There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique — called the memory palace — and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him.
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Embracing intellectual messiness goes against our instincts and training as educated people, but writers and artists should accept and understand it as crucial to the creative process. Transcript: Malcolm Gladwell: This I think is true, not just of writers, but of anyone who is in a creative space, that you have to reverse the normal [...]
Intelligence represents an interaction between genes and environment. Genes for abilities may not be totally additive, a concept known as emergenesis. Hundreds of genes may contribute a small amount of variance to a particular trait like reading disability. By determining a child’s genetic risk, interventions specific to a particular disability can be put in place.
How can you make your meals more filling so that you aren’t tempted by second helpings? With the aid of some model stomachs Dr Yan serves up the answer.
Presented by Tamar Gendler, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Twenty Six Videos videos Duration: 19 hours 46 minutes Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature pairs central texts from Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) with recent findings in cognitive science and related fields. The [...]
Unbelievable these tiny little devils. Whatever we forget on the kitchen table, these guys take it. Now we tried it with a dead gecko we found in garden and an observation camera. Looks like time is money for this little workers and Geico needs a new mascot to tell you how much money you can [...]
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