I love it when scientists talk dirty…
…and when they make loose with a few orders of magnitude. Rouder and Morey critique some recent work by Bem on “Feeling for the Future”: “[O]ur assessment is that Bem’s experiments, collectively,...
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I’m almost back from 2010… here one more from the road, to make you smile or win your fellow linguist’s !. Lyrics and fabulous youtube recording (what, no video?) are (c) Christine Collins: let me have...
View ArticleOn parenting and love and expectations
An interesting parenting discussion is underway on Quora. There’s primarily a focus in these conversations on performance, knowledge, and skill; with a few asides on inspiration and creation. The...
View ArticleMapping global communities
We’ve been working on a few different visualizations of the OLPC community around the world. The most enjoyable and colorful is olpcMAP, a collaborative mashup designed by Nick Doiron that blossomed...
View Article… Synergy Epitome
From a world of transient characters and jargon, a vignette about synergy and beauty: Two friends program and voice a two-minute RPG. The game becomes somewhat popular. Someone posts a very literal,...
View ArticleA patent alternative: aaaaaagmmnrr
Hooke liked to note discoveries he had made before he had found time to exlpain and prove his discoveries. He used the simple mechanich of anagramming an entire phrase: The true Mathematical and...
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