Fashion news! We’re giving a makeover to the website for the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS) and its conjoined clubs, The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists™ and The Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists™. LFHCfS began in 2001 with its first member (psychologist Steven Pinker), and became so popular that it quickly grew beyond the bounds of […]
Tag: truth
The truth is very odd, isn’t it
“It’s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think […]
Psychological Truth(s)
This is how professor Richard Feynman, BSc., Ph.D. described the process of validating a scientific proposition – which he liked to call “A guess”. “It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is – if it […]
Lie detection via earlobe
This invention promises to detect lies, a task at which virtually all other lie-detectors prove unreliable. The secret lies partially (but only partially!) in the novel use of the earlobe, as shown in this technical drawing from US patent application 11/734,171, “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF FALSE STATEMENTS”, filed in April 1997 by John […]