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Skeptikai defends science and exposes pseudoscience. Living in Japan also allows for an interesting opportunity to discuss fascinating stories that go unnoticed elsewhere. Psychological phenomena and intriguing cases from around the globe are also regularly highlighted.
Rotten America – Big Prison, Arrest Quotas, and What Education Really Pays ForSure, learning the times table isn't going to make you any less likely to stab someone at…
Is Japan About to Become an Offensive Military Power?"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese…
Are Patents Protecting Ideas or Stifling Innovation?A patent is a form of intellectual property that can be granted with the presupposition…
Can Dogs Sniff Out Cancer? Can Rats Sniff Out Tuberculosis?I know what you're thinking - "dogs can sniff out cancer? What a bunch of nonsense!" And…
Scientific Consensus and the Obvious Truth about Global Climate ChangeI often ask questions in my article titles, but the question "are we responsible for climate…
Exorcism, the Human Stun Gun, and SuggestionWhen the world ended last year, I pointed out the there is a certain degree of relativism…
The Psychological Science of StorytellingIt hit me about two years ago, sometime after I started this blog. Somewhere between the…
Islamic Blasphemy and the “Freedom” to Choose your Own ReligionIn the last few weeks, Muslims from Bangladesh have been going crazy trying to fight back…
Inattentional Blindness and the Invisible ViolinistIf a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? It…
Hamas-Israel Ceasefire Ends as Gaza Schools Drop Sports for Military TrainingI have been following the news regarding the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza that…
Tag Archives: haiti
Skeptikai Notices (Sep11) – 9/11, Hackers, Psychology, and more
9/11:
The international news media has been writing extensively about 9/11, because of the 10-year anniversary of the incident. I couldn’t possibly reproduce all of the articles about it, but here are some of the pieces that stood out for me…
Internet archive shows Sept. 11 coverage – A website has gathered international news broadcasts on the 9/11 attacks, totaling over 3,000 hours of television. This is useful for researchers, and it’s interesting to compare the news from different perspectives, from America, to the UK, to Japan, etc.
Posted in Aggregators/lists/rankings
Tagged authority, bioethics, crime, hacker, haiti, homosexuality, LulzSec, twitter, war
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The Sky is Falling over the Rising Sun
If you read past the headline, you should know that I actually believe Japan will be okay, and this post is primarily to make a point. A lot has happened since my last articles regarding the situation here (over a month has passed), and there’s a lot to say (way too much for one post). I will explain more later, but the first thing I want to do is discuss the gravity of the disaster in the same way the foreign media has been doing since the start – focusing entirely on the negative.
Posted in Japan, Media
Tagged chile, discrimination, earthquake, haiti, natural disaster, new zealand
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