The guys at WGRD.com got bored with silly science experiments like freezing something really fast or the double slit experiment, so they carefully compiled some science data on what happens to boobs on roller coasters. Really, there isn’t much more to it than that. Alton Towers Resort got a group of test-riders to slip on [...]
read moreSome psychologists have decided that the ratio of face height and width determines aggression. Yes, your facial ratio is deterministic. How so?
read moreJournalism as an occupation with ethical standards was a 20th century invention. For a brief, shining moment in time, journalists were interested in truth and newspapers flourished. Truth is subjective, of course, and so are editors who set the tone of newspapers and during the time when the press had power across all society, editors were on the left and the right. Newspapers...
read moreWhy would Mohamed Atta graciously let a car rental agent know the check oil light was on in the car he returned and then help crash a plane full of people and fuel into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, an act of simple religious hatred?It's a puzzle of psychology. The ability to deal kindly with people on an individual level and then demonize them when they are in a group has been...
read moreThere's long been a maddening belief by a subset of psychologists who have never actually been to the Eastern part of the world that Asia is some collectivist Utopia.When it comes to inflated self-importance - hubris, even - some research contends, there is more of it in the west because Western culture prides itself on independence, personal success and uniqueness while in the East where harmony...
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