by Craig Marker | Sep 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from livescience.com: Forty-three years after that Friday in Dallas, JFK is still the victim of a massive conspiracy, Elvis is still alive and presumably eating chocolate-covered fried chicken, and Paul McCartney is dead. For those who don’t know,...
by Craig Marker | Sep 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Wired Science Blog:The capacity for cluelessness of the clever was the subject of an Idea Festival talk by journalist Laurence Gonzales, who in Deep Survival examined the question of why some people survive crises and others die. The two questions,...
by Craig Marker | Sep 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience: A common media myth that sprung up after the attacks was that American tastes in entertainment would be forever changed. After seeing real-life horrors, the experts claimed, Americans would yearn for non-violent, wholesome family fare....
by Craig Marker | Sep 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from this article by Peter Lawrence: Modern science, particularly biomedicine, is being damaged by attempts to measure the quantity and quality of research. Scientists are ranked according to these measures, a ranking that impacts on funding of...
by Craig Marker | Sep 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Mahalonbis’ Distance:The book Satisfaction by Gregory Berns is a quick and interesting read. There are a few profound nuggets in here, basically, that much of life is centered not on pleasure or happiness, but rather satisfaction. In fact,...
by Craig Marker | Aug 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience.com:Overall, the public greatly underestimates the incidence of suicide. About 30,000 people die by suicide each year in America. It is the ninth leading cause of death in this country, and higher for men than women. And it’s not just...
