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Category - The Brain

WHY WE BELIEVE WACKY THINGS (PART I)

They say that seeing is believing, but new research suggests that isn’t so. To the contrary, believing is seeing. We do not…

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WHY WE BELIEVE WACKY THINGS (PART II)

This is a continuation of Billy’s previous blog…Really smart and quite sane people can believe not-so-smart and way-too-crazy things…

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WHY WE BELIEVE WACKY THINGS, (PART III)

This is Part III of Billy’s previous blog…As I write this morning two monsters, brothers named Said and Cherif Kouachi, are…

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THE POLITICS OF CRAZY BELIEFS

DISCLAIMER: Billy Riggs does not speak on (or even address) the topic below in any of his public presentations, but his interests are…

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THE DAY I MET MOTHER TERESA (REALLY!)

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT’S REALLY A MIRACLE?In August of 2014, doctors pronounced dead a Brazilian man named Valdelucio Gonclaves..

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BELIEFS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

DISCLAIMER: Billy Riggs does not speak on (or even address) the topic below in any of his public presentations, …

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TAKE THE RED PILL

The thesis of the cult-classic film series, The Matrix, is that the world we all perceive is actually a computer simulation fed into the brains of people who are…

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SETTING A NEW STANDARD

On Oct. 12, 2019, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge became the first human being in history to run the marathon in under 2 hours, finishing with 20…

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