The famous Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons 1999 experiment. In his study, the subjects watched a video of a group passing a basketball around. Half the group wore white shirts. The other half wore black. [ Read More … ]
“Chinese whispers (or telephone in the United States) is a game played around the world, in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last [ Read More … ]
Inerrancy and the recent non-apocalyptic discussion at the annual Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) As a biblical scholar who deals with the messy parts of the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament), I came away with one [ Read More … ]
Household Battles: An Infographic We all have grips over whos turn it is to do the washing up, that someones left the lid off the toothpaste or dumped dirty clothes on the floor. But a [ Read More … ]
Kevin Reynolds Achieves Resurrection Biblical epics seem all the rage at the moment, with Ridley Scott filming Exodus and Darren Aronofsky working on Noah. It was only a matter of time before somebody turned their [ Read More … ]
Recovering from inerrancy in the second half of life I met an old friend for lunch yesterday. He was, once upon a time, firmly ensconced in a career in the ueber-conservative world of “Evangelical orthodoxy”–and [ Read More … ]
Secret confessions of a barista HAVE you ever bought a coffee and felt sorry for the poor soul who’s trying to make 3 million flat whites in 10 minutes flat?News.com.au spoke to a barista who makes [ Read More … ]