A few months ago I first came across this article on voting machines. Shortly thereafter the original source made it so you had to pay to read the whole thing, and I was quite peeved by that. There are some accusations in there that everyone needs to know have been made ( Read more... )

Was talking about the IQ article I read the other day and was wondering how much they reset the scores. So I did a search and found this along the way.

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Art & Illusion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031020053951.htmThe steady rising of IQ scores over the last century - known as the Flynn effect - causes IQ tests norms to become obsolete over time. To counter this effect, IQ tests are "renormed" (made harder ( Read more... )

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/11/001122144303.htm
The study, appearing in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (http://jama.ama-assn.org/), finds 41 percent of people ( Read more... )

Mysterium Coniunctionis by C.G.Jung: "In the image of the uroboros (the serpent swallowing its own tail) lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process... The uroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e., of the shadow...it is said of the uroboros that he slays ( Read more... )

Tonight was school, but last night I skimmed through my magazines and tried to read a few articles. Almost wrote some stuff about "The God Spot" and whether neuroscience and biochemestry is leaving any room for belief in a soul, but din't. Sounded like I was tryin' too hard to come across as an "intellectual" - which I'm not. (Not an ( Read more... )

So I clicked a link to the nay-sayer-to-Dennett (don't get me wrong - I don't totally agree with Dennett, either)'s homepage. And saw a name and article that intrigued me. Leakey - re: archiology ( Read more... )

(Yes, I have too much time on my hands tonight. This probably can be blamed on being married beyond Saturday being "date night" and not caring for television. Sue me. I also hate the early days of a journal when there's nothing there, so I'm trying to populate it and appear intelligent. Don't worry - that illusion won't last long. Soon I'll be ( Read more... )

Three or four years ago I walked into a book store and asked the clerk if there existed something like "Quantum Physics for Dummies". (Yes, to anyone who may know me from school and read this, I've been the Dummy Queen much longer than y'all've known me.) He chuckled and told me the closest they had was "A Brief History Of Time" by Hawking ( Read more... )