A fighter pilot on how to avoid collisions when driving It’s about saccades and detecting movement.
(tags: safety cycling driving fighter perception brain) Video & Audio: Is the Universe Designed? - an Atheist’s View Stephen Law talks at the Faraday Institute. Evil God Challenge gets most of the time, plus a bit of the new X-claim stuff.
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Ground Control | George Monbiot “No progressive party can survive the corporate press, corrupt party funding systems and conservative fear machines by fighting these forces on their own terms. The left can build only from the ground up; reshaping itself through the revitalisation of communities, working with local people to help fill the gaps in ( Read more... )

The Open-Office Trap : The New Yorker Open offices are horrible. Shame I work in one at the moment.
(tags: office productivity work space) Goodnight. Sleep Clean. - NYTimes.com Sleep is for your cerebral fluid to clear away the accumulated junk. Maybe.
(tags: sleep insomnia brain neuroscience) What is frame? “My best definition is that its a social ( Read more... )

Making Light: Victory to the People A history of the development of the Biblical canon, recounted as if it were fan fiction.
(tags: canon religion bible nicea) Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? - NYTimes.com No, but you can note that some of them are Callous-Unemotional and may grow up to be psychopaths.
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