Artistry on a computer
adminYoko, are you listening? Mark over on BoingBoing points us to Bob Staake's video of creating a picture using very old software. It is the best illustration I have seen…
Online Professors for Free
New York Times has an article about the best of online professors. Now that many universities are making their lectures available online for free, sometimes directly and sometimes through services…
Boycott Thomson Reuters
I use an excellent program for research, called Zotero. It helps me catalog everything I find about my research subjects into one easily accessed place. One of the best features…
Cognizing and offloading Cognitive Load
In linguistincs and psychology we talk about the cognitive load of any task. A task that requires calculation or analysis has a larger cognitive load. A task in a foreign…
The Ellsberg Paradox
Mark Frauenfelder over at BoingBoing is reading Gregory Bern's Iconoclast. He talks about the Ellsberg Paradox. Read his description of aversion to ambiguity. Which one would you choose?