Includes stuff about anything where feedback causes the system to adapt, including the systems of nature, those that are man-made or cultural, and those of the human mind.
The CMAA probably seemed like a good idea in 1954, providing only wholesome American values to impressionable young minds. But new research suggests that, while the main idea behind it (limiting the exposure of young minds to violence) was correct, the implementation was way off the mark: The findings, which are reported in the Journal …
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The hardest thing about remembering something is remembering it long enough to remember it. Okay, that sentence is a little convoluted, but that doesn’t affect it’s accuracy. 🙂 The hardest part about remembering something is keeping it in your head for more than a few seconds in the first place — once you can do …
There’s something I’ve never understood about people: how some (most?) people will adopt a specific position about a subject, and thereafter simply won’t be able to comprehend any argument to the contrary.
This is a fascinating story in it’s own right, but I really love the last sentence of it, on someone else with a similar problem: “It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying.” I couldn’t agree more. 😉
I’ve always felt a certain kinship to the character of Sherlock Holmes. Not for his ability to notice the most minute of details, or his reasoning skills, or his undeniable flair for disguise… admirable as those and many of his other traits may be, it’s his moods between cases that I’ve always identified with.
Fascinating piece on how reading is actually done.
Boing Boing has a fascinating entry on technology-induced synaesthesia today. Human vision, and visual interpretation of non-visual data, has always fascinated me. This goes one step further, because it mentions using this sort of thing to overcome physical sensory defects (such as inner-ear problems affecting balance).