Entries tagged with: Brains
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New Fast Company: The Meowtrix
My new Fast Company essay is now up, looking at the news that IBM researchers have produced a cortical computing system with the connection complexity of a cat's brain. (My original title is shown here on the illustration; the...
Social Transition Stress Disorder
In 2002, I wrote Broken Dreams, a guidebook for the Steve Jackson Games "Transhuman Space" role-playing game series. Broken Dreams covered global traumas such as conflict, social disorder, economic decline, and intellectual property. Part of the book concerned how various...
Your Brain Hates You
The "blue" and the "green" are identical colors (RGB 0/255/150). Discuss. Yes, they are. Grab this image and test the colors yourself. Here are more. From Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomy blogger, who says: The orange stripes go through the...
New Fast Company Column: Social Networks and the Brain
This week's Fast Company column is now up: Social Networking and the Brain: Continuous Partial Empathy? asks whether the way we use social networking technologies is ultimately making us better people -- or worse... Social technologist Linda Stone talks about...
Thinking About Thinking
Here's the opening of a work in progress.... Seventy-four thousand years ago, humanity nearly went extinct. A super-volcano at what's now Sumatra's Lake Toba erupted with a strength more than a thousand times greater than that of Mount St. Helens...
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