Is Sudoku seductive? Is chess sexy? Is crafting code a turn-on? To our brains, absolutely. But while most of us don’t use the word “seductive” […]
Month: April 2006
Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain
Everyone’s favorite A-list target, Robert Scoble, announced the unthinkable a few days ago: he will be moderating his comments. But what some people found far […]
String theory cont’d
What is largely beyond question, and is of primary importance to the journey described in my book The Elegant Universe, is that even if one […]
A Theory of Everything?
The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the “letters” of all matter. Just like their linguistic counterparts, […]
The Search Lurch: Have We Become Lazy Googlers or Smarter Web Researchers?
Question: As the power and influence of search engines such as Google increase, will Web users bother going to homepages and trying to figure out […]