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  • Book Review: The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene

    It has literally taken me years to read this book. Not because it’s uninteresting or anything, but because I have to be in a certain mood to read it. A mood in which I’m ready to read slowly and think deeply. The Elegant Universe is about superstring theory and M-theory; basically, the “theory of everything”…

  • Video Games Make You Smart

    I’ll stick with posting about psychology, since school/work is all I’ve been doing lately. I came across an article (Teasdale & Owen, 2000) which looked at trends in intelligence scores over the last few decades. As you may know, intelligence has been steadily going up over time. This study looked at a Danish population, to…

  • Blinded With Science

    Here is a test of your intelligence: He-Man and Friends are to the Universe as Phronk is to __________ ? That’s right, I’m a MASTER OF SCIENCE, fuckers. Now I will leave civilization for a few days. Bye. P.S. This is a picture of me graduating