Tag Archives: critical thinking

Beware cows with chainsaws

By Ryan | Published: February 17, 2010

Generally I try to avoid writing about politically-charged topics because the facts are difficult to navigate. Every potential source article may or may not have an agenda skewing its figures. My own goal for today is to do my part to help with some education about the food we shove in our collective faces, but [...]

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FACT: the glass is most likely half empty

By Ryan | Published: December 16, 2009

I’m a pretty steady optimist, usually assuming things will work out, though last week I had a bout of pessimism. (I think I’m over that now) So the traditional optimist/pessimist dilemma is this: “Is the glass half full or half empty?” Despite being on the positive side of the game, I do have to say [...]

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FACT: the world will not end in 2012

By Ryan | Published: November 3, 2009

There is a lot of noise these days about the imminent end of earth coming up in 2012. This latest doomsday prediction is based on an ancient Mayan calendar, showing the end of all creation on December 21, 2012. Before you think you’ve lucked out not having to buy christmas presents, let’s examine the facts. [...]

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FACT: the so-called global warming crisis is a lot of hot air

By Ryan | Published: October 15, 2009

This post is part of “Blog Action Day“, wherein over 7000 blogs will be posting on the topic of climate change. The goal is to raise awareness of the issues and concerns of the global environment. I have a hunch that my post is not quite what they had in mind. I’ll come right out [...]

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FACT: Project Alpha convinced scientists that psychics are real

By Ryan | Published: October 8, 2009

This is part the fourth of “deception week”. This time we don the white coats and head into the lab to show that science is not immune to deception. (well… good science is) In 1979 half a million dollars was donated to the Washington University (in St. Louis) to create the McDonnal Laboratory for Psychical [...]

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FACT: using Facebook may cause lung cancer*

By Ryan | Published: September 4, 2009

I’m declaring “casual Friday” here at LSNED today, for this post is not really a fact. It is, however, rather interesting (to me) and most importantly you just might learn something, which fulfills my requirements. For the last couple days I’ve been working at an internet technology trade show booth, giving demonstrations and educating people [...]

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