I was reading Boing Boing last weekend and a particular piece caught my interest. It featured a cheat sheet written for a woman who woke up in the hospital with anterograde amnesia—a form of memory loss where the sufferer finds themselves unable to make new memories—like the main character in Chris Nolan’s brilliant neo-noir, Memento. [...]
Continuing the theme for inattentional blindness from Tuesday, we look at an experiment performed by Trafton Drew, Melissa Vo, and Jeremy Wolfe at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Reported by NPR, It was inspired by a famous video produced in 1999 by psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. I probably should have posted the clip [...]
This isn’t the first comic about a Mars-based reality TV premise. Nor is the concept so strange to me anymore. But the difference between MArs-500 and its predecessor is that the former was a real experiment—a series of experiments, in fact. The production crews are probably going through the footage as we speak. While only [...]
Yesterday was Thanksgiving. I hope those of you who partook had a lovely time with friends and family. It was also my birthday, so I did jack squat diddly doop doop dah doo. That is, until this article in New York Magazine about the psychology of Black Friday crossed my desk*. Then my pen flowed [...]
Okay, I’ll be honest. We’re floundering here. Real life has hit us in the sac like nobody’s business. Beneath our calm, content-filled exterior is a raging torrent of conventions, moves, life adjustments, and overall real life business. Or busyness. Yeah. That’s right. Nadir has uprooted himself from his Pennsylvania hideaway and absconded to Connecticut. You can [...]
We’ve all been there. It’s late at night and you’re home alone. You’re taking a shower in the dark. The sound of the water muffles all other ambient sounds. As you start to shampoo you hear a *clunk* –What was that? Did you just knock over the conditioner? Or maybe, maybe an inbred rape enthusiast just [...]
If I can’t abuse Sci-ənce! to weasel in a drawing of a Unicorn taking a dump then I’m not exactly sure what the point to any of this is. What separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom? Tools? No. Speech? Not really. Lying about the size of your jangle? Well, yeah ok, I’ll [...]
Own up. You see it too. We’ve all seen it. But its important to remember that just because that tree trunk LOOKS like it has a face. It doesn’t mean it’s judging you. Or that terrible shirt you’re wearing. Trees don’t judge, but as humans we have a hard wired psychology for pattern recognition, especially [...]