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Information overload, the early years – The Boston Globe: I feel like I refer to James Burke a lot. He had the show Connections, the first season of which talked about information overload and the problems modern humans would have as they moved forward…

I was thinking about humor this morning, wondering what use laughter has for humans. I’ve long wondered this, actually. I never really bought the whole “social glue” idea, that laughter is just emergent as a way to bond. Even though humor plays a role in relationships, it still doesn’t describe how it started. Namely, why [...]

Washing machine carries its own beat: This is great, I have noticed this stuff before.
Also, the reason it sounds like a beat is explained (or at least described) in this Radiolab episode about language and music (the “sometimes behaves so strangely�…

Superhero or supervillain: Which lurks inside you? : So a question: did you read this and think, “I don’t think I’d be corrupted”? If so, that probably means you would.
And if now you’re thinking, “He doesn’t know what he’s talking abou…

Baby Taco!
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Stars Wars weather — Kit·blog — Cristian ‘Kit’ Paul

What Does Technology Want? – Radiolab: A couple thoughts while listening to this:
If you pick something like ‘telephone’ or ‘spoon’ as your endpoint, you ignore the fact that each of those is also the step to another piece of technology. It’s…