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Tag Archives: science
Lab Assistant to My Eight Year Old Daughter
My eight year old daughter Elizabeth and I have been having a lot of fun recently carrying out all sorts of experiments with a junior chemistry set. It’s already been quite an adventure into science and not only have we learned a lot but we’ve also had some wonderful Daddy and daughter time together, working our way through the introductory lessons … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged chemistry, daughter, family, father, science
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Living a Good Life
By LadyJulBug
Everyone wants to be happy.
Everyone wants to live a good life.
I don’t think those are over-generalizing assumptions about our species.
The path towards achieving these goals looks different for each person.
For me, it looks like education and science.
A few years ago, I was taking a course on Diversity in Education as part of my professional education minor requirements. In … Read more
Spirituality and “Inner” Life
I have come across many scientists who say: “I do not subscribe to any religion, but I am a spiritual person.” What exactly is spirituality? Here are a couple of definitions:
The term “spirituality” lacks a definitive definition, although social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for “the sacred,” where “the sacred” is broadly defined as that which is set apart … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged Body, brain, Definition, development, Dreaming, History, Kurzweil, Logic, Meditation, mind, Mystical, Personal, Physics, Ray, religion, research, science, skeptics, Spirituality, Vinod, Wadhawan
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Belief
By Fran Evanisko
(in collaboration with his local Brights Community Cluster)
To my dad, the old days were either better or worse than the present, depending on the point he was trying to make. If he wanted me to appreciate all of the good things I had, he would emphasize how bad things were during the depression. If he wanted me to feel bad about … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged acceptance, Aristotle, belief, believe, disagreements, Earth, evidence, faith, Galileo, objective, philosophy, proposition, Pythagoras, religion, science, truth, worldviews
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Does Literary Fiction Help You Read Minds?
Article by Dan Arel
I read a lot. However, I mostly focus on history, politics or science. I rarely break out a good piece of literary fiction. Though, after reading this recent study from the New School for Social Research, in which they studied the correlation between what people read and how well they read faces….
In the study, recently published in the journal Science… Read more
The Know It All Effect
Article by Dan Arel
Do people who claim to have a strong understanding of science challenge their views? - Do people who claim religious affiliation read scientific studies that oppose their worldview?
S. Mo Jang of the University of Michigan set out to answer such questions. He recently published findings in Science Communication.
In his paper, “Seeking Congruency or Incongruency Online? Examining Selective Exposure … Read more
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Tagged media, opposing views, religious affiliation, science, understanding, worldview
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