We've been doing a twitter feed called #madskit. This stands for Mad Scientist in the Kitchen and it uses physics, neurobiology, chemistry, and cognitive science to come up with novel methodologies for cooking. But we start with what defines a

Altruism

Feb 25th, 2018 2m 49s

Using the singularity affords unique perspectives. We normally only perceive positives, but removal of a negative is just as important but usually mis perceived

Granularity

Jan 24th, 2018 4m 34s

When something is down to small enough amounts it behaves unpredictably. The quintessential example is carbon clumps of mere hundreds of molecules that get buffeted around by water molecules like beach balls in the ocean. Fentanyl also acts unp

There is a Santa, now

Dec 19th, 2017 4m 28s

We have trouble giving gifts due to brain limits. Here's how to overcome them. And for a limited time Santa will help. You can write to Santa and have the gifts delivered, but YOU need to supply the gift card money.

Gunslinger effect

Nov 29th, 2017 4m 1s

The physicist Niels Bohr theorized that there are multiple neural pathways that control movement--cortical (thinking) and pre-cortical (reacting). The reacting is faster so Greebo drew first but Han shot first.. References at gunslinger.html

Corruption is Good

Nov 22nd, 2017 2m 1s

You see explicitly many places, and implicitly everywhere on the Right that corruption is good. The case has been made to increase efficiency. For this reason, in Republican governance, what is out front never matters as more as what is behind

The DBP

Oct 15th, 2017 1m 34s

>Minorities and women are put into positions that are engineered to fail The purpose is that the racism of those interacting or observing the DBP will tend to blame them and not hte company. The company doing this depends on racism. Examples in

The Deutsch Effect

Oct 8th, 2017 2m 50s

Professor Diana Deutsch has done pioneering work on the cognitive processing (or MIS-processing) of auditory input. One of many of her amazing findings that became eponymous was that words on repetitive hearing like with a stuck record can beco