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Socrates
Bursting Bubbles
- Which of these are true and which are false.
- More heat is lost through the head than the body
- Vikings had horned helmets
- Bats are blind
- Dogs sweat by salivating
- Don't eat before you swim
- Einstein was bad at math
- Cops have to admit who they are if asked
- Humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time
- Coffee causes dehydration
- Humans only use up to 10% of their brain
- Alcohol kills brain cells
- Skepticism vs. Cynicism.
- Snopes[website]
Videos
- Who was Socrates? [video]
- Know Nothing [video]
Writings
Richness of Life
- A 'Good' Life Doesn't Necessarily Have to Be Happy, New Psychology Research Shows [article]
- How to foster ‘shoshin’ [article]
Epistemology
Deluding ourselves
- This new study on pathological liars finds about 13% of people tell 10 lies per day[article]
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics Revisited: An Ideological Asymmetry in Conspiratorial Thinking[article]
- Why Do We Believe In Superstitions Even Though We Know They’re Irrational?[article]
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Humility and Arrogance: echo chamber of the internet and information" [article]
- Between Knowing and Believing: Can we be certain that what we now think are facts are not merely beliefs? [article]
- Dogmatic people seek less information even when uncertain[article]
- Hypocognition is a censorship tool that mutes what we can feel[article]