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March 18, 2011 02:48 pm PDT

Japan nuclear crisis and the belief instinct: Tomorrow on Bloggingheads

Tomorrow morning, I'll be back on Bloggingheads—the video chat that pairs two science bloggers, and lets you in on their conversation. I'll be talking about the Japanese nuclear crisis. If you've been reading my posts on BoingBoing, you'll have probably heard most of my side of the conversation already, but you should definitely tune in to hear the guy I'm chatting with. Jesse Bering is a research psychologist who studies the human instinct to believe in the supernatural. He's got a lot of interesting things to say about how this instinct plays out in disasters, and how it affects even those of us who don't believe. Cool stuff! Our conversation will go up tomorrow morning, on the Bloggingheads site....


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