It would be suicide not to follow my dreams.

This blog is probably going to prevent me from finding my dream job. Alas, I cannot escape my fate and am forced to bring you the science behind the reason I am so often perceived as a jerk. First, men find thin, seductive women to be the most attractive (that should have been their headline!) [...]

My cable went out for most of last week, leaving me without the distraction of the internet. I actually managed to get some reading done. I also got out of the house more. I met some very interesting people and interacted with a few I hadn’t seen in a while. The way people see me [...]

The Skeptics’ Daily Affirmation Like most psychological questions, the effects of self-affirmation are complex and not completely understood. It seems that they have a negative effect on people with low self-esteem. For people with average to high self-esteem, there is a slightly positive effect which can make people less defensive and more open, but also [...]

A little office discussion the other today turned alarmingly funny when my bosses (who are an older couple) mentioned that the husband had learned what a “cougar” was. All I could respond with was, “yeah, they’re in season right now, too.” Living smack dab in the middle of the downtown, I have been witness to [...]

Coilhouse – Latex/Guns/Gnosis: The Matrix Turns 10: To date myself, I was 16 at the time and came out of the theater utterly energized. I wasn’t the only one. William Gibson dubbed it “an innocent delight I hadn’t felt in a long time.” Darren Aronofsky raved that it heralded a new age in sci-fi. Neil [...]

Born Believers: How your brain creates god: WHILE many institutions collapsed during the Great Depression that began in 1929, one kind did rather well. During this leanest of times, the strictest, most authoritarian churches saw a surge in attendance. This anomaly was documented in the early 1970s, but only now is science beginning to tell [...]

From Psychedelic Medicine News: Scientists have been searching for years for naturally occurring compounds that trigger activity in the protein, the sigma-1 receptor. In addition, a unique receptor for the hallucinogen, called dimethyltryptamine (DMT), has never been identified. The UW-Madison researchers made the unusual pairing by doing their initial work the “old-fashioned,” yet still effective, [...]

Of Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne. When King Pyrrhus invaded Italy, having viewed and considered the order of the army the Romans sent out to meet him: “I know not,” said he, “what kind of barbarians,” (for so the Greeks called all other nations) “these may be; but the disposition of this army, that I [...]

Sarah Palin not as evil as previously reported? This does not raise my opinion of McCain and I still have enough disagreement with both of their positions. If your fear of law enforcement is still irrational, you need to start reading Radley Balko’s blog. He keeps it real. This Recording explains something called a ‘purity [...]