eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 16 2008 | research, information, science
Mark Changizi argues that our visual perception has evolved to anticipate the future. While the actual news isn't as sexy as it sounds, it's still really intriguing stuff.
Quoted: “Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future,” says Changizi. “The converging lines toward a vanishing point are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward—as we would in the real world, where the door frame seems to bow out as we move through it—and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant.”
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2008 | research, science, technology, ethics, Olivia Judson
A clearly written exploration of the science behind newly passed British legislation allowing for the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos (under specific conditions).
Quoted: Birth, life, death and extinction: an evolutionary biologist's guide to natural selection.
ShareViewed: 15 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 01 2008 | research, news, Stonehenge, England, landmarks, travel, tourism
Exploring the mystery of Stonehenge by digging.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 28 2007 | science, news, research, vision
This is pretty fascinating. We've learned that blind people may be able to "see" with other organs wired into the brain.
Quoted: Blind people can now use their tongues to see, albeit crudely, thanks to prototype technology that involves licking arrays of electrodes attached to video cameras.
ShareViewed: 8 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2007 | research, children
Scientific American publishes an interesting article on raising children. Focus on teaching kids a good work ethic and how to apply effort to get smart. Don't reinforce the notion that they are innately intelligent.
ShareViewed: 10 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2007 | google, yahoo, microsoft, search, business, research
A somewhat simplistic study points to better click through rates on Yahoo than on Google.
Quoted: Yahoo Inc.'s search engine gets a higher percentage of users to click on the results of a query than market leader Google Inc.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 13 2007 | research, search, reference
Quoted: There's far more to great reference tools than Wikipedia, here's a guide to twenty great ones!
ShareViewed: 13 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2007 | technology, research, computer, news
Reshaping the architecture of memory.
Quoted: If an idea being kicked around in an I.B.M. lab is correct, electronic devices could potentially hold 10 to 100 times more data in the same amount of space.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 31 2007 | research, work, toread
Class syllabus for "The Structure of Information Networks," replete with many helpful links.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 24 2007 | research, psychology, gender
A fascinating speech exploring gender roles and how they have come to be. I expect this will be considered controversial by many, and obvious to some.
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