It’s a mystery
There’s a scene near the beginning of the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love: The theatres, we have heard, are all closed by the plague. And then: HENSLOWE: Mr. Fennyman, let me explain about the theatre...
Category: Cognitive science
Catch the ball: shifting from text to visual/motor thinking for complex problems
We are shifting our thinking style to accommodate a much more complex and interdependent world than we have faced in the past. Consider: In 2014, Google purchased Deep Mind, formerly a UK-based startup with...
Towards two-marshmallow government
There’s a well-known psychological experiment, where children are offered a marshmallow, and told that if they could wait a few minutes before eating it, they’d get two. The kids who could handle the delayed...
