mind and learning – from trenches of science and buddhism
How does our mind/brains recognize objects? Neuroscientists retrained monkey brains to blur the distinction between two objects — a Dalmatian dog image and a rhinoceros
How does our mind/brains recognize objects? Neuroscientists retrained monkey brains to blur the distinction between two objects — a Dalmatian dog image and a rhinoceros
There’s growing realization that value-added technology innovation stalls. How did ancients invent/innovate? New York Times started its own Google-Labs-style innovation-driving initiative called beta620. A response to
Did you know that music can teach about life and history? A native of Trinidad and Tobago, pan, was originally used for communication between enslaved
What is life? Life is a game, emergent on simple rules – humans cannot pretend to know even a tiny part of those rules. But
Science is the way we surprise God. Indeed, our most significant way of surprising God. LHC considers discarding the supersymmetry theory (last 20 years of
A roadside dentist in China. By-the-hour hotels. Everything is fast. Time is faster. We are faster. World has accelerated from around 1989. We now started
When spring comes, bee hives divide into two, one group staying in, the other looking for new home. It’s not the queen assigning “home-searching scouts”
9th century Persian polymath Al-Khwārizmī needs credit. His treatise about linear equations was the most widely read in Europe during Middle Ages. “Algorithm” is a
One past extensive research about creativity asked the question “What are creative people like?” concluding, creative people: work very hard; are more disposed to setting
We often blur lines between an autocrat, despot, dictator and tyrant. For many, they are different names of an oppressive, cruel and powerful person. But
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