Tag: science
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According to the New Scientist: Women get more of a buzz out of cartoons, a brain-imaging study has found, with their brains feeling more rewarded by a funny joke than those of men.
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I’ve been reading a spate of articles recently concerned with fundamentalism. Antony Barnett and Isobel Hilton have kickstarted a discussion on democracy on openDemocracy, while Bernard Crick wrote a salutory piece in The Guardian on the need for humanists to find common cause with religious people in the face of fanaticism. Also in the Guardian,…
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Busy busy, in preparation for going away this weekend. I’d intended to write a post in response to the New Scientist’s recent issue dedicated to “Reality Wars” but in the meantime I thought I’d simply point people to this exciting new theory on Intelligent Falling.