Oscar Smith physics II

A slippery slope fallacy is an argument that states that if A happens, then B will happen, where B is an extreme version of A that often r...

Representativeness In driver's ed, I encountered one of the most misleading statistics I've ever heard. Most car crashes happen wi...

Prologue  In my previous blog post, I talked about so me of the difficulties our school has with making rational decisions. Here I am talk...

Introduction Being wrong is an easy task. Being wrong consistently and when hundreds of people are actively trying to make you less wrong ...

One of my biggest unprovable beliefs is that individuals have an effect on the shape of history. This "Great Man" theory o...

I read the article on page 174-175 by Leo M. Chalupa. This article is about three of the authors beliefs: that the human brain is the most ...

All systems of belief have axioms. These are statements that are hopefully both obvious and fundamental. If chosen well, a simple set of axi...