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Reason Has Nothing To Do With Reality

"We like to believe that the gift of human reason lets us think like scientists, so that our conscious thoughts lead us closer to the truth. But here’s the paradox: all that reasoning and confabulation can often lead us astray, so that we end up knowing less about what jams/cars/jelly beans we actually prefer. So here’s my new metaphor for human reason: our rational faculty isn’t a scientist – it’s a talk radio host."

(via Jonah Lehrer's We Are All Talk Radio Hosts, now at Wired Science)

"Renn, wenn du kannst" im Kino

Go and check out "Renn, wenn du kannst" (Run, if you can) in the movies - a great new young intelligent funny political entertaining German movie by Dietrich Brüggemann.

His plea, the facebook group, the website, the screening dates, the trailer.

Pulpo Paul, the Uri Geller of Cephalopod Molluscs, and Publication Bias

Neil O'Connell has a neat little piece over at Body in Mind on what Paul the Psychic Octopus tells us about the nature of scientific truth (via Seed Magazine's "Are Octopuses Smart?")

HipHop Rocks Historical Lexicography

...and Melle Mel rocks the Oxford English Dictionary (cf. Ben Zimmer's feature in the New York Times).

Jonah Lehrer on Brain-Body Holism

"It strikes me that we need a new metaphor for the interactions of the brain and body. They aren't simply connected via some pipes and tubes. They are emulsified together, so hopelessly intertwined that everything that happens in one affects the other. Holism is the rule."
From: Cages and Cancer

Why Germany Wins the World Cup 2010

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Addendum: Pulpo Paul was stronger