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Benefits from playing action video games 27 Aug 2013 | 01:31 pm
I just finished reading a recent review by Dapne Bavelier about the benefits of playing action video games. This review does not address the controversial issue of whether video games cause people to ...
How fast are audible books read? 19 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
Since my life involves many tasks that are very tedious, but can be done in an incognizant state of mind I tend to listen to many podcasts and audiobooks. That tedious work such as cleaning, washing u...
Review of Energy for future presidents by Richard Muller 18 Aug 2013 | 10:51 am
I will start by admitting that I am a fan of Richard Muller. Before I even went to university I watched every lecture in his "Physics for future presidents" course at UC Berkeley, which was one of the...
Review of The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris 16 Jul 2013 | 11:59 am
In one of the most memorable examples in The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris reflects on his own thoughts after his wife told him that another man had openly flirted with her in the gym, even though she h...
Google swype keyboard censorship 9 Jun 2013 | 10:08 pm
A few months back I switched from using Swiftkey's keyboard for android to using Google's native keyboard. The reason was that there was often an annoying delay from when I pressed a letter to the tim...
When people use social media to obtain news... 6 Jun 2013 | 10:59 am
One problem with using social media to get your news is that sometimes news that aren't really new start being spread on a social media. If the news item is sufficiently catchy it can get huge attenti...
Religion car analogy and visit from Jehovah's witnesses 2 Jun 2013 | 09:52 pm
Not too long ago I was visited by two charming young members of Jehovah's witnesses. They wanted to discuss some "deeper thoughts". I immediately came clean saying that I was a member of the Swedish h...
Book review: The Willpower instinct by Kelly McGonigal (PhD) 27 May 2013 | 12:41 pm
Everyone thinks that their willpower fails them, often on a regular basis. Those people who say they have a lot of willpower often have the least. Willpower is undeniably good to have and in studies i...
Book review: Spillover by David Quammen - 22 May 2013 | 12:46 am
This is the best book I have read in a long time. It is like a mystery thriller played out in various exotic locations around the world, that simultaneously, gives the reader intriguing and accurate k...
Sports and superstitions 23 Apr 2013 | 06:19 pm
I have a confession. Even though I feel that "sophisticated scientists" such as myself should be spending their free time analyzing their environment or reading philosophy or something else that is ju...
