Author Archives: davidbdale

Driver Accused of Injuring Brazil Cyclists By MYRNA DOMIT and J. DAVID GOODMAN Published: March 2, 2011, New York Times SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The monthly bicycle ride known as Critical Mass began in the southern city of Porto Alegre … Continue reading →

We Only THINK We Learn Better Using our “Preferred Learning Style” This claim is far from proven, but on the other hand, there’s very little proof that we DO in fact learn better when using our “preferred learning style.” The … Continue reading →

I try to keep my politics in check in the classroom and just be upset about everything no matter which side of the House it comes from, so I apologize that this article has Republicans in the title and wants … Continue reading →

I hope you’re finding me helpful, not only an irritant. If you hate your topic already and need something counterintuitive—and quickly!—and no other suggestion I’ve offered appeals to you, here’s another I’m working on that might turn out to be … Continue reading →

Is it possible long exposure to “procedural TV shows” like CSI has tainted jurors’ expectations? Do citizens sitting on juries expect investigators to have DNA results in 20 minutes, or to employ extremely high-tech methods to catching and convicting every … Continue reading →

If you don’t know already, the team of journalists responsible for the book Freakonomics and the New York Times column of the same name, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, have greatly influenced my thinking about thinking. They have … Continue reading →

Consider: the darkening ease, the brightening trouble; the pleasure pleasure because it was, the pain pain because it shall be; the glad acts grown proud, the proud acts growing stubborn; the panting and trembling towards a being gone, a being … Continue reading →

It’s 5:30 Sunday morning, so of course I’m up, thinking counterintuitively. This time I’m not alone. The broadcaster on WIP is interviewing Tobias (Toby) Moskowitz about common misconceptions in sports. Home field advantage isn’t about staying home while the visitors … Continue reading →

Two Mississippi men spent a combined 30 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. They were separately charged with sexually assaulting and murdering two 3-year-old girls — in two separate crimes — two years apart. The pathologist who conducted … Continue reading →

Into all this counterintuitivity about cancer detection and training doctors to be better predictors of nascent tumors, I would be remiss if I did not introduce an update on the amazing and truly bizarre ability of dogs to sniff out … Continue reading →