Just incredible: feast your eyes upon images scientists took of memories in the process of being formed. What you’re seeing above is the formation of a long-term memory. More specifically, you’re seeing proteins between the “pre- and post-synapse” synthesizing. That chemical reaction is what causes memories to be retained in the long term. But how? [...]

I am presently at the Games, Learning and Society Confernece in Madison, WI, and I just heard James Gee’s keynote presentation. Here are the notes I made while he was speaking. No guarantees they will make sense to you! Jim Gee keynote June 11, 2009 Games Learning and Society Conference Madison Wisconsin 9AM Talk based [...]

Does anyone really believe that Supreme Court Justices are impartial? That Justices Roberts and Alito, to use the most recent appointees as examples, aren’t Conservatives who have voted so far during their short tenures exactly as the political ideologues who nominated them expected them too? I mean, it’s ludicrous: the reason why so much political [...]