New Job for Brain Scientists: Pitching Mutual Funds
April 9th, 2013 |
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I was watching one of the March Madness games recently with my son Benjamin. He is the only one in the world I can do this with because I can ask him what the difference is between the shot clock in the NBA and the one in the NCAA without being asked to immediately produce [...]
Keep reading »Animating Anthropomorphism: Giving Minds To Geometric Shapes [Video]
March 8th, 2013 |
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The brain has a problem. Information can only enter it through sensory apparatuses: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. And the information that enters the brain is fairly simple. The brain therefore has an enormous task: to take sparse inputs and transform them into extremely complex cognitive representations. For example, the retina that coats [...]
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Groundhogs
February 2nd, 2012 |
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Happy Groundhog Day! Today is the day each year in which we look towards a giant rodent to find out how much more winter we’ll have to endure. This year, we probably know the answer: winter hasn’t been very wintery, even for Los Angeles. Which, well, isn’t ever really wintery at all. According to tradition, [...]
Keep reading »Chicken Soup for the Lonely Soul: Why Comfort Food Works
November 24th, 2011 |
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My grandmother was born in Sobrance, in what was then called Czechoslovakia on November 5, 1930. She grew up in ten kilometers away, in a small town called Nagy-Muzsaly. Her father’s family were landowners, something that was very rare for Jewish families at the time, and they used that land to produce wine. My grandmother’s [...]
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