I've long been concerned about the brainwashing and indoctrination found in school's science classes, going beyond teaching science and promoting a materialistic world view. Impressionable youngsters are told that humans have five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) and they are the only way humans perceive and interact with the... Continue reading

Two hundred years of independance plus one hundred years since the revolution equals HUGE celebration! Except that Mexicans tend to celebrate in a big way on most occasions... September 15th is Mexican Indepedance Day, and this year marked the 200 year anniversay of the revolution against the Spaniards and the... Continue reading

FIRST POST! (Well, entered on TypePad anyway) A new study has been released showing that playing "action games" improves peoples decision-making skills. I'm not going to read the study, I'm going to go purely off this CS Monitor story. By "action games" they seem to refer to first person shooters,... Continue reading