Here are a few things that I found interesting today: for the first time, computer intelligence predicts human visual interest “Scientists have just come several steps closer to understanding change blindness — the well studied failure of humans to detect seemingly obvious changes to scenes around them — with new Read more…
We have been very fortunate in the past few years to have experienced few glitches in our technology at home. Yes, there was the occasional hard drive crash, but we have learned to back up everything with super redundancy. So the two-day Internet outage we just experienced was definitely out Read more…
Here’s some of what I found interesting today: A paper on psychopaths delayed by legal foo More than 3 years after initially passing peer review and being accepted, a controversial paper addressing how to diagnose psychopathy and whether past criminal behavior is central to the condition has been published in Read more…
Here is what I am reading now that finals week is over! laser pointers and your eyes Barbara McLaughlan, campaigns manager at the Royal National Institute of Blind People, said: “Laser pointers are deceptive. They look safe but they can be very dangerous, particularly ones available on the internet which Read more…
It is a busy week, but here is something fun to read: Cholesterol levels might be controlled by brain circuitry “When your stomach growls and you have the urge to reach for the nearest snack, it is, in a way, your tummy talking. Those signals are in part sparked by Read more…