A Brief History of Everything: Where Science and Spirituality Converge
In some fields, the deeper you get into them, the more the field seems to approach spirituality. A perfect example of this is science. No doubt, there’s already plenty written about the convergence of...
View ArticleLooking for a Husband or a Wife? It’s Time to Learn About Altruism
Human companionship. It’s something that we all crave. In fact, a quick look at Google’s autocomplete shows that two of the top three results for “how to get a” return “girlfriend” and “guy to like...
View ArticleWanna Lose Weight? Get Some Sleep!
There was some research published within the last year that you might be particularly interested in, should you be in the middle of or about to go on a diet (or you’re interested in your health in...
View ArticlePositive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful
Pop quiz: hands up — how many of you think positive stereotypes are OK? I suspect that for many of you, your first reaction may have been, “well, yeah, they’re positive, right?” I can totally empathize...
View ArticleDo New Stadiums Lead to an Increase in Business?
Unless you’re familiar with the literature in this arena (no pun intended) or you know about Betteridge’s law of headlines, the title of this post is actually still an unresolved question for you....
View ArticleWhat is Data Science?
There’s no question that “data science” is becoming more and more popular. In fact, Booz Allen Hamilton (a consultancy) found: The term Data Science appeared in the computer science literature...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts: Planning Fallacy, Sci-Fi, Gendered Language, and Scarcity/Excess
As I look to breathe some life back into writing, I thought I’d take a quick peek at some of the “drafts” I had saved from when I used to write regularly. Fortunately, there aren’t too many there. In...
View ArticleSwitchbacks Get You Up The Steepest Mountains
Now isn’t that a quote!? I heard this the other day listening to Alie Ward’s 100th episode of Ologies. In just about every episode, Alie will interview an expert about their “ologie.” Just to give you...
View ArticleUncertainty: Accounting for Known and Unknown Outcomes
Note: for the last few posts, I’ve been exhausting the store-house of prewritten pieces from other websites that I hadn’t yet transferred to this website. I believe all have been posted here now, so...
View ArticleScience is Awesome: Humans Can Breathe Liquid
Depending upon one’s teachers at school when they were younger (or older), there can be an affinity for or a strong aversion from science. I remember fondly some of the teachers I had in science (and...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts: Making a Difference and Honouring Future Ancestors
It’s kind of amazing how quickly things start to pile up and one’s good intentions, the proverbial “best laid plans,” are thrown to the wayside. When I first came back to writing here, my intention, my...
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