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South Park is God
I have nothing to say today, but everyone should watch the episode of South Park embedded below. It’s pure genius. It combines everything from the Nintendo Wii to Richard Dawkins and intelligent design in classrooms. Awesome.
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Adventures in Caffeine
Have you heard of Coca Cola Blak? Coke advertises it as “Coke effervescence with coffee essence.” I didn’t know what the hell effervescence meant, so I looked it up. It’s another word for fizzy. Thus, Blak is coffee dumped in fizzy Coke. The other day, I went to buy a bottle of Diet Coke at…
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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…
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