What made you change your mind?

I’ve been pondering this lately, what makes you change your mind? Is it data? A well told story? Did you research and test hypotheses or something else? What eventually got you to accept that a view you held was not right? A paper published in Science called When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmissionContinue reading “What made you change your mind?”

A pox on humanity…and just in time for the holidays too!

The Fate of the World rests in your chip-laden hands. The holidays have arrived and you still don’t know what to get that dystopian gamer in the family, do you? You know the one: the moody, militant, and misanthropic neo-Malthusian who says that SimCity is for pussies. He’s sure that humanity is sucking down theContinue reading “A pox on humanity…and just in time for the holidays too!”