March 2011
Awesome →
“Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize...”
– Lao Tzu (via illuminatedbeing)
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and... →
For scientists studying how humans come to understand their world, the central challenge is this: How do our minds get so much from so little? We build rich causal models, make strong generalizations, and construct powerful abstractions, whereas the input data are sparse, noisy, and ambiguous—in every way far too limited. A massive mismatch looms between the information coming in through our...
Can you predict your mate will cheat by their... →
When choosing a partner, women believe the lower the man’s voice, the more likely he’s going to cheat. Conversely, men think a woman with a higher voice is more likely to be unfaithful, researchers have found. […]
[…] In terms of sexual strategy, we found that men and women will use voice pitch as a warning sign of future betrayal. So the more attractive the voice—a higher pitch for...
your beautiful mind: brief moment of inspiration →
yourbeautifulmind:
Multiverse
It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration. There’s a lot of spadework first, of course, but what clinches the whole thing is the sight of, say, a…
