos.
Liberals and Conservatives: Ideology over Science
October 8, 2012 By 51 Comments
What you believe should be true limits what you are willing to believe is true.
The Good Mind Project: Intolerance Toward Contradictions
September 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
Consistency is absolutely essential to reaching the truth, because without it, truth becomes a completely vacuous concept.
Queering the Nerd/Nerding the Queer
July 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What can queer theories offer in examining nerd masculinities?
Black Comics Talk Like This, Female Comics Talk Like That, and Adam Carolla is Wrong
June 20, 2012 By 7 Comments
“This is not a debate, because it is entirely based on whether I understand his frame of reference, and find his take on his experiences to be humorous. If I don’t, then I won’t laugh.” Josh Bowman explores the logic of humour.
Music: Brutha Gimel’s Spin City for February 7, 2012 [musical recommendations from @bruthagimel]
February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I am Man, Hear Me Roar!
June 27, 2011 By 18 Comments
Roger Durham discusses the loss of intellectual dialog to loud, vitriolic and sometimes personal attacks on character.
Axiomatically Speaking
June 19, 2011 By 8 Comments
We’re all familiar with the phenomenon. You’re arguing with some jerk in the comments section of a blog, and judging by responses, all your carefully crafted, brilliantly logical arguments seem like they’re coming out in the twilight zone, where they get mangled into terrible straw man constructions that should never be. “What the hell is [...]
“The phrases ‘I don’t see race’ and ‘I’m colorblind’ are problematic because they assume there is something wrong with color.”
This is a comment by Jimbo on the post “”I Don’t See Race”: Racial Color Blindness and Eradicating Racism”.