Category: psychology
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Why Your Dog is Smarter Than You
You know how sometimes, someone will pretend to throw a dog’s toy, and the dog will start running for it even though it never left their hand, and then they laugh and laugh about how dumb the dog is for thinking they threw a toy when they didn’t? I don’t think that’s dumb at all.…
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Life
OK so I failed NaNoWriMo. Again. I think a major contributing factor is that, especially at this time of the year, life tends to get in the way of writing. As the middle of the year approaches, school assignments are due, and that means I have to mark them. Speaking of which, except for the…
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Book Review: The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
The singularity refers to a time, sometime in the future, when machines become more intelligent than biological humans, and technology begins to improve rapidly as a result. The Singularity is Near is Ray Kurzweil’s attempt to justify his belief that the singularity is coming sooner than most people think, and what consequences it will have.…