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>For part 3, we evaluate the history of the third kind of evidence in cognitive neuroscience:A normal subject is asked to do a task. While they are doing the task, a scientist observes their brain in action.For many readers, this will sound like fMRI, where a person lies down in a huge machine, is instructed…
>AIG bailout = 178 billion AIG bonuses = 165 million As xkcd points out, there is a big difference between a million and a billion. Many others have weighed in on the same point, the bonuses are only a minute fraction of what AIG got in bailout money. Others, Obama included, have pointed out that…
This chapter deals with an enduring theme in my own thoughts, and a tension between the practice of science and the limits of the human mind. Those pieces of evidence which we naturally find convincing do not do real work in science. To understand why, it is important to understand both what makes some types…
>Nas’ new video about Fox News (Sly Fox). I don’t think I would have ever heard the above line, but it is there, and other good ones too.
> I’ve got something for you…Watch this video, then bookmark this site, I am sure you will be backhttp://cleanupdata.com/#video It is called Magic/Replace, and it is basically a smart spreadsheet program that knows what you want to do with your spreadsheet. You just have to watch the video.
>From Dave Eggers and his type of folks, their internet magazine is called McSweeneysIt contains an unsung, yet hilarious group of lists.Here is a list of my favorite listsOne of my favorites is:Implausible ClaimsMade by Vanilla Ice in His 1990 No. 1 Hit “Ice Ice Baby.”
