Many of Our Beliefs Are Unconscious 8 years agoA response to the Nick Chater article: http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/there-is-no-such-thing-as-... 0ThreadHN
NASA engineer explains the aerodynamics of the World Cup soccer ball (2014) 8 years agoThe ball designed changed for the 2018 World Cup. Here's a history. https://www.worldsoccer.com/world-cup/world-cup-ball-401201 0ThreadHN
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will 9 years agoFrom this weekends NY Times...."Our Love Affair With Digital Is Over" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/internet-d... 0ThreadHN
El Capitan, My El Capitan 9 years agoThe Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor... 0ThreadHN
A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy 9 years agoCormac McCarthy's original article, The Kekulé Problem Where did language come from? http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem 0ThreadHN
Why We Shouldn’t Accept Unrepeated Science–Our Author Responds to His Critics 10 years agoThe author answers critic to the original story. http://nautil.us/blog/we-should-not-accept-scientific-result... 0ThreadHN
What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside 10 years agoPowerfully moving video up for the Webby Award for Best Video: Science & Education https://pv.webbyawards.com/2016/online-film-video/general-fi... 0ThreadHN
Landing an F-15 with only one wing 10 years agoThere is a brief History channel ad in the middle of the video....so just play through that. 0ThreadHN
Writing in Cafés: A Personal History 11 years agoThe great cafe short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Hemingway. http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html 0ThreadHN
The Quantum Mechanics of Fate (2014) 11 years agoand this from Paul Davies on the flow of time. http://nautil.us/blog/where-did-time-come-from-and-why-does-... 0ThreadHN
The Quantum Mechanics of Fate (2014) 11 years agoThis is another Nautilus article, by Julian Barbour, on the arrow of time. http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/the-mystery-of-times-arrow 0ThreadHN
Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer 11 years agoHume would have been impressed. 0ThreadHN
Physicist Paul Steinhardt on what’s wrong with inflation theory 11 years agoVideo cut into questions but full print transcript is also there. 0ThreadHN
[dead] 12 years agoThe Paris Review did in their piece on the observer article. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/12/a-kind-of-slea... 0ThreadHN
Some Fear Ebola Outbreak Could Make Nation Turn to Science 12 years agoHere is one for the books. 0ThreadHN
On Getting Wasted 12 years agoYes...Harper's is a fantastic magazines. I've been a subscriber for years. 0ThreadHN