Post No.: 0480 Furrywisepuppy says: We can have different kinds of relationships with tech – they can be in us (e.g. nanotechnology capsules), between us (e.g. phones when making calls), added to us (e.g. prosthetic limbs), be like … Read More
Post No.: 0479 Furrywisepuppy says: In science, ‘ecological validity’ is the degree to which the settings, materials, procedures, timescales, etc. of an experiment approximate the real world it’s trying to emulate. So when people criticise a laboratory-based experiment … Read More
Post No.: 0478 Furrywisepuppy says: Many investors and businesses are more interested in hearing the forecasts they want to hear than understanding whether such forecasts are dependable or not – hence all these 2, 3, 5-year turnover and … Read More
Post No.: 0477 Furrywisepuppy says: Is religion an effective mechanism for encouraging more moral and pro-social behaviours and for enforcing compliance with the social rules or norms within a group? Cooperation is the cornerstone for group cohesion … Read More
Post No.: 0476 Furrywisepuppy says: ‘Negative externalities’ occur when the production or consumption of something causes any kind of cost to be passed onto a third-party. A classic example is air, water, land, noise or light pollution. Meanwhile, … Read More
Post No.: 0475 Furrywisepuppy says: Pains, in particular, generally drive us to seek to belong to social groups for support, which makes being ignored, ostracised, isolated, solitarily confined, socially deprived or excluded one of the most doubly hurtful … Read More
Post No.: 0474 Fluffystealthkitten says: Although considered a ‘trace gas’ in the Earth’s atmosphere, there’s a lot of carbon dioxide in the air and depleting the amount of trees and forests on the ground is not a good … Read More
Post No.: 0473 Furrywisepuppy says: The reason why the scientific process is the most reliable way to obtain the truth is because of the testing and challenging of beliefs and hypotheses, and the need for evidence. Things aren’t … Read More
Post No.: 0472 Fluffystealthkitten says: All words have a semantic meaning (a literal meaning) and a pragmatic meaning (why something was expressed, which will take into account the context it was expressed). Non-word utterances, like grunts, can have … Read More
Post No.: 0471 Furrywisepuppy says: When you know what the lyrics to a muffled phrase in a song are, or the words of a messily handwritten letter are, then those words will seem more crystal clear to you. … Read More
Post No.: 0470 Furrywisepuppy says: We are so innately primed for social interactions, relationships and working together that we will even perceive animated shapes as having intentions and whether we can trust them or not! Unless we’re relevantly … Read More
Post No.: 0469 Furrywisepuppy says: Many scientific experiments over the years have investigated what can affect how much we eat. Here are a few of the findings… A simple thing like using smaller crockery can help us … Read More
Post No.: 0468 Furrywisepuppy says: There’s far more to contributing to a relationship than who brings home the most money. Money is easy to quantify but housework, raising children and so forth (stuff that women traditionally do more … Read More
Post No.: 0467 Fluffystealthkitten says: Carbon offsetting strategies have their supporters and critics. For their supporters, it seems to make logical sense that it’s okay to release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane and … Read More
Post No.: 0466 Furrywisepuppy says: The interaction of both genetics and environmental factors – such as the amount of nutrition received when young or even when still in the womb, humans preferring to hunt larger prey to extinction, … Read More
Post No.: 0465 Furrywisepuppy says: Lots of people will have made New Year’s resolutions about living more healthily after the indulgences of the festive season. For parties and celebrations, we tend to lay out a varied spread … Read More
