What Is It Like To Be A Baby?: Being a baby is both awesome and terrible!
Basically, when you focus on something it’s like a spotlight. You’re implicitly excluding everything except what you’re looking at. When a baby looks at something, he doe…
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Why Russians Don’t Get Depressed | Wired Science
Why Russians Don’t Get Depressed | Wired Science: I would hazard a guess that the reason Russians do so much better than Americans is because Americans tend to think of themselves as in some great story and they are playing the main part.
If you list…
Ritalin in the Water and Misinterpretations
Ritalin in the Water and Misinterpretations: Jonah Lehrer writes in the linked article about some surprising things he found, just from looking into an internet troll’s vitriolic comment. I’m taking a different tack than Jonah on this, however: …
The Itch of Curiosity | Wired Science
The Itch of Curiosity | Wired Science: A short piece about research into curiosity. Funny that people stopped researching it in the first place.
And it’s interesting to me because I’d never thought of curiosity as an emotion before, but it totally …
OS Manga… who knew?
I was reading this article about lamest computer/software mascots and learned about OS Tan. Who knew there was an entire subculture surrounding the anthropomorphising of operating systems? To quote the first link: Windows flavors are most often depicted as saucer-eyed girls with underwear management issues. … But we’re partial to Windows 98 SE, who seems [...]
