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1 day ago · This progression, documented with detailed data by thinkers like cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker and evolutionary theorist Michael Shermer, suggests an inexorable trend towards increased cooperation, empathy, and moral consideration.
3 days ago · Shermer and Junger discuss: his near-death experience and his curent beliefs • NDEs and OBEs • hallucinations • altered states of consciousness • sensed presence effect • sleep paralysis • why there is no “proof” of an afterlife • living forever • belief in life after death • empirical truths vs. mythic truths • longevity and how to live longer.
3 days ago · 01:22:30 - For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest h…
3 days ago · In his book Conspiracy, Michael Shermer outlines the concept of negativity bias, which is our tenancy to disproportionately focus on negative things. For example, my kids (understandably) have negativity bias when I ask them to tidy up their toys – they cannot see the positive of the future clean room, only the negative of the task of cleaning it.
7 hours ago · Shermer M (1997). Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 978-0-7167-3090-3. Thagard PR (1978). "Why astrology is a pseudoscience". PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 1978 (1): 223–234.
4 days ago · That comment has been tied to what Hitler said about the Jews. Gen. John Kelly, a Trump chief of staff, reported that Trump said, “Hitler had done some good things.”. Then there’s Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana in a deposition during their divorce saying that The Donald used to keep a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed.
5 days ago · Here is an interesting discussion between Yuval Levin and Michael Shermer where Levin explains that the two parties continue doing the same thing over and over again because America is so evenly divided, they just might get a different result. Division and Polarization in American Politics: Balancing Majority Rule and Minority Rights (youtube.com)
