Lisa Gold is an accurately self described Research Maven, who help Neal Stephenson write the Baroque Trilogy, about late 17th […]
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 […]
The Ellsberg Paradox
Mark Frauenfelder over at BoingBoing is reading Gregory Bern’s Iconoclast. He talks about the Ellsberg Paradox. Read his description of […]
Utterly Cynical GOP
Saw this first on Digg, where the GOP is trying to use foreclosure roles in Michigan to deny people the […]
Woes on Wall Street, Black Swans
I woke up this morning and opened my browser, and found the Dow down 500 points, to less than 11,000. […]