Victor Loux → Bookmarks → brain

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• fiction, tag
• brain, tag
• dystopia, tag
• story, tag
• wikipedia, tag
• ·3 years ago

Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Far Faster Than Sighted Persons? - Scientific American

scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blind-people-process/

• screen_readers, tag
• speech, tag
• brain, tag
• rate, tag
• speech_synthesis, tag
• ·4 years ago

Chasing 10X: Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering

senrigan.io/blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering

When I was burned out and my software engineering career was collapsing, I found that using spaced repetition was the one thing that enabled me to improve faster than I had imagined.

• memory, tag
• spaced_repetition, tag
• programming, tag
• productivity, tag
• brain, tag
• learning, tag
• ·5 years ago

Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten - BBC News

bbc.co.uk/news/health-39518580

Everything you know about memory may be wrong.

• cognitive, tag
• brain, tag
• cognition, tag
• memory, tag
• neurology, tag
• ·7 years ago

Why Japan's Rail Workers Can't Stop Pointing at Things - Atlas Obscura

atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-japan-trains

• culture, tag
• work, tag
• japan, tag
• safety, tag
• brain, tag
• management, tag
• psychology, tag
• train, tag
• ·7 years ago

The Two Noam Chomskys: the military-sponsored scientist and the anarchist activist | anarchistnews.org

anarchistnews.org/content/two-noam-chomskys-military-sponsored-scientist-and-anarchist-activist

• language, tag
• activism, tag
• noam_chomsky, tag
• computer, tag
• brain, tag
• marxism, tag
• science, tag
• intersections, tag
• ·8 years ago

An Anthropologist Walks Into A Bar And Asks, 'Why Is This Joke Funny?' : Shots - Health News : NPR

npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/08/06/157592468/an-anthropologist-walks-into-a-bar-and-asks-why-is-this-joke-funny

• psychology, tag
• brain, tag
• comedy, tag
• ·8 years ago

The Boy Whose Brain Could Unlock Autism — Matter — Medium

medium.com/matter/the-boy-whose-brain-could-unlock-autism-70c3d64ff221

Autism changed Henry Markram’s family. Now his Intense World theory could transform our understanding of the condition.

• autism, tag
• understanding, tag
• brain, tag
• behaviour, tag
• ·9 years ago