Not only does fundamentalism promote delusional thinking, it also discourages followers from exposing themselves to any different ideas, which acts to protect the delusions that are essential to the ideology. How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain | Psychology Today Of course, it would be irrational of magical thinkers to pursue policies that were not supportive…
Having just finished updating over 200 pages to BB2, I have to say several things about the SBI system: 1. The SBI system is a database-driven system, pages are served from a large cache prepared by the page generator. But the database is massive, hugely complex, and accessible indirectly through the tools in SBI. Whether…
I haven’t used very much ‘professional’ audio conferencing, but for my personal needs I’ve found Skype to be a pretty useful and fairly reliable option. Some of the other programs I’ve used are Ventrilo and GoogleVoice, however I felt Skype to be of adequate quality and easiest in terms of user-friendliness. I have also found…
Having taught at pretty much all age groups throughout Taiwan’s educational spectrum, I believe that there are six axioms that pretty much inform ALL of Taiwan’s educational philosophy in the 21st Century. Whether any of these is relevant for Taiwan in the 21st Century is entirely another question. 1. To learn it you MUST memorize…
Will you be upgrading or buying it on a new system? I already decided that one!
If you’re not an afficianado of the 1997 movie Gattaca, you really ought to be. It’s a very prescient movie in its portrayal of how DNA testing is likely to play out in our lives in the not too distant future. We’re not just talking your standard paternity test, either. DNA tests, in the movie,…
Well, Ted from PPP is giving away 5 sets of HP Photo Gear to encourage us Posties to improve our skills in digital photography. Ted just got a shipment of ten awesome new 6 megapixel digital cameras and photo printers from our friends at HP. These things are SWEET and we want to get them…