Occam's Donkey

Nedgroup Investments (South Africa) is currently airing a striking  commercial   in which Captain Chesley Sullenberger narrates his   land...

Aircraft accidents make for useful case studies in researching heuristics (rules of thumb) based decision making. This is because multiple ...

Right, time to get the show on the road again. There will be a change in emphasis, as I'll be spending more time on a developing intere...

From The Edge : To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room to...

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. — Proverbs 11:1 From Wikipedia: False balance, also known as f...

Michael Shermer over at Skeptiblog had an interesting discussion on whether more God, or more guns, equal less crime. He based his discussi...

I have often wondered whether definitions of complex issues don't just serve to confuse the issue. We sometimes know what something is u...

My Phd back in the 1980's dealt with the possible role of inefficient interhemispheric transfer in specific learning disabilities. The m...

Celebratory gunfire is an idiotic practice that results in many innocent deaths. According to Wikipedia 38 people died from random falling ...

The term "brain based education" seems to be redundant, a no-brainer, what else could education be based on, the liver? Yet it is ...

"Facilitated communication (FC) is a process by which a facilitator supports the hand or arm of a communicatively impaired individual w...

The excellent work of the Treatment Action Campaign in the fight against HIV-quackery is well-known. The TAC now sponsors a blog, Quackdown...

Every year The Edge asks prominent scientists and other thinkers to answer a specific thought provoking question. The answers are always div...

Three years ago Brain Gym was comprehensively discredited and faced a perfect storm . What has happened to them since? My observation is (no...

I'm a Johny-come-lately to this story, just about every newspaper and skeptical blog has covered the Power Balance bracelet fad started ...