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mental_floss Blog - Sep 24, 2008
Can we stop epidemics by stopping people from shaking each others’ hands? Can we solve global overconsumption by making people smaller, or just getting rid of mostly everybody? If a “one child per family” policy means …
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On Salmon, Trout, and Chatmental_floss Blog - Sep 15, 2008 Several friends of mine have reported strange chat sessions over the past few months. The chats are a form of mediated communication between strangers that seems either like a prank or an art project (or perhaps both) … Also tagged: technology, blogs, humor, computers, bizarro |
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The Quirkbook: What’s Your Quirk?mental_floss Blog - Sep 3, 2008 Writer/software guy Rands recently sent out a fairly innocent tweet* saying: “Making a list of superstitions / foolish consistencies / lightweight OCD behaviors e.g. I always put my RIGHT shoe on first. You?” He … Also tagged: blogs |
mental_floss Blog - Aug 29, 2008
Peter Donnelly is a statistician with a sense of humor. He starts his talk with a classic statistician joke: “How do you tell an introverted statistician from an extroverted statistician? The extrovert is the one who …
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Movies You’d Erase Your Memory to See Again for the First Timemental_floss Blog - Apr 23, 2008 Earlier this month we had a nice discussion of books you can’t put down — the comments led me to buy several new books, the first of which I’ve already failed to put down (thanks for the Shadow Divers tip, Capt … Also tagged: blogs, movies, pop culture |
mental_floss Blog - Apr 3, 2008
Ingmar Bergman is one of the most influential film directors of the 20th century, with classics like The Seventh Seal and Fanny and Alexander among his enormous body of work. Before Bergman’s death in 2007, the BBC …
Also tagged: art, blogs, movies, pop culture
mental_floss Blog - Apr 2, 2008
Amidst today’s rash of April Fool’s pranks, here’s an alternative: a 2004 TED talk that’s both sober and entertaining. In this talk, designer Stefan Sagmeister discusses the things in life that have made him the …
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ELIZA: Free Compu-Therapy…Sort Ofmental_floss Blog - Mar 25, 2008 Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum died earlier this month, reminding us that his most famous creation, the computer program ELIZA, lives on. Weizenbaum created ELIZA in the mid 1960’s as a model of “natural … Also tagged: technology, blogs, history, language, computers, inventions |
mental_floss Blog - Mar 19, 2008
Douglas Hofstadter is the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, a now-classic work on how the mind arises from mechanical parts. While I’ll admit I haven’t gotten through the entire book, I recently …
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On Quittingmental_floss Blog - Feb 9, 2008 I recently quit my day job (which I’d held for nearly eight years) to focus on writing. Crazy? Maybe. Exhilarating? Definitely. In the three weeks since, I’ve gone through a few phases. First, I couldn’t seem to … Also tagged: blogs |