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Confirmation bias
All of you religious nutters out there probably believe you’ve known this for some time, but I’m discovering that atheist/agnostic students can be just as unreasonable, pig-headed, irrational, rude, lazy and just plain stoopid as any given believer. As a regular participant in a atheist/agnostic discussion forum at my university, infantile debates are raging on [...]
Am I an idiot?
This was the question I heard a student ask me 10 minutes before his supplementary exam, a week or two ago. Supplementary exam’s, for those not familiar with them, are a second-chance offered to students who end the semester with a final mark of 45%-49%. Seeing as a pass is 50%, the thinking is that [...]
Put a contract out on yourself
It will be interesting to track the success (or lack thereof) of this idea: stickK.com: On stickK, you draw up an official commitment contract that binds you to achieving a personal goal, be it big or small. By agreeing to this contract, you publicly state your goal and commit to achieving it. Or, if grand [...]
25 years later…
I came across the last of these 3 images today, and was struck by the fact that I could remember the entire narrative of the Christian tract it came from – and also that I could still recall, more than 2 decades later, how afraid I was at the time. Today, it all seems so [...]