I suppose the tabclosing posts are often a miscellany, but the last couple have been kind of thematic. This one isn’t.
- Your Logical Fallacy Is – A pretty website that lets you easily reference and link to a specific logical fallacy, with definitions and examples.
- The 12 Cognitive Biases that Prevent You from Being Rational – io9 article about twelve distinct cognitive biases.
- Spiral Into Horror: A Review of Uzumaki by Junji Ito – I want to read this book.
- The Peshtigo Fire – Devastating fire that has been largely forgotten because it took place on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
- How Not to Talk to Your Kids – New York magazine article about the psychological research which shows that children should be praised for effort and not intelligence.
- Amazing Rope Trick – A demonstration using a rope linked with carabiners that, among other surprising things, shows the difference between abelian and non-abelian groups.
- The Willow that Wasn’t – Moebius’s unused designs for the movie Willow.
- Robert Hooke’s London – A blog about the history and science of Restoration London
- First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature – Just what it says.
- Blockbuster Video was a Thing that Existed – Snarktastic rant about how terrible Blockbuster was.
- And this delightful video in which Steve Almond spends ten minutes dissecting the “manifest wretchedness” of Toto’s “Africa.”