Post No.: 0128 Furrywisepuppy says: Few students ever learn how to best learn – as in how to employ optimal learning techniques. So what study techniques can help us to learn more effectively and efficiently so that more … Read More
Post No.: 0127 Fluffystealthkitten says: As you probably know very well from personal experience – trying to debunk another person’s deeply-held beliefs is often fraught with dangers. It can sometimes backfire, and backfire spectacularly. It’s like trying to … Read More
Post No.: 0126 Furrywisepuppy says: Let’s start with some obvious generalities first – we like people we associate with rewarding and happy feelings and events (e.g. gift giving, romantic dinners, holidays, laughter). We also tend to like people … Read More
Post No.: 0125 Furrywisepuppy says: As of posting, and consistently for many years now according to annual surveys – some of the happiest countries in the world are Nordic countries. Many factors influence the average happiness levels of … Read More
Post No.: 0124 Furrywisepuppy says: In scenarios involving only two parties (as an example) – the ‘pie’ in negotiation contexts is the net combined benefit arising from the two parties reaching an agreement together, minus party A’s net … Read More
Post No.: 0123 Furrywisepuppy says: Get some sleep… is something I keep having to tell myself(!) Sleep is for repairing the body and for the consolidation of memories. Toxic debris that builds up in the brain during … Read More
Post No.: 0122 Furrywisepuppy says: The signs of depression are sometimes not easy to detect and sometimes easy to misread – these signs can seem like ‘normal behaviours’ to many observers (and sometimes they are if they’re only … Read More
Post No.: 0121 Furrywisepuppy says: Our expectations and preconceptions can shape or override our sensory data. For example, in experiments, unless there are glaring differences in taste between two different wines, the higher-priced wine will be deemed more … Read More
Post No.: 0120 Fluffystealthkitten says: Homo sapiens (who have been around for only ~200,000 years so far, or at least a number of this order of magnitude as the best estimate at the time of writing) only started … Read More
Post No.: 0119 Furrywisepuppy says: Those who save the lives of the already sick or in danger are indeed heroes – but surely so are those who work to prevent people from becoming sick or in danger in … Read More
Post No.: 0118 Furrywisepuppy says: ‘Fairness’ and ‘balance’ in news reports are not the same things – being fair to the overall weight of empirical evidence is far more important than balancing both sides of a story. For … Read More
Post No.: 0117 Furrywisepuppy says: Some people ask what’s the point in space research, science in general, furthering knowledge and the (often public) money spent on these activities? But many others and I see exploring and learning as … Read More
Post No.: 0116 Furrywisepuppy says: Even after the most incredible or terrible of events, we have an amazing tendency to regress, at least largely back, and often completely back, to the happiness levels we had prior to the … Read More
Post No.: 0115 Fluffystealthkitten says: Anabolic steroids, erythropoietin (EPO), human growth hormone (hGH) and the use of other banned substances in sport is dilemmatic in the sense that the cheaters, as in those who take them, often do … Read More
Post No.: 0114 Fluffystealthkitten says: You don’t sound so well puppy. Furrywisepuppy says: I’m not feeling my usual bouncy self today :{. I’ve been a little bit under the weather as they say. Doggone, I … Read More
Post No.: 0113 Furrywisepuppy says: Following on from Post No.: 0023 about how science cannot always answer what we ought to do with the facts we find – philosophy, religion and politics attempt to answer the questions that … Read More
