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  • ‘Critical Thinking’ without Memorization? It Doesn’t Exist

    ‘Critical Thinking’ without Memorization? It Doesn’t Exist1

    To grow in knowledge, you need to have a foundation of memorized facts on which to build. Think about the study of history. If you haven’t memorized certain important dates, or rulers and their reigns, or the years of major periods, it’s difficult to adequately situate new historical information or analyses that you encounter. Another

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  • Does reactance theory explain the rise of Donald Trump?

    Does reactance theory explain the rise of Donald Trump?0

    Psychological reactance, a theory pioneered by the late Jack Brehm,  is based on the idea that humans tend to respond negatively to restrictions on their autonomy or freedom of choice.? Brehm summed up the theory as follows: [P]eople become motivationally aroused by a threat to or elimination of a behavioral freedom. This motivational state is

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  • Home-cooking is Out, Restaurants are In

    Home-cooking is Out, Restaurants are In0

    Last year, Americans were astounded when it was revealed that spending at restaurants had surpassed grocery store spending for the first time in history. Such an occurrence wasn’t a flash in the pan, either. Spending on meals out has continued to outpace grocery store spending over the last year, a recent Quartz article noted. As

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  • Physicist Pioneers new Method for Making Chocolate

    Physicist Pioneers new Method for Making Chocolate0

    What if I told you that chocolate actually tastes better when you take fat out of it? You wouldn’t believe me, right? Well, it appears to have happened. Rongjia Tao, a physicist from Temple University in Philadelphia, appears to have stumbled onto a new method for making healthier and tastier chocolate. The secret? Run the

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  • Unfortunately, Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

    Unfortunately, Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter0

    Human beings today now have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. That’s what a study conducted by Microsoft last year found. A goldfish loses focus after nine seconds. In our age of smartphones, however, the average person today can only focus for eight seconds. That’s a dramatic change from 2000, when the average human

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  • Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare

    Relativism and the Danger of Half-Digested Shakespeare1

    This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.                                Shakespeare – Hamlet (sic) These words from arguably Shakespeare’s greatest play were quoted

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