Anders Rasmussen Blog

This was a great book. It had just the right balance of anecdotes, mathematics, scientific studies and history to offer the reader a compreh...

Courts today rely to a large extent on eyewitness testimony, both from the person who has been accused as well as from bystanders who happen...

I can't remember how but when I was 16 I came across this book and it changed my life. The title of Dawkins biography is "An appeti...

Previously, when I have blogged I have mostly written about other people's research. Yet sometimes our research group in Lund also publi...

I sometimes try to come up with analogies that can help people understand the benefit of vaccination. One that I believe ought to used more ...

I thought long about whether I should give this book 4 or 5 stars because there were certain aspect of the book that I did not like. Some ce...

Skepticism is very different from religion. One way in which it is that there is basically just one thing everyone agrees on, which is that ...

There are many alternatives if you are looking for books about WW2. I recently read the not so creatively named "second world war"...

I know that the problem of evil is not new. Indeed the question "why is there evil?" is one that religious people who believe in a...

We all depend on water. Without water we die. Unclean water kills about 3.4 million people per year and is among the leading causes of deat...

Proponents of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) claim that you can tell if someone is lying based on how they move their eyes. Thi...

I just stumbled upon a nice new initiative called frontiers for young minds . There is by now a relatively large collection of frontier jour...

From my list of book reviews it will be blatantly obvious that I like non-fiction, especially non-fiction science books. I therefore natural...

I frequently use my smartphone for typing emails as well as notes when I am listening to audiobooks. In the past I used the keyboard swiftk...

Richard Dawkins is an amazing scientist. I have always thought so and this first part in his autobiography trilogy do reinforce my favorable...

I am currently re-reading the Selfish Gene which is a book I think everyone should read. Few books are simultaneously beautifully written, c...

Up until a few tens of thousands years ago all humans lived in bands consisting of up to a few dussin people. Thus during almost our entire ...

The flynn effect refers to the substantial increase in average IQ seen in western societies since Binet started testing IQ scores in the 19t...

"Statistics is like a high caliber gun, very useful in the right hands but potentially disastrous if misused." This book will not ...

Are you also annoyed with the fact that you cannot highlight text or insert comments in certain pdf files i.e., pdf/a? The following two ste...

I just finished reading a recent review by Dapne Bavelier about the benefits of playing action video games. This review does not address th...

Since my life involves many tasks that are very tedious, but can be done in an incognizant state of mind I tend to listen to many podcasts ...

I will start by admitting that I am a fan of Richard Muller . Before I even went to university I watched every lecture in his "Physics ...

In one of the most memorable examples in The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris reflects on his own thoughts after his wife told him that another...