Limits On this hour of Radiolab: a journey to the edge of human limits. How much can you jam into a human brain? How far can you push yourself past feelings of exhaustion? We test physical endurance with a bike race that makes the Tour de France look like child’s play, and mental capacity with a mind-stretching memory competition. And we ask if robots--for better or worse--may be forging beyond the limits of human understanding. Correction: An earlier version of this piece stated in error that Mr.
Achieving Goals Like a Mad Klingon « Goals « How to get organized, how to be productive, GTD, Swift To-Do List tips and tricks – Dextronet Blog Do you wish that your goals were on auto-pilot, and automatically finished themselves? Well, that is probably impossible, but what I’m going to talk about here is very, very close to it. Ladies and gentleman, I bring you yet another extremely powerful life-hack. But let me make one thing straight first: This incredible goal achievement technique is not for the faint of heart. You’ve probably heard that the bad boys (or Klingons) always get the girl, and nice guys are left wallflowering on the sidelines. Well, it’s the same with goals. The nice goals are rarely achieved, but bad-ass goals that will make your life hell, unless you accomplish them, will get accomplished. “Whoa, OK, buddy, wait a minute… What are you talking about?!” I’m talking about my beautifully simple and scary-effective way of accomplishing worthy goals. The truth is that whenever I’m fighting with my willpower, I usually lose. When I want to get from nothing to something great, this is what I do. Choose a worthy goal.
11 Things that Fill Me with Awe Eleven Things that Fill Me with Awe The unimaginable vastness of what exists. Our visible universe has about ten billion galaxies, and those galaxies have an average of about ten billion stars each. That the properties of the universe are conducive (perhaps even almost optimally conducive) to life. Several scientists and philosophers, from Fred Hoyle to Martin Rees, have observed that the physical properties of our universe are what would be needed for life to emerge. That the apparently mindless process of evolution can, and even tends to, result in forms of increasing complexity, beauty, and value. Evolution (the accumulated change in a lineage of living things through the inheritance of new variations), operating through natural selection (the differential reproductive success resulting from those variations), has led to increases in complexity, diversity, quantity, and specialization on this planet. That there is something rather than nothing. Why does anything exist? That qualia exist.