Protein folding? Well, it’s a video game.
Since 2008, scientists
Category: Science
Learning at Harvard – Making Pottery & Watching Plants Grow
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process – William James.
Process is the new
Art – Science’s Poor Cousin?
Art, glamorous as its image may seem, struggles to be taken seriously as an academic discipline in universities. Perhaps as a consequence, there is the constant
Winston’s Black Dog and Vincent’s Left Ear – Creativity & Mental Illness
Yes, you can believe it now: madness is
Consciousness & Free Will – They Are Just Illusions
Just when we think we know why we are superior to monkeys – the larger size of our prefrontal cortex: that ‘thinking’ or executive brain – now neuro-biologists are telling us we don’t really
Richard Feynman 1918-1988 – The Value of Art
On this day, February 15, Richard Feynman died in Los Angeles, in 1988. He was of course the Nobel physicist (1965) who was well known for his idiosyncrasies. One of them was that he played the Bongo drum (professionally), and furthermore, from repairing radios to picking locks… to painting and poetry he did it all. So on this day, I will print a poem from one of his lectures, The Value of Science:
The Religious Artist as Skeptic – And the Scientific Method
There are two types of believers in art, or religion, or even science: the true believer, who is constantly testing his beliefs by
When Einstein Met le Corbusier – What Went Wrong?
What is it about physics that so intimidates? Or is it just Einstein?
Le Corbusier recalled his visit to Princeton in 1946 to meet the Nobel laureate:
Rats & Brain Games – Rejuvenate Those Aging Neurons
What? We all know that those brain games you can buy – yes, they make you good at those games, and that’s about it. We need something more general, more basic that we can use in all circumstances.