Most public libraries have the Ancestry.com Library Edition free to the registered library members. You will need to use the library computer system to log in and this gives you full access at no cost to you. I have used it for years to do my research which is primarily helping adoptees and birth mothers, birth…

The existing system, which acknowledges bias exists, but does nothing to stop it, is the real problem. If you have 40 studies, determining whether or not glasses are good for vision and you have to then spend additional time sifting through to determine where and if bias lies, then you’ve basically created a make work…

The added benefit of discovering you’re wrong, is that you can stop being wrong.

There was an episode of Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman a few weeks back. It stated they could find definite areas of the brain in which you could determine if a person tended toward Liberal or Conservative thought. It indicated that the brain is set at around 20 years of age, so I wondered what my brain…

Confirmation bias runs rampant online and offline. Numerous studies have been done, and continue to be done, that show we are a highly deluded species manipulated by a whole slew of cognitive biases and psychological traps set by our brain. Neuroscience, while it tends to get overhyped as a panacea, has vastly…

When you have a system based on the idea of trying to confirm results, odds are you’re going to end up finding whatever it is you’re looking for.

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Don’t think I’d call 8Cr13 “high quality”... Certainly good value for performance, and I trust Kershaw QC, but it’s generally cheap and sourced from China

... Jesus loon ...

If this isn’t sarcasm, I’m curious. Do people like you have a google news alert for Tim Tebow just so you can run to any sight that dares criticize him and leave angry comments?

I guarantee Tebow is 5 times the man you are Drew.

WHOA. Okay, i’m not going to lie, this thing looks slightly terrifying. And where are the rest of the buttons?? When I play Thief, I use like three different modifiers for my movement speed alone, nevermind all the various types of leaning I can do. Does this thing satisfy, if you need to map controls to multiple…

I didn’t mean to say you were bad. Just not nearly as good as you were in TFC.

Same here; I bought TF2, but I still enjoyed TFC far, far more (and sank far more of my high school life into that game than I want to admit, far outpacing Counterstrike 1.6)

It was the only FPS where I laughed when I got killed. The party balloons mod helped. After that Christmas update before it went F2P the game just got so bloated it barely ran anymore. I’d break for a few months, come back, and keep dying to weapons I’d never heard of. Then my community kind of died and that was the…

As long as you’re not one of the legion that keeps trying to add me on steam for my pile of rares, yes.

I hardly ever play TF2 I find my self regularly uninstalling it to save on disk space. I try it a few times a year if that.

@ZombieJaneway: Right, but for a popular science post, constantly spelling that out - particularly in the opening lede that has a strict word count - is really clunky and unnecessary.