Sean Landis

Episode 31: Fallacies | Elucidations - http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs...

Delocated: Dog Mayor Ad - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Defending Cognitive Enhancement - http://www.theatlantic.com/technol...

Podcast on Fallacies - http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs...

RT @mulaney: I think the "Treasue Buddies" are friends in real life. What do you guys think? Do you think they are? I do.

Errol Morris’s short documentary on Competitive Eater El Wingador - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

[H]ow reliable are the various cognitive mechanisms we use for establishing different kinds of truth? …[S]ubjective experience, in all its forms, is a very unreliable detector of objective reality. [T]he vast bulk of [research research undermines] any confidence we might feel that our intuitive judgments are effective truth-trackers. - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

In lieu of Madonna's age jokes, please make memorial contributions to #OkThisJokeIsOver.

If you can’t say it clearly, you don’t understand it yourself. - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

  Breaking Bad RPG - CollegeHumor - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

Things I’ve loved this week #3: Series 2, episode 3 of Sherlock. (via breachthesurface) - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

fuckyeahchriskuroda: Chris Kuroda is the fifth member of Phish! Things I’ve loved this week #2: Episode 4 of Analyze Phish. - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

Things I’ve loved this week #1: The Grey. (via exultati0n) - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

I actually believe very strongly that we are not all automatically awesome. We have to be good people and if we aren’t acting like good people then we AREN’T GOOD PEOPLE. This idea that all people are born perfect, it’s crap. We’re all flawed people born into a flawed world and the only thing we can do to make the world better is to fight every... - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

Almost all those who have engaged in any form of inquiry have been wrong and misguided. That is our predicament: fallible investigators start from the conclusions of their fallible predecessors. Yet even the dedicated mathematical astronomers of the late Middle Ages who explored the complicated details of the equant point in Ptolemaic theory... - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

I actually believe very strongly that we are not all automatically awesome. We have to be good people and if we aren’t acting like good people then we AREN’T GOOD PEOPLE. This idea that all people are born perfect, it’s crap. We’re all flawed people born into a flawed world and the only thing we can do to make the world better is to fight every... - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

Ethics Taken Seriously - http://www.tnr.com/article...

ladysmith: softerworld: - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

For Prospective Ph.D. Students - http://sophiawong.info/mentori...

sporty (by kyle) - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

We assume that more information will make it easier to find the cause, that seeing the soft tissue of the back will reveal the source of the pain, or at least some useful correlations. Unfortunately, that often doesn’t happen. Our habits of visual conclusion-jumping take over. All those extra details end up confusing us; the more we know, the less... - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

scottgairdner: Seppititup! - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

[M]uch of what biomedical researchers conclude in published studies—conclusions that doctors keep in mind when they prescribe antibiotics or blood-pressure medication, or when they advise us to consume more fiber or less meat, or when they recommend surgery for heart disease or back pain—is misleading, exaggerated, and often flat-out wrong. - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

(via Bill Roberts’ blog) - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

Prince Fielder Wondering If He Has Truly Free Agency | The Onion - http://www.theonion.com/article...

Is the Unexamined Life Worth Living? - http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog...

John Mulaney - http://seanland.tumblr.com/post...

One of the most fascinating yet elusive aspects of cultural change is the way certain ideals and arguments acquire an almost self-evident power at particular times, just as others come to seem irrelevant or antiquated and largely disappear from public debate. - http://ourignorance.tumblr.com/post...

Prince Fielder Unsure If His Agency's Truly Free - http://www.theonion.com/article...