Scientific method employed on the moon

Before Galileo, and ever since Aristotle, many people believed that heavier objects fell faster than lighter objects. That might be true where air impedes light objects, such as feathers, but many people believed that even in the absence of air heavier objects always fell faster, and it was commonly assumed that, heavier cannonballs fall faster than light cannonballs, even in the absence of any scientific data. The beauty of the scientific method comes front and center in this simple experiment conducted on the surface of the moon by Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott.

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Personality appears to predict politics

One of my favorite books ever is Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior, by Geoffrey Miller (2009). I have lately been interested in trying to locate lower level personality differences that are predictive of political attitudes, and Miller offers such an analysis in chapter 9. To begin the chapter, Miller…

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