The General Dogma of our Time is that to maximize the overall welfare it is important to increase the freedom and the access to choices. The access to multiple choices opens therefore the door to happiness and the maximization of welfare. Or is it?
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March 16, 2010
Theory of Relativity
One of my favorite subject is the theory of relativity: its fundamental study, and its application to our lives: telecommunication, satellites, cellphones etc.
Pr. Leonard Susskind of Stanford University covers in a 12 lectures series Einstein's theory of relativity.
February 23, 2010
A midday nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity
Findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter.
If you see a student dozing in the library or a co-worker catching 40 winks in her cubicle, don't roll your eyes. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour's nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power. Indeed, the findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter.
February 18, 2010
Brain capacity. What's the limit?
Never wandered about what was your brain capacity, how much memory you have, how fast can you process information, and if all of your RAM and CPU speed are cast in a stone or elastic? It seems pretty obvious that brain capacity is pretty much elastic, but think about it; it could mean that the more you remember the more you would be able to remember, the more you learn the more you would be able to learn, and the faster you learn the faster you would be able to learn. Not so trivial.
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