Would YOU kill the Fat Man? Here’s an interesting discovery concerning how fluency in language affects our ability to make moral decisions. Brains are neat! And weird!
Speaking of brains, how would you like to fly a plane using yours? Err, I mean JUST using yours. I hope if you’re a pilot you typically use your brain in addition to your hands.
An interesting article on biology and the space between order and chaos. True nerd fodder. Mmmm delicious fodder.
Here’s a very handy article on rules/tips for learning any language (relatively quickly). No, it’s not an ad for Pimsleur.
And here’s an article about DARPA’s (that’s the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) work developing brain implants to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ever wondered what the inside of the internet looks like? Surprisingly, it’s not just a series of tubes! Very cool look at the physical architecture that supports all this datums running around out there.