How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big Overview of Scott Adams’ new book. Quote: “Success caused passion more than passion caused success. “

Why it’s time to lay the selfish gene to rest “There lies the quick beating heart of her argument: the gene follows. And one of the ways the gene follows is through this process called genetic accommodation.”

Brain connectivity study reveals striking differences between men and women “Females outperformed males on attention, word and face memory, and social cognition tests. Males performed better on spatial processing and sensorimotor speed. Those differences were most pronounced in the 12 to 14 age range.”

Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance TED

Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses to Create His Realistic Images | Vanity Fair

How Creativity in Humor, Art, and Science Works: Arthur Koestler’s Theory of Bisociation “The true creativity of the innovator in the arts is more dramatically evident and more easily distinguished from the routine of the mere practitioner than in the sciences, because art (and humor) operate primarily through the transitory juxtaposition of matrices, whereas science […]

Brain Cells ‘Geotag’ Memories “So it seems like the hippocampus maps things in time,” Eichenbaum says, “very much the way it maps in space.”

Journal of a Programmer: Waterfall vs Agile “…we’re not just winging it. Rather, we’re endeavoring to make the units of work small enough so that: Everyone on the team can understand the task being undertaken, and the result we expect it to have. Regularly and frequently, everyone on the team can reflect on the work […]