October 10, 2012
October 5, 2012
5'6 Aquille Carr Is STILL The Most Exciting Player In High School!
Effortless movements are critical, either in sports or martial arts
May 22, 2012
April 25, 2012
April 18, 2012
April 14, 2012
April 13, 2012
April 10, 2012
SixthSense Technology
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
April 7, 2012
April 4, 2012
March 17, 2012
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February 12, 2012
Michael Gazzaniga: Your Brain is Automatic. You Are Free.
From Big Think
"The way I sum it up is that brains are automatic, but people are free because people are joining the social group and in that group are laws to live by. We can understand brains to the nth degree, but it’s not going to, in any way, interfere with the fact that taking responsibility in a social network is done at that level."
http://bigthink.com/ideas/42384
February 7, 2012
January 17, 2012
The hollow face illusion
The hollow face illusion illustrates the power of what cognitive psychologists call “top-down” (essentially, knowledge-driven) influences on perception. Our statistically salient experience with endless hordes of convex faces in daily life installs a deep expectation of convexness: an expectation that here trumps the many other visual cues that ought to be telling us that what we are seeing is a concave mask.
From
Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?
By Andy Clark
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/do-thrifty-brains-make-better-minds/
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