Coffee and Carrots
I feel a bit like a rabbit at the moment--nibbling on coffee-flavored carrot sticks (I put them in the same section of the fridge where I keep my coffee, so the smell permeated them, kinda cool)
Today in my Math IE our prof (visiting from U of Chicago), the golfing one, talked about some of his research on the neuro-biology of pro vs. amateur golfers. They took a bunch of pro golfers and measured their brain activity while taking a swing, then measured the activity of amateurs over the same setup. The amateurs spent much more time calculating and thinking over the problem, while the pros spent about half as much brain activity, and none in the "thinking" category. Which leads to the conclusion that if you can teach your muscles to do something right, you will do it best by not even thinking about what you're doing! Isn't that neat--
Speaking of the workings of the human mind: I got this from my friend Dan. I've found that the more you try to read it, the harder it becomes to read:
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe"
Well, clinic work is waiting to be done. Electronics is too. bye-
Today in my Math IE our prof (visiting from U of Chicago), the golfing one, talked about some of his research on the neuro-biology of pro vs. amateur golfers. They took a bunch of pro golfers and measured their brain activity while taking a swing, then measured the activity of amateurs over the same setup. The amateurs spent much more time calculating and thinking over the problem, while the pros spent about half as much brain activity, and none in the "thinking" category. Which leads to the conclusion that if you can teach your muscles to do something right, you will do it best by not even thinking about what you're doing! Isn't that neat--
Speaking of the workings of the human mind: I got this from my friend Dan. I've found that the more you try to read it, the harder it becomes to read:
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe"
Well, clinic work is waiting to be done. Electronics is too. bye-