From Cognitive Daily:

Many studies have found that people appear to remember much more from their teens and 20s than the rest of their lives. A fifty-year-old might remember more about her 20s than her 30s, even though the events in her 30s were more recent. Is there something about the teens and 20s that make them more memorable? Or do our brains just lose the ability to form lasting memories as we age?

Interesting stuff about our thinking machine…

From svn:

I remember waking up to such a face on day long ago and thinking “the world would have been no different if I had not been here the past six months”. That’s a terrible feeling of regret.

Been feeling it for years…

Disclaimer: my MacBook rocks :-)

From Indexed:

Jessica should visit Colombo…

From Cognitive Daily:

How long does it take for the cube to reverse ?

From SciAm website:

…demonstrated that the observers attended to the naked picture but not to its scrambled counterpart. Even more interesting, straight males attended to pictures of naked women but were slightly repelled by pictures of naked men. Straight women were attracted to pictures of naked men without showing a consistent repulsion for pictures of naked women. Gay men behaved much like straight women; they unconsciously paid attention to the pictures of the naked men but not to those of women…

The article is VERY insteresting. It describes an experiment made with a technique that renders invisible images that our eye is seeing, through a series of flashes. It has nothing to do with the Romulan cloaking device, it’s only a technique to fool our brains.

The subway system was down, there were no trains to Sta. Apolónia…

It’s a strange feeling… 7 years is a long time, and I’ve forgot how it feels to leave a lot of routines, colleagues, habits… I feel a knot on my stomach (but it could be for skipping breakfast) and a strange chill on the back of my head.

Monday will be different, in a lot of ways for better, but I’m sure I’ll miss some people…

From Freakonomics:

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No doubt alcohol and crack cocaine fit that description well. In Becker’s view, however, there is something even more addictive than substances:people.

He’s so right…

From Cognitive Daily:

When a person is unfriendly, we often say they’re “cold.” People we like are described as “warm.” One study even found that holding a cup of cold coffee led people to make more negative judgments about another person’s personality (compared to hot coffee). But can it work the other way around — does social exclusion make a person feel colder?

What about auto-exclusion ? Does it cause the same feelings ?