Priming

Just reading Yes! whcih looks like a silly business book, but is really about the science of how the external world affects our internal world. Many of the ideas are touched on in the latest Edge. If you don’t believe it about priming, go to the implicit tests...

Tough maths questions

Yikes – they are pretty out there. Example: “Computation at Scale: How can we develop asymptotics for a world with massively many degrees of freedom?”

Invisible to tsunami?

Lovely application of metamaterials (those whose structure affects their function) to shield objects from heavy waves, including tsunami.

Thousand rubies

Lovely galaxy. Not quite the milky way of the more recent post, but still beautiful.

Extraordinary picture

Great chutzpah to flash your flashlight for the time needed to not damage this long exposure. Amazing.

Fish oil is snake oil?

Must read on the Durham non-trials. Even the Indy was reporting some “interesting findings” or some such. Shocking.