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  • The Sacred Mushroom

    OK this is long, but worth watching. It’s a show called One Step Beyond, from 1961, about psychedelic mushrooms (i.e., magic mushrooms) and whether or not they enhance ESP. There are so many fascinating / hilarious things about this video. The way they talk funny (“a man was shot!”… “and shot AT!”); the host himself…

  • You Don’t Write on Your Own Facebook Wall

    A peculiar fact about Facebook is that you are not supposed to write on your own wall. Because that really could have gone either way, eh? With blogs, conversations take place on a single blog, often with the blog’s owner commenting on his or her own blog. It has the advantage of the entire conversation…

  • The Psychology of Ice Cream

    In the psychological study of learning, there has been a lot of research on how to reinforce behaviours. Of particular interest is the timing of rewards. If you want someone to keep doing something, do you reward them every time they do it? Or do you reward them only some of the time? Well, it…