Why You Never Forget How To Ride a Bike
It's a sensory-motor memory thing.
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Weird Science
"Stuff that behaves a little bit outside the norm . . . ." Sounds like a pretty good description of my friends.
Something Technical
I made a small noise.
A Tangle of Influences
I like Adam Baratz's essay limning similarities between Robert Crumb and Frank Zappa.
2007 In Review
Why live through it? Steven Winn saves you the trouble by looking back at our future.
Thinking About Thinking
Another breakthrough in mapping the brain. I'm thinking that one day we'll start to understand how it works, but at least now I know which part of my brain I'm thinking that with.
Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments
Physics! Animation! What more could you ask for?
Pass It On
Donald M. Murray died on Saturday, December 30. On Friday, he filed his last column. <I>The Boston Globe</I> ran his final column today.
Us and Them
Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. took a reader's dare to spend some time in Muslim countries and "see how they live over there." It didn't have the expected result.