Physicist at Large

One will often hear it asserted that diversity improves team performance and even corporate performance.  Surely there are situations where ...

Phil Ebersole has an excellent post up about the difference between free college and free college for everyone. I endorse his central point...

Chapter 3 has many more examples of how people reach snap judgments.  The most interesting experiment, though, is the one at the end:  Inste...

I don't have it in me to exhaustively recap, but Haidt's main point so far is that moral judgment comes from quick intuition, and th...

My next book will be The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt .  This book explores the psychology understanding political stances.

With the exception of Ibn Al Haytham and Archimedes, ancient science just doesn't do it for me. Not at all.  But I plowed through to the...

Yesterday I was hanging out with some friends and their 5 year-old.  The kid wanted to watch a cartoon, so we put on Magic School Bus , a sh...