Post No.: 0221 Furrywisepuppy says: Okay, do you wanna play? Ruff! Fluffystealthkitten says: ?.. Furrywisepuppy says: Okay. Say hello to my little friend! Fluffystealthkitten says: …Whoa! So you’ve finally finished building your … Read More
Post No.: 0220 Furrywisepuppy says: We all have limited attentional resources – so we can do several things at once but only if they’re all very undemanding and simple intuitive tasks or tasks we’re specifically skilled at doing. … Read More
Post No.: 0219 Furrywisepuppy says: Age plays a key role in how much sleep is optimal for us and when we tend to sleep and wake up. Babies sleep for ~16 hours per day, with lots of randomly-timed … Read More
Post No.: 0218 Furrywisepuppy says: This post relates to Post No.: 0115 but I’ll explore more the ethics regarding doping in sports… Save for things that would be illegal if done outside of a sport too, what … Read More
Post No.: 0217 Fluffystealthkitten says: Religions have had, and still currently have, a lot to directly say about sex and marriage norms across the world. Different major religions have different fertility rates, and other factors (e.g. poverty levels) … Read More
Post No.: 0216 Furrywisepuppy says: Adolescence is an important stage of development – it’s the transition from childhood to adulthood and many changes occur. Physical changes include changes to sleep timing, accelerated bone growth, the voice deepening, and … Read More
Post No.: 0215 Furrywisepuppy says: We often go to war because the will, influence and decisions of a few (i.e. politicians or generals) will sway or override the will of the many, where such political decisions or initial … Read More
Post No.: 0214 Furrywisepuppy says: If you really want to learn something and make it stick then highlighting passages of text is useless unless you look back at those highlights and most of all test retrieving that material … Read More
Post No.: 0213 Furrywisepuppy says: A ‘placebo’ is something, whether a compound, procedure or other thing, that brings about a beneficial psychological (and therefore possibly physiological) effect for a patient, that cannot be attributed to the therapeutic worth … Read More
Post No.: 0212 Furrywisepuppy says: Especially amid the relatively new sectors of the media (namely online), but elsewhere too, the news is primarily about garnering eyeballs and clicks, about attracting attention and serving narrow self-interests – not necessarily … Read More
Post No.: 0211 Fluffystealthkitten says: Rather than money – having good friendships or social relationships and support is one of the strongest predictors of happiness. To clarify further, it’s the quality, not quantity, of our social connections that … Read More
Post No.: 0210 Furrywisepuppy says: This post essentially follows on from Post No.: 0132 about how children pick up their first language… Language is common for all humans, except in rare cases of aphasia caused by brain … Read More
Post No.: 0209 Furrywisepuppy says: Stigma, when it relates to mental health, can be in the form of ‘social stigma’ (the stigmatising attitudes of society/other people) and it can be in the form of ‘self-stigma’ (an internalised or … Read More
Post No.: 0208 Fluffystealthkitten says: We briefly queried whether there could be a creationist god after all in Post No.: 0074. For the sake of this post, we’re going to agree that God exists… Well philosophers have … Read More
Post No.: 0207 Furrywisepuppy says: A ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ places a label upon another person, or upon oneself, and in turn leads them, or one, directly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously, to act in a way that supports and … Read More
Post No.: 0206 Furrywisepuppy says: There is generally a false dichotomy between politically ‘rightwing’ and ‘leftwing’ people. There are a lot of different schools of philosophy and they don’t fit neatly along one single linear dimension. For instance, … Read More
Post No.: 0205 Fluffystealthkitten says: Learning could be said to be the acquisition and containment of information, whilst memory could be said to be the ability to retain and make use of information. Extending on Post No.: … Read More
Post No.: 0204 Furrywisepuppy says: The diagnosis of depression has increased over the past few decades (in the ‘West’ at least). Is this due to an over-diagnosis or due to better awareness of the disease? And is there … Read More
