Making Scientific Blogging "Count"
We are, as a culture, obsessed with counting things. From the number of "likes" and "followers" we have to the number of "retweets" and "shares" we get. It's how we measure our popularity and in ...
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Walk this way, talk this way, roll in the hay: Bringing life and humanity to extinct Neanderthals
Teaching anthropology and human evolution involves tearing down stubborn misconceptions and stimulating students to discover and to behold their culturally-limited assumptions objectively. That's i...
Read ItA Critical Examination of the U.S. Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program
This article examines the U.S. Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program from a scientific, ethical, and pragmatic viewpoint. CSF is one of the largest single applications of psychologica...
Read ItSocial priming and psi
Update: before being accused of being a bully because I compare social priming researchers to parapsychologists, a) I consider myself to be a psi researcher, so if anyone takes offense to being com...
Read ItIs psi a legitimate topic of study?
Weird stuff happens from time to time – it’s a fact of life. When I was applying for a position as assistant professor in Exeter, the weeks before the interview the word ‘Exeter’ started to pop up ...
Read ItWhy no one will win the Randi or Chopra Challenges
Whoa! Deepak Chopra is offering 1 million dollars to anyone able to present a falsifiable theory of consciousness, in response to James Randi’s $1 Million Dollar challenge to show paranormal (psi) ...
Read ItOn (social) priming
Hmm, never thought (micro)blogging would be such an interesting experience… turns out it’s an excellent way to be exposed to different views and opinions. Last week, I posted an unpublished manuscr...
Read ItIs psi truly impossible?
Over the last weeks, several interesting posts in which psi prominently featured were posted on the web: one by Alex Holcombe, in which he argues that as long as meta-analyses find evidence for psi...
Read ItInstallations of Meaning: Sculptural Discourses in Site/Scale Suspensions
This post is the seed of a paper I am writing about a way to think with meaning across sites and scales. My thinking here is influenced by encounters of many kinds with great thinkers such as Avita...
Read ItXenolinguistics, SETI, and Pre-Colonial Anthropology
I just finished re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World Is Forest (1976) in an old well-read family copy with the same cover illustration as this edition pictured here. The book is part ...
Read ItCyber-Techniques of the Body & the "Looq"
At the American Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting in Chicago, I presented a paper in the panel “Bridging Digital and Physical Publics: Digital Anthropologist’s current engagements wi\nth 21...
Read ItThe Goldilocks Theory
“It’s a world not too big, not too small. It’s just right.” -Stu Spath, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company I frequently come across the ‘Goldilocks’ analogy in popular reporting on space science...
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