Date |
Topic |
Related
Links |
Monday, September 30
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Radio Stories:
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Wednesday, October 2 | |
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Friday, October 4
| | Radio Stories:
- Bias Isn't Just A Police Problem, It's A Preschool Problem, (9/28/2016)
- The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook, (9/20/2013)
- Mall Counterterrorism Files ID Mostly Minorities, (9/8/2011)
- Under Suspicion At The Mall Of America, (9/7/2011)
- One Man Says No To Harsh Interrogation Techniques, (2/14/2011)
- The Good
Doctor, (11/13/2009)
- Report Finds Forensic Evidence Lacking (2/27/2009)
- Call For Forensics Overhaul Linked To 'CSI' Effect, (2/19/2009)
- NPR Ombudsman On Charges Of Election Bias, (11/12/2008)
- Teaching Business Students To Be Skeptics, (10/23/2008)
- Politics: It's All In What You Hear, (9/30/2008)
- Political
Ads May Not Tell Whole Story (7/27/2008)
- Sex
Education and the Bush Administration, (1/22/2003)
- Gay/Straight
Club (1/23/2000) Beliefs affecting interpretation of a statement
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Monday, October 7
| | Radio Stories:
- Will We Ever Know How Moderate Drinking Affects Our Health? (Science Friday), (6/22/2018)
- In Memory Training Smackdown, One Method Dominates, (10/23/2017)
- The FDA Will Decide Whether 26 Ingredients Count As Fiber, (10/23/2017)
- Explaining The Confusion Behind The Limited Travel Ban Guidelines, (7/1/2017)
- Will Doctors Soon Be Presecribing Video Games for Mental Health?, (8/10/2015), [empirical evidence]
- Compression Clothing: Not The Magic Bullet For Performance, (3/30/2015)
- Companies Revisit 'Rank and Yank' of 1980's, (12/2/2013)
- Medicaid Makes 'Big Difference' In Lives, Study Finds, (7/7/2011)
- Supreme
Court To Hear School Strip-Search Case,
(4/21/2009)
- One
Theory: Theories Rarely Work, (5/21/2009)
- Behavioral
economics is catching on, (5/19/2009)
- Philosophy
Talk (Science versus Pseudoscience), (3/2/2008)
- The
Republican War on Science (9/15/2005) (this is more about the
operational definition of science)
- Bad
Astronomy ... Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology
to the Moon
Landing 'Hoax' with Philip Plait on Technation (no
link to the story yet), (May 14, 2002).
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Wednesday, October 9 | |
Radio Stories:
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Wednesday, October 9
| | Radio Stories:
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Friday, October 11 | |
Radio Stories:
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Monday, October 14 | |
Radio
Stories:
- Americans Spend Billions On Diets And Detoxes. Do They Work?, (11/30/2018)
- Researchers Explore How To Reduce U.S. Gun Violence Deaths, (10/11/2015)
- The New Science Behind Our 'Unfair' Criminal Justice System, (7/6/15)
- In A Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are As Relevant As Ever, (5/27/2015) (encoding information)
- Paintballing the Boss: Office Team-Building Exercises Gone Bad, (7/8/2014) (you need to understand why things are they way they are to solve a problem)
- The System Supplying America's Chickens Pits Farmer Vs. Farmer (Metacognition and Better than average belief), (2/20/2014)
- The Death Of Facts In An Age Of 'Truthiness', (4/29/2012)
- The Facts on the Fact Checking Community, (12/19/2011)
- Reviewing
Science On The Big Screen, (6/26/2009)
- Military
Psychologist Says Harsh Tactics Justified, (5/4/2009)
- Psychologists
Dispute Claim In Interrogation Memos, (4/21/2009)
- Is Conventional Wisdom About Abusers True?, (3/18/2009)
- How Effective Are Multi-Vitamins? (2/10/2009)
- Scientists Shed Light On Festive Medical Myths, (12/25/2009)
- A Myth Examined: Can Turkey Make You Tired?, (11/27/2008)
- Japanese
Foot Pad Is Latest Health Fad (8/18/2008)
- Ori
and Rom Brafman, author of Sway: The Irresistable Pull of Irrational
Behavior, from Technation, (7/29/2008)
- Big
lawsuit settlements (8/7/2001)
on testing claim
- RX
drug costs (7/23/2001) on Assessing Claims and appeal to fear
- Suicide
study (7/16/2001) Assessing Claims about Suicide
- Health
Claims (6/14/2001)
Health and Questionable Claims:
- Youth
violence (1/17/2001) on Assessing Claims
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Wednesday, October 16
| EXAM: Chapter 1 (Introduction and Research Methods)
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Friday, October 18 | | |