A fitness app is bringing new insights into the way we use bicycles. Source: Strava maps show where Australian cyclists go An interesting example of using “big data” constructively – and maybe a good sort of thing to look at…
Month: May 2016
Aeon | ideas and culture
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish original essays, incisive opinions, and outstanding non-fiction films, free for all. Source: Aeon | ideas and culture This is a pretty cool repository of really interesting ideas and opinions, with…
Memory and schema
For lab members interested in memory and schema, Bartlett (1932) is original memory book that everyone cites – so probably a good plan that we read it too 🙂 Link to the works of Bartlett Link to an online version of…
The Increasing Problem With the Misinformed
The public is no longer uninformed. They are misinformed, and that requires an entirely different editorial focus. When writing for the uninformed, your focus is to report the news, which is what every newspaper is doing today. But when focusing…
Neuroscience Fiction – The New Yorker
The first and foremost reason why we shouldn’t simply disown neuroscience altogether is an obvious one: if we want to understand our minds, from which all of human nature springs, we must come to grips with the brain’s biology. The…
Society of mind (Minsky) on the web
Society of Mind book in html form This is the entire “Society of Mind” book by Marvin Minsky on the web! This is an awesome read (or series of awesome reads) that I recommend to everyone!