The invention of mummification. This was believed to be the key to a happy afterlife; certainly there were no disgruntled customers coming back to say otherwise.
Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different. —JAMES BORG
We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in the society who come out on the bottom.
Today we know that gas as carbon dioxide. Priestley had inadvertently invented a way to create carbonated beverages, but alas, since he was a man of modest means, he didn’t commercialize his invention...
IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. I
Heisenberg, who was attempting to hold German physics together, resented Schrödinger’s departure, since he was neither Jewish nor otherwise endangered.
German authorities saw the need for a statute explicitly forbidding anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine,
Do we, like the flight instructors, believe that harsh criticism improves our children’s behavior or our employees’ performance?
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self their inaccessibility is due to the architecture...
When chance is involved, people’s thought processes are often seriously flawed.
Regulations allow for up to ten insect fragments per thirty-one-gram serving.
It is not uncommon for experts in DNA analysis to testify at a criminal trial that a DNA sample taken from a crime scene matches that taken from a suspect. How certain are such matches? When DNA evide...
When we are in the grasp of illusion – or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea – instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologist...
We all understand that genius doesn’t guarantee success, but it’s seductive to assume that success must come from genius.
People seemed to decide how much to eat based on box size as much as taste.
People have a basic desire to feel good about themselves, and we therefore have a tendency to be unconsciously biased in favor of traits similiar to our won, even such seemingly meaningless traits as...
In 1932, after nineteen years of research, Bartlett published his results.
As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer.
American people whether they agree that plants create the oxygen in the air, light travels faster than sound, or you cannot make radioactive milk safe by boiling it, you will get double-digit disagree...
Most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.