Think about some of your favorite sci-fi films. How many of them reference futuristic technologies that are used to augment a character’s brainpower? Turns out that not all these movies, books, and TV shows are based in completely in fiction. Modern scientific research is slowly working to make these brain hacks a reality. Here…
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Information Pollution Alert! Living with Data Smog
We are a nation awash in data smog. This is more than just information overload — it’s not just that there’s too much information out there for one person to adequately encompass, it’s that there’s too much data out there to even make out the information clearly, let alone to evaluate and act on that…
You: The Science Experiment
I don’t expect you’ll be drinking mystery potions or hooking yourself up to a car battery anytime soon. But conducting personal experiments are probably the best way to find answers. By actually testing (instead of assuming) your habits, beliefs, methods and systems you can make real improvements. Stop Theorizing, Look at Results Nassim Nicholas Taleb…
Learn Science Through Videos
MAKE Magazine, a source of endless interesting projects and ideas, posted a link to a science video podcast done by a high school teacher in Indiana and his students. You can learn about thermodynamics, and boiling and more. Any way to get information into our heads in a non-traditional way ends up being a great…