I have always thought that the ability to make good decisions, especially when time is short, is a very valuable life skill. Although it seems obvious that intelligent, well-educated people have many tools at hand to make good decisions, that is not always the case. History is full of catastrophic Read more…
An alert student brought to my attention an article about new approaches the medical community is taking to death and resuscitation. Traditionally, we have emphasized the need to provide immediate treatment to those whose hearts have stopped. However, by doing so, we may be making matters worse. It appears that the Read more…
NeuroSky, a Silicon Valley company, received a lot of press this week for incorporating what appears to be a mobile EEG scanner into gaming technology. One of the prototypes allows a person to don a Darth Vader suit, including a light saber that lights up when the person concentrates. NeuroSky Read more…
You may think I have far too much time on my hands (definitely not true as we enter the “midterm” phase of the quarter), but I took some time out to enjoy a feature on the BBC, one of my favorite news sources. The feature includes six different tests that Read more…
I love computers. My students are blissfully unaware of the challenges of typing a dissertation on a Smith-Corona portable electric typewriter or using a slide rule in a graduate statistics course. Still, I’d like to continue to think that the human brain can outperform computers, at least in some tasks. Read more…