BDNF and depression
Back in March I wrote a little bit about the convoluted relationships among stress, learning, and memory (here). About the same time, I wrote about the relations...
Learning as a refinement of exceptions
I was recently tutoring my 15-year-old half-half-nephew Kuba (James). They have to simplify rational expressions all the time. For example, they must figure out that 8(c2-4d2) / 12(c2+4d2-4cd) = ...
GR-like theory without black holes?
When I was reading the preprints today, I got upset by this one:Alexander Torres-Gomez, Kirill Krasnovso I must get some relief. They claim nothing less than having a the...
Picking winners
I just came across a post at fontblog where it is described how they picked a winner from 36 contributors: They take a dice and throw it once. The number shown is the number of further ...
Poetry and Space
I'll be introducing this event tomorrow. Come on over for an evening of scientific poetry...HTML.spacepoetry { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px}BODY.spacepoetry { P...
Time Travel in the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
Philosopher Paul Horwich, who has written a number of papers on time travel, made a similar argument prior to Novikov: that autoinfanticide did not present a problem for time travel - it merely showed that if y...
Change
It is disconcerting to be moved by a website.
Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
I learned about this very sad news from you - from the commenters at TRF.It's doubly shocking for me because my res...
Corinthian bronze
“ Man is the most composite of all creatures.... Well, as in the old burning of the Temple at Corinth, by the melting and intermixture of silver and gold and other metals a new compound more precious than any...
