QualiaSoup looks at various reasons for how superstitions arise and why, citing research that has been conducted over the last few decades, including the study of superstitious behavior in pigeons.
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Posts relating to science, skepticism, reason, and logic.
Big Think – Alva Noë: The Puzzle of Perception
A very interesting look at our perception of the world around us, and how our perception of what is occurring is based on sensory systems that don’t gather all the details we may think they do.
RiAus: A Week in Science
Check out this first release for 2013 of the Royal Institute of Australia’s Vodcast, A Week in Science.
Hosted by RiAus Director, Dr. Paul Willis, the three minute clip runs through a series of interesting developments in science over the past week.
Check it out:
Favourite Video of the Week: Neil deGrasse Tyson – Dream of Tomorrow
Uploaded last March, the video was produced by AJ Salas. Dream of Tomorrow features Neil deGrasse Tyson, renowned science advocate and astrophysicist.
Tyson’s speech is from his testimony at the Senate Science Committee in March, 2012 regarding the US governments’ budget for NASA.
Our Story in Under Two Minutes
The Universe in under two minutes is produced melodysheep, the same producer that brought you a long list of videos that auto-tune some of the finest minds in science today.
The video is spliced together from numerous programs with an original music track that is freely downloadable.
Check the link in the description.

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos – Episode Thirteen – Who Speaks of Earth?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6C9taivF40
Renowned astronomer and skeptic Dr. Carl Sagan plays both host and narrator of this 13-hour series discussing the origins of life, the human colonization of Space, and some of the pressing issues to our species and the planet on which we live. Sagan, with his sincere enthusiasm and genuine interest in bringing science to the public, covers the landscape of understanding; History, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Religion and the relationships of all these with human politics throughout history and across cultures
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was first aired on US Television in September of 1980; It was written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others.
Brought to you by The Science Foundation

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos – Episode Twelve – Encyclopedia Galactica
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DgWOlqa-iQ
Renowned astronomer and skeptic Dr. Carl Sagan plays both host and narrator of this 13-hour series discussing the origins of life, the human colonization of Space, and some of the pressing issues to our species and the planet on which we live. Sagan, with his sincere enthusiasm and genuine interest in bringing science to the public, covers the landscape of understanding; History, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Religion and the relationships of all these with human politics throughout history and across cultures
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was first aired on US Television in September of 1980; It was written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others.
Brought to you by The Science Foundation

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos – Episode Eleven – The Persistence of Memory
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkVXV_I6mRA
Renowned astronomer and skeptic Dr. Carl Sagan plays both host and narrator of this 13-hour series discussing the origins of life, the human colonization of Space, and some of the pressing issues to our species and the planet on which we live. Sagan, with his sincere enthusiasm and genuine interest in bringing science to the public, covers the landscape of understanding; History, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Religion and the relationships of all these with human politics throughout history and across cultures
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was first aired on US Television in September of 1980; It was written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others.
Brought to you by The Science Foundation

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos – Episode Ten – The Edge of Darkness
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ENNgO4z5c
Renowned astronomer and skeptic Dr. Carl Sagan plays both host and narrator of this 13-hour series discussing the origins of life, the human colonization of Space, and some of the pressing issues to our species and the planet on which we live. Sagan, with his sincere enthusiasm and genuine interest in bringing science to the public, covers the landscape of understanding; History, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Religion and the relationships of all these with human politics throughout history and across cultures
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was first aired on US Television in September of 1980; It was written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others.
Brought to you by The Science Foundation

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos – Episode Nine – The Lives of Stars
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7L6SZPxgNg
Renowned astronomer and skeptic Dr. Carl Sagan plays both host and narrator of this 13-hour series discussing the origins of life, the human colonization of Space, and some of the pressing issues to our species and the planet on which we live. Sagan, with his sincere enthusiasm and genuine interest in bringing science to the public, covers the landscape of understanding; History, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Religion and the relationships of all these with human politics throughout history and across cultures
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was first aired on US Television in September of 1980; It was written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the producers and David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others.
Brought to you by The Science Foundation