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Category: psychology

  • Book Review: Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

    I’ll keep this short, because Freakonomics is a pretty simple book. It takes a look at various topics—the effect of names on success, drug dealer salaries, cheating in sumo wrestling, etc.—through the eyes of an economist. This book is a few years old (and has a sequel out now), and it took me a while…

  • Tweeting With the Stars, Volume 4 – Deepak Chopra

    If you don’t do Twitter, here is the conversation expanded and translated into IRL-speak: Deepak Chopra: “Before particles and waves are observed they exist as transcendent potentia in the field. The field interacting with its own self creates particles waves and the physical world. The field is non physical transcendent. It is a field of…

  • Unrelated Captions

    One of my favourite blogs as of late is Unrelated Captions. Like the name implies, it consists of pictures affixed with unrelated captions. For some reason this is hilarious. I think part of the appeal is that our brains can’t help but try to search for meaning in everything. Is the above picture a comment…