So two stories I came across recently made me think about the brain’s ability to cope under extreme stress. The first is the story of the recently-freed Iranian-Canadian Journalist, Maziar Bahari, who was held captive for 118 days following election protests in Iran. He was arrested and held under suspicion of being a spy. During […]
Daily Planet did a segment on this in 2007. It’s one of my all time favourite DP clips as well.
Still can’t get over how that guy you thought was your friend took off with your girlfriend?? Here’s something that might help you move past the grudge: wash your hands, then give the sitch another thought. What’s one got to do with the other, you ask? Plenty, according to British researchers. The team – out […]
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt looks at why you vote the way you do.
Advancements in robotics are taking us ever-closer to what roboticist Masahiro Mori termed the “Uncanny Valley” in 1970; the idea’s that you don’t want your robot to be an unconvincing, awkward imitation-human, but you don’t want it to be too convincing either. The theory states that the more a robot becomes humanlike in its appearance […]
