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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Can Computers Be Funny?
WHAT do you get when you cross a fragrance with an actor?Answer: a smell Gibson. This is the kind of thing that passes for humor from a computer. It’s the kind of joke that would be a knee slapper … Continue reading
We only see changes in ourselves in retrospect
From the New York Times, an article on how we see how different we were in the past, but we don’t expect ourselves to change much in the future. “Middle-aged people — like me — often look back on our … Continue reading
Posted in Neuroscience and Psychology
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Learning while sleeping: infants do it
At one time there was a mania for learning while sleeping. People played recordings of physics lectures while they slept in hopes of learning during the brain’s down-time. Later science showed that these techniques did not work. There is a … Continue reading
Posted in How Life Begins, Science and Medicine, Sleep
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Seth’s Blog: The attention paradox
Seth Godin on the often antithetical demands of messaging in the information age. Smart advertisers, though, are realizing that they have to make content that people decide is worth watching. Some have very good indeed at making media that’s so … Continue reading
5 Big Discoveries About Personal Effectiveness in 2012
From Psychology Today’s website, an article listing 5 things you can do to be more effective. • We don’t know ourselves as well as we think, so when we are not doing well at something, get feedback from others. • … Continue reading
Why the obsession with apocalypse? The future is bright.
On this New Year’s Day, it is fitting to ask: Why are so many people obsessed with apocalypses? Why do so many people not only believe ridiculous things like the Mayan Apocalypse, but seem to want to believe them? On … Continue reading