by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
Much of what you know, you know without knowing how you know it. For example, when you compare the smiles in these two pictures, you know, without thinking about why, that one is real and one is fake. Differences such as how much each person’s eyes are “smiling”...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
It was January 2004. We’d made it about halfway to the relative safety of the U.S. Embassy traveling on “IED Alley,” the highway that connected Camp Victory to Baghdad. The Iraqis’ name for the divided highway was “Death Street” because of the high...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
Science fiction isn’t fiction any more. You really can change the world around you just by thinking. Here’s how. In the unimaginably weird world of subatomic particles such as electrons (carriers of electric current), individual particles exist in many places at the...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
**This article was originally published on Dr. Eric Haseltine’s Psychology Today Column** I was a nerdy kid who got bullied a lot. So, even after I grew to an athletic six feet at 16, I still got nervous whenever I encountered a tough-looking guy. I’d feel the...
by Dr. Eric Haseltine | Nov 17, 2017 | Personal
I’m expecting all kinds of criticism for this test. Some people will argue it’s overly simplistic. Others will assert it’s misleading–even dangerous—to suggest that you can assess intelligence –at least sort of–through a one second test. So, I’m not...
