Your Brain on Literacy
Feelings of Knowing : The Frontal Cortex
Clive Thompson has a wonderful article in the NY Times Magazine on Watson, the supercomputer programmed to excel at Jeopardy. Thompson delves into the clever heuristics used to generate singular answers to ambiguous questions. (Watson relies on massive amounts of parallel processing, so that “he” is running thousands of Google searches simultaneously.) While Watson’s performance is certainly impressive, I thought the most interesting part of the story involved the failings of the machine. It’s easy to rhapsodize about the ever escalating speed of microchips, but it turns out that Watson is often too slow at ringing the buzzer: In more than 20 games I witnessed between Watson and former “Jeopardy!”Your Brain in Love
Graphic Science | Mind & Brain See Inside Cupid's arrows, laced with neurotransmitters, find their marks By Mark Fischetti | February 14, 2011 | Men and women can now thank a dozen brain regions for their romantic fervor.
Neuro-links - Brain, Self and Society - LSE
BIOS now closed The BIOS Centre closed as a research centre of the School on 31 December 2011. The BIOS research group is moving to King's College London as of January 2012 to become the research arm of a new Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine. Nikolas Rose will also be leaving the LSE at that time to become Head of this new Department. Further information and resources Research programmes and other activities previously undertaken in the BIOS Centre:
A unique reading experience This award-winning title brings alive the most revolutionary poem of the last hundred years for a 21 st century audience. A wealth of interactive features illuminate T.S. Eliot’s greatest work, including audio readings, detailed notes and expert insights. Expert perspectives
The Waste Land – for iPad
Inanimate Alice - About the Project
Born-digital Created as a reading-from-the-screen experience for the digital generation, Inanimate Alice stands alongside the best novels for pre-teen and emerging teen readers. Interactive
Other Writing A developing page of new short fiction, journalism, reviews, etc. Short Stories Did you know I wrote an absolutely FREE Chaos Walking prequel short story about Viola that you can download right now?
Patrick Ness - The New World
Description The legendary novel from the postwar prophet of American literature—brought to life with exclusive content for an absorbing and transformative experience Pulsating with the rhythms of jazz, frenetic sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, this iconic novel defined what it meant to be “beat” and captured the impulses of a liberated underground America. Based on Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends crossing the country in search of a new kind of experience and authenticity that they could not find in mainstream culture. Expressing a quintessential American vision of freedom and longing, On the Road is a timeless tale that resonates with each new generation.