Information Processing

  From the Sky Down documents the creation of the U2 album Achtung Baby at Hansa Studios in Berlin. The moment of inspiration for the son...

Crossfit competitor Blair Morrison does a brutal but very basic workout. AMRAP = As Many Reps As Possible. Morrison was a wide receiver for ...

The journal made me replace my crude but hopefully charming hand drawn figures with computer-generated ones. Which are better? (Paper previo...

The NY Times has a great profile of Gil Elbaz, founder of the startup which eventually became Google AdSense. Elbaz's early aspirations ...

Jonathan Haidt argues that self-transcendence is an evolutionary consequence of group selection, and not merely a side-effect of our brain w...

In his PhD dissertation, Charles Misner , following a suggestion from his advisor John Wheeler, formulates quantum gravity in terms of the p...

Albert Einstein: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors t...

A big profile in the NYTimes magazine. Very few things are harder than a career as an auteur in independent film. An earlier post (2009) o...

No. This guy will probably regret writing a bitter resignation op-ed. NYTimes : ... It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping ...

Luis Alvarez laid it out bluntly: The world of mathematics and theoretical physics is hierarchical. That was my first exposure to it. The...

I recently came across the audio from a talk I gave at Def Con 9, July 2001 in Las Vegas: itunes ; Def Con (couldn't get the video to w...

With the exception of George Church, everyone mentioned below has a background in physics (even Larry Smarr ). Physicists are not like oth...

I managed to track down the Wigner quote I mentioned in an earlier post . ... Perhaps the consciousness of animals is more shadowy than ours...

I recently came across this excellent talk (podcast number 84 on the list at the link) by Philip Tetlock about his research on expert pred...

A great quote from this review of George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral . Despite the title, von Neumann is the central character. .....

I'm writing a review (for Physics World) of a recent book on the history of options pricing, and I'm collecting a few links here so ...

Yale economist William Nordhaus, who has studied cost-benefit aspects of potential policy responses to global warming, responds to this rec...

For related posts, click the "income inequality" label below. Here's one: real wealth . WSJ : ... Schiff says his $350,000 sal...

Class (SES; author uses "SEB" = Socio-Economic Background) primarily affects starting salaries, whereas intelligence affects salar...

How easy is it to raise SAT scores via test prep? The figures below come from The Effect of Admissions Test Preparation: Evidence from NELS:...

Some interesting discussion by Turing biographer and mathematical physicist Andrew Hodges of Turing's early thoughts about the brain as...

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , The Daily Show on Facebook Sorry if...

The NYTimes asked me to comment on Fisher v. Texas , the case involving affirmative action in higher education that the Supreme Court has a...

Pseudo-Chinese gibberish -- didn't Shaq do the same to Yao Ming when he first came in the league? I think Yao Ming played it off: "...

Econtalk interviews Adam Davidson about his recent Atlantic article on US manufacturing. Adam says he "is good at math and computers...