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How being called smart can actually make you stupid 23 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
A few months ago I posted a piece which has become my most popular blog post by quite a landslide. The post covered various techniques for learning and looked at the empirical evidence for and against...
Is this the most bizarre paper ever published in a peer reviewed journal? 16 Aug 2013 | 08:41 pm
A paper titled “Welcome to My Brain” has been published in the journal Qualitative Inquiry by Sage which is so unintelligible that it is baffling beyond belief. Unfortunately, the paper is behind a pa...
Placebo Effects: Psychology’s Fundamental Flaw? Why active controls are not enough 22 Jul 2013 | 08:04 pm
A new paper published in Perspectives in Psychological Science (open access) suggests there is “a fundamental design flaw that potentially undermines any causal inference” in much psychology research....
Why open access makes sense 13 Jul 2013 | 04:44 am
On Monday Robin Osborne published a bizarre article in the Guardian: Why open access makes no sense. I’ve translated the commentary into a common sense reading with a satirical slant. Read More
Lie Detectors: The return of trial by ordeal 13 Jul 2013 | 04:41 am
Up until 800 years ago, guilt and innocence in the UK was regularly determined not by judge and jury but through a process known as trial by ordeal: “There were two main ordeals, by fire or by water ...
Does modafinil reduce the effectiveness of hormonal contraception? 13 Jul 2013 | 04:39 am
The wakefulness drug modafinil, dubbed “Professor’s little helper” has in some circles become the go-to drug for pushing the clock back. Much of the distribution is conducted illicitly, meaning the pa...
16 very good reasons to get a shiny new feed reader 2 Jul 2013 | 09:47 pm
At the turn of the century when the internet first began to blow up, a wonderful technology emerged called Rich Site Summary, now more commonly known as Really Simple Syndication or RSS. Today pretty ...
How patent trolls hijacked the building blocks of life 2 Jul 2013 | 07:26 pm
There were three great scientific horse races in the last century. The first two, the race to the moon and the race to split the atom have been widely reported. The race to sequence the human genome s...
Man implants magnet in his ear for use as wireless headphone 27 Jun 2013 | 09:35 pm
Don’t try this at home A man who expects to soon be blind has implanted a magnet into his ear, which can now be used as a wireless headphone. The man used a set of instructions for putting a small...
"The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society" 27 Jun 2013 | 09:35 pm
I love a good protest song, this one by Auditory Canvas couldn’t be more salient. The tune is dubbed entirely with particularly resonant segments of John F Kennedy’s “President and the Press” address ...
