brain research

How We Decide and Why It Matters

20 January 2011

A wonderfully readable update on brain research is Jonah Lehrer’s How We Decide that looks at how our emotions affect decisions and what the brain tells us about it. Lehrer worked in the lab of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel, is editor-at-large for Seed Magazine, and  publishes regularly in major magazines and newspapers. He has both [...]

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Fractals, Natural Writing Systems, Topological Features

18 January 2011

Big words in a string — fractals, natural writing systems, topological features — that all melt down to the fact that our writing systems develop out of the forms we know from birth, the world around us. The shapes in the landscape and in our built world are mathematically similar to those in letters. And [...]

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