Tag Archives: Science

Emoticon Styles (JP vs. US)

2007-05-25 – 5:23 pm

I found this interesting article about Americans and Japanese read faces differently. To cut the article short, they explain that Japanese culture seems to read the eyes for emotional cues while American culture seems to read the mouth.
Quick comparison of emoticons:
 US JP
 :-) ^_^
 x-) [...]

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Morality

2007-05-24 – 7:55 am

I ran across an interesting forum post on the Richard Dawkins website. It points to a morality quiz and a video of Jonathan Haidt talking about a way of thinking about morality that he has developed that helps him understand how different people (specifically conservatives) think about morality and why someone who is liberal has [...]

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Scott Adams Bullshit

2007-03-17 – 8:53 pm

Read this book!
For those unfamiliar with Scott Adams and his comic strip, Dilbert, this rant won’t be interesting. The only thing you should take away from this is that evolution is not bullshit and that you should read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
Scott Adams, it turns out, is pretty darn smart. He [...]

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