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I have to admit that I have selfish reasons for being glad that the book Sleights of Mind by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde is such a well written and researched piece of work. It makes me foolishly happy to know that there are others out there who are excited by what we can learn [...]
Continue Reading →I’m reading the work of Robert Kurzban, an Associate Professor of Psychology who has written about hypocrisy. He argues that we are capable of believing contradictory things because we are like iPhones. Our brains are made of lots of specialized “Apps” that are good at doing one thing really well. Its perfectly possible for the [...]
Continue Reading →I’m just reading a review of Mark Stevenson’s book An Optimist’s Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets out to Answer ‘What’s Next?’ in The Guardian. I found this quote, where the work of Ray Kurzweil is being discussed, very interesting, “Kurzweil holds that all technologies increase in performance exponentially – as computers have in [...]
Continue Reading →This is an elegant demonstration of a principle that is well known in certain areas of magic and illusion design. Play the movie while looking at the small white speck in the center of the ring. Try to keep looking at the white speck. Motion silences awareness of color changes from Jordan Suchow on Vimeo. [...]
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This article was commissioned for the NESTA Inspire Me collection some years back. I’m just re-reading Feynman and thinking about how our education system will deal with the cuts to both Arts and Science and thought I’d post it. Richard P. Feynman, one of the great physicists and communicators of science of the twentieth century, [...]
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