As I’m very busy at the present time, this is not going to be a full-blown blog post. I would just like to share with our readers some very interesting videos that I’ve come across recently.
Firstly, a fascinating one hour talk talk by Andy Thomson in which he explains some of the powerful psychological mechanisms [...]
Filed under: Politics, Science by Ralf Damaschke | Social tagging: Adam Curtis > Andy Thomson > Charlie Brooker > news > psychology
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It’s Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday in a couple of weeks. No wonder then that there are currently many events in London to commemorate the seminal scientist. The Natural History Museum, for example, is hosting a small exhibition featuring many of his original notebooks, items from the Beagle (the ship that took him to the Galapagos [...]
Filed under: History, Science by Ralf Damaschke | Social tagging: books > Charles Darwin > evolution > slavery
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A few minutes ago, I decided to put aside the book The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm Kendrick. Actually, I was given the Dutch translation (EAN 9789085711711) to read. Google will give you a long list of bookreviews and bloggers praising the book by “Dr. Kendrick,” but the website of THe International Cholesterol Sceptics (THINCS) [...]
Filed under: Science by Philip Hölzenspies | Social tagging: bad science > books > cholesterol
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