Category: Psychology
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Five-Minute Posts: Sour Apples
This article from today’s New York Times is kinda interesting. I’m fairly Apple-neutral, but I enjoyed seeing the fanatics get called out a bit. We talked about something similar to “hostile media phenomenon” in the DOE weapons non-proliferation seminar I went to a couple of years ago at Mizzou. No matter how neutral an article…
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Music To My Ears, and Eyes
I’m telling you, Julie Rehmeyer is fast becoming one of my favorite science writers. Her Science News Math Trek piece this week follows up on a paper by music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko that represents musical chords in hyperdimensional geometries. Even cooler than Rehmeyer’s very accessible written description of the work, though, are the accompanying videos…