by John Khoury | Feb 18, 2015 | Resources
Personality is your essence. In Psych 101, I remember being surprised by this, thinking personality was psychology. But no, you have a personality and then you develop (developmental psychology), you learn things (behaviorism), you socialize (social psychology), you...
by John Khoury | Feb 18, 2015 | Resources
I’ll call this the third in Robert Wright’s Trilogy. He shows us that just like all organisms on the planet, religion itself also developed through the process of evolution. As God is an invention of mankind, the Evolution of God runs in lock step with our...
by John Khoury | Feb 18, 2015 | Everyday phenomena explained by Quanology, Resources
Here we see Larry David complaining about how Christians want you to be Christian too. He compare their love of Jesus to his love of lobster, and argues that he does not try to convert his friends to lobster eaters. In reality this is not true. He does want you to...
by John Khoury | Feb 17, 2015 | Resources
Subtitle: Sex & the Evolution of Human Nature. What’s more interesting than that? Ridley’s The Red Queen is about how much of our evolutionary development was an attempt to beat the burden of parasites. Sex is the secret weapon for all sexually...
by John Khoury | Feb 17, 2015 | Resources
In the games we know: football, baseball, tennis, etc, one side wins and the other loses. They are zero-sum games. Is life a game? Well, you could argue that we have goals and either we get them or we don’t. But really we sort of have a smorgasbord of goals,...
by John Khoury | Nov 26, 2014 | The Book
“Drugs is all around you” is supposed to be a funny line but really does hit the nail on the head. In Quanology, I try to draw the line between things that help us in life and those things that hurt us. Nature intended the good things to feel good and the...
by John Khoury | Nov 26, 2014 | Everyday phenomena explained by Quanology, Resources
Dating sites hold a huge wealth of information on human behavior. We may say we are this, or want to be that, but data takes our opinions out of the loop and shows us the facts. Mate preferences are a big piece of the puzzle when understanding people. What do men...
by John Khoury | Nov 14, 2014 | Podcast
We had Emma Johnson on the show today for a very insightful half hour on marriage, money, and divorce. I think a lot of women (and men) are scared of where divorce will leave them financially and Emma has made it her mission to help women stay afloat in one of the...
by John Khoury | Nov 14, 2014 | Podcast
Jackie Lesser is our guest on the show today to talk publicly for the first time about her struggle with her daughter’s eating disorder. It started when she was told to watch her diet to prevent acne, but as she started to lose weight, she got obsessive about...
by John Khoury | Nov 4, 2014 | Podcast
Ever thought about starting your own restaurant? Who hasn’t? Well, not Jani, but John has. We have Mike Maroni on the show to tell us his restaurant story. Mike has been in the restaurant business for more than 20 years. His unique ideas provided some tough...
