Website review: collision detection: a blog of cliv...
AndyM discovered this in Science/Tech
•13 reviews since Oct 4, 2003
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•collisiondetection.net
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AndyM discovered 58 months ago- A blog of new technology, research, and trends.
- nicky187 rated 2 months ago
- Love it. Excellent writer. From the page: "I'm Clive Thompson, a writer on science, technology, and culture. This blog collects weird research I'm running into, and musings thereon."
- Korayem rated 14 months ago
I'm Clive Thompson, a writer on science, technology, and culture. This blog collects weird research I'm running into, and musings thereon. Currently, I'm a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and I also write for Wired, Discover, New York magazine, and Wired News, among others. Email or
- rosserfan rated 25 months ago
- Read
- TheSmokingManX rated 25 months ago
- A weblog about politics, technology, and culture
- pascalvanhecke rated 29 months ago
- Amazingly interesting blog from a science journalist who writes for the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Discover, New York magazine, and Wired News... too little time to follow this however (exrss tag = rss unsubscription)
- BerryChip rated 30 months ago
- Kool tech info
- virtualbloodhoun rated 32 months ago
- From the page: "Are smarter people better at ignoring things? People frequently complain that they can't remember things -- and they wish their brains had more storage capacity, like today's ever-expanding computer hard drives and RAM. If we could just improve the sheer size of our memory, we'd be able to retain and manipulate more data, and we'd become smarter and smarter -- right? Not according to an intriguing new experiment by brain scientists at the University of Oregon. Edward Vogel and a team of students took a handful of volunteers and tested their "visual working memory" -- their ability to maintain awareness of events and objects around them. The test asked them to pay attention to red or blue bricks in a visual picture. Now, visual working memory is highly correlated to intelligence: People with a bigger VWM tend to score much better on an array of cognitive challenges. For years, scientists have assumed that VWM is roughly analogous to cramming info into your head: The more you can fit in there, the smarter you are. But when Vogel mapped the brain-wave activity of the volunteers, he noticed something much weirder. The people with the largest capacity in their VWM weren't retaining tons of information. No, they were being quite selective. Their genius lay in being able to strip out inessential information: To pay attention only to the red bricks -- to hold only those "in mind" -- and to ignore the blue ones. The upshot, as the editors at Nature summarize, is that ... ... this also implies that an individual's effective memory capacity may not simply reflect storage space, as it does with a hard disk. It may also reflect how efficiently irrelevant information is excluded from using up vital storage capacity."
- Lisuebie rated 34 months ago
- Like having an articulate, informed buddy to sit down to coffe with and find out all the really cool tech&sci gossip. Oooh!
- d2s rated 46 months ago
- From the page: "I'm Clive Thompson, a writer on politics, technology, and culture. This blog collects weird research I'm running into, and musings thereon. Recently, I finished a stint as a Knight science-journalism fellow at MIT, and these days am doing journalism for The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and others." Nice blog from professional writer.
