A special case of information-selection by the human cognitive system. The brain seems to select the information worth to process, or most relevant, at every instant, in almost every context. This might produce some very specific phenomena such as what psychologists call “Change Blindness”.
Sometimes the more educated you are, the easier you are to fool. Â James Randi has been encouraging critical thinking for years, and his foundation continues his legacy…
Understanding technology shouldn’t be limited to processors and memory. Developments in DNA sequencing are already changing the face of medicine, and the pace of technology development in the field is staggering. Read on to understand the basics of DNA sequencing. It’s cool. That’s it, go home. Okay, follow this link to the full article…
The Mythbusters guys will take up the question: Can you really build a cannon out of bamboo, sulfur, charcoal and diamonds if you need to blast a Gorn like Capt. Kirk on Star Trek? Check out the hilarious preview below. The episode, which takes Monday, Dec 28 at 9pm…
I went through the CRU code below, and while I try to stay out of politics, this appears to be a programming issue with Politics embedded in it. I would hazzard a guess that this started as a cover-up from issues arising from bad programming choices, and unvetted data being used for a while…. Â And […]
Well, I guess that’s one myth debunked…? I wonder if we can get The Mythbusters on the case?
It’s getting to be the holiday season again…. Yes, I know I’m early, but this actually was meant as a post for the previous holiday season… So I figure, early is better than later… Nasa has a site where they use stellar pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, and make them into holiday themed cards…. […]
A people’s history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today To mark the 40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet we asked you to tell us your experiences of life online. Hundreds of you responded, and here we present an interactive documentary of your stories and videos, alongside our own research […]