Pennycook’s Poppycock – A new scientific study has been released in Judgment and Decision Making that is garnering headlines (most of them overblown, sensationalist, and reactionary) that attempts to measure peoples’ susceptibility to “pseudo-profound bullshit.” Gordon Pennycook and colleagues used a sentence generator that takes words and phrases lifted straight from Deepak Chopra’s Twitter feed…
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine Some people venture aboard a cruise ship looking for rest and relaxation. Others look for excitement and excursions. And then there’s the cocktail and casino seekers. When it comes to vacationing on the seven seas, there are…
Public libraries are havens. When in my early 20s, I spent a ridiculous amount of time in a library in the downtown part of Norfolk, Virginia. I was so poor then that I couldn’t afford to buy books, not even from the bookshop where I clerked and was entitled to an employee discount. But books…
Perfect for eco-minded gangsters, anyone might appreciate becoming part of a reef installation, as long as all the weighting and sinking and such were post-mortem, naturally. Eternal Reefs mixes one’s ashes with concrete and makes domes with holes, or reef balls, which become homes for plants and underwater animals. They have these things positioned along…
