Creative at night
If you tend to do creative work late at night, this article claims that it's no coincidence that you are a night owl and that you are creative. Hmmmm. I wonder what time of day the testing was done to come up with this data.
The night of 9/11
From Vanity Fair's oral history of the Bush White House: Richard Clarke: That night, on 9/11, Rumsfeld came over and the others, and the president finally got back, and we had a meeting. And Rumsfeld said, You know, we’ve got to do Iraq, and everyone looked at him—at least I…
How is high-speed high-volume inter-connectivity affecting our brains?
What happens to our brains when we sit at our computers for long periods of time interacting with the cyber world? This question was considered in an article called "Meet Your iBrain," appearing in the October/November 2008 issue of scientific American Mind. The authors cite a 2005 Kaiser family foundation…
Are you smarter than a stuffed animal?
It's a simple problem in mechanics, and several stuffed animals weigh in.
Thought-provoking photo of Earth from Saturn
This is how Earth looks from Saturn. That's 930 million miles away (ten times the distance from the Earth to the Sun). Kind of puts things in perspective.