Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
We return this week, dear reader, to one of my favorite topics, the placebo effect. I have written about this elsewhere (more specifically, in this link and this one).
You can imagine my joy, therefore, when I found this article which mentions it as well.
Being the UK Guardian it is a serious and concerned article which […]
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Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
How easily I am swayed! I have been saying nasty things about science now for a while, and then along comes this bright little article (which can be viewed in its entirety here) and I swoon with love for science!
The title first seduced me. ‘Many scientists are convinced that man can see the future‘. Now […]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Nigel Percy
The institute here is the world famous Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. The person involved is Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer, its director.
The interview is in the New York Times (specifically, found at this link). It is an interview with Dr Gigerenzer about his new book “Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the […]
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Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
The London Times recently had an interesting article about intuition which I feel compelled to share with you simply because I can and also because you should know about it. The whole article is to be found here.
Before you race off in a flurry of activity, allow me to dissect it and draw your attention […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nigel Percy
Regular readers of this blog may have noted that I seem to have a certain ‘attitude’ towards science. By that, I don’t mean I am against science (that would be like being ‘against’ blood because it makes me nauseous, not because I want to ban blood from the universe).
In the light of this apparent antipathy […]
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