Tag: Pseudoscience
Lots of people believe in Bigfoot and other pseudoscience claims –...
Craig A. Foster, State University of New York Cortland
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series...
Lots of people believe in Bigfoot and other pseudoscience claims –...
Craig A. Foster, State University of New York College at Cortland
Uncommon Courses is an...
Can Bionic Reading make you a speed reader? Not so fast
Lauren M. Singer Trakhman, University of Maryland
What if something as simple as bolding parts of a word could...
Happy Twosday! Why numbers like 2/22/22 have been too fascinating for...
Barry Markovsky, University of South Carolina
This Feb. 22, the world hits an unprecedented milestone. It’s the date itself:...
Olympic athletes excel at their sports but are susceptible to unproven...
Nicholas B. Tiller, University of California, Los Angeles
Australian Olympic swimmer Kyle Chalmers earned a silver medal and his...
The brainwashing myth
Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University
Nearly 40 years ago, my two sisters, Carolyn Layton and Annie Moore, were among those who planned the mass...
Personality tests with deep-sounding questions provide shallow answers about the ‘true’...
Randy Stein, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Alexander Swan, Eureka College
Have you ever clicked on a link like “What does your favorite animal...
EXPLORING NATURE
In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like...
Christopher Palma, Penn State
If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter...
