#Phenomena

1 More mainstream scientists becoming interested in studying #UFOs/#UAP. Progress!"Ravi Kopparapu is a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland who studies planetary habitability, climate mod

Jukka Rintamäki

I was comparing what's been published in the Annual Review of Sociology and the Academy of Management Annals over the last four years or so. They're supposed to serve a

Occasionally I feel a pang in reading policy documents; I can't help but think, if this field digested McLuhan more it would be drastically more effective—not even in persuasion, but

Branko Milanovic

The new virus is a great confirmation of @nntaleb distinction btw phenomena where we can use the knowledge derived from Mediocristan and the phenomena that belong to Extremistan and where

It’s so clear that the way people engage “anti-blackness” as a concept is simply as “racism towards Black people” as opposed to an ontological framework through which we can understand

I need to set the record straight about something: Papa D designed and sent the 1974 Arecibo message. Carl Sagan was one of several folks he tested the message on,

Although a long shot, the coincidence of this particular language along with the chatter of an upcoming NYT piece wrt UFO crash retrievals coupled with large whiffs of desperation wrt

『𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴』

1/12) St. Thomas & Kant 《Essence and The Real》Got this request for a QRD on these two concepts from @Nix64261997 but I realised that it'd take more than a single

Out of curiosity, for you return missionaries: Did you have any sort of paranormal experience while on the mission? Adding myself to the Yes category. Mexico City has an abundance

Since im at my house i have noticed that im no longer paralyzed by fear going to bed, ever since my "experience" i have been afraid to close my eyes

Chloe Littzen, MSN, RN, AE-C

Okay, time for a theory rant. 1/ #nursinged we need to stop telling students they need to “fit” a theoretical model to their research/practice.All nurses are theorists, and as such,

Patrick S. Forscher

1970s social psychologists thought the field was in "crisis" https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.11.010Areas of concern included experimenter demand, lack of relevance to important social problems, overly simplistic and inadequate theor

Sick of people drawing mermaid tails as though they have knee joints in them, you RUBES, mermaids don’t have knees, the tail is an extension of their spine, did you

Why are the social sciences so bad at predicting and explaining phenomena? I often hear three answers to this question, and none of them are satisfactory.First, there is the appeal

Evolutionary bias, the tendency to think all scientific questions about human psychology and behaviour have evolutionary answers. Fun fact: I have been deemed a creationist for questioning particular evolutionary explanations

I think @vaushv has been the only one so far to untie the gordian knot around the internet phenomena know as "deer girl"1) Is she being unjustly harassed? Definitely.2) Does