The Unscientific Method: When Scientists Refuse to Science

Why do we assume that scientists are smarter than we are? They can be just as ignorant about some things as the rest of us. I believe the reason we trust scientists to comprehend things better than your average Joe is that we have a misguided notion that scientists are, you know,

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Movie School: Teaching Through Cinema The Right Way

I’m a movie nerd. Blame it on cable television, or the ‘80s, or Boomer parents who let us Gen-Xers watch pretty much anything we could find. I saw it all, and for better or worse it shaped my worldview. Movies do that, because seeing John McClane jump off an exploding building with

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Poor Stupid Travis: The Disconnect Between Two Americas

“Taylor Swift is one of the most popular women in the world, if not the most popular,” the podcast host said. What? Really? With everything going on in the world right now, Taylor Swift is up there on the global podium? The disconnect between that podcaster’s world and mine was startling, and

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With Our Own Eyes: Revealing Conspiracy Fact Through History

One of the first things you’re taught when studying criminal justice is that eyewitness testimony is wholly unreliable. It’s not true. Eyewitness testimony is essential, and defense attorneys and government agents know it. Those with a vested interest in duping large groups of people have maintained this lie – that we can’t

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