Video game helps young cancer patients take meds
Oh good, it’s not my imagination - my brain really is getting tired.
The Frontal Cortex : Choosing is Hard.
Turns out that making decisions, no matter how small, is brain-taxing. This explaind why when I have a really rough cognitive day at work I physically burn out about 15 minutes into my martial arts. (I’ve learned to grab a snickers bar at 4pm on those days.) I’ve run into this same problem when I tried to play a game like Brain Age right after work, too. I can actually feel my brain avoiding simple addition because it’s too hard.
I think it also explains why when little kids (or puppies) are tired, asking them to choose things is also asking for big trouble. When you’re little, everything’s a decision - is this edible? should I follow Mom? Should I stay here? Do I want that? No wonder Chance sleeps so much.
Ironically, I came across this link while cleaning out my email after a week’s vacation. Every single message is a tiny decision on whether I have to act on it and when. It’s no wonder I’m grouchy and hungry and it’s not even 12:00 even though I had a huge breakfast. They mention lemonade in the article and I’m salivating at the thought of lemony sugar. Email is just too many decisions. Of course, the problem is how to get rid of them!
Cuil
Cuil is a new search engine made by ex-Google employees. It just premiered - seems to be pretty steady. I like the three-column layout but dislike the duplicate entries I receive in my results.
Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C.
Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C. The Antikythera Mechanism was a calendar!
Another site to keep track of
Virginia Beach Restaurants Guide, an independent, unbiased review of the restaurants serving tourists in the resort areas of Virginia Beach VA. Seems to be pretty close to dead on in the reviews, though there are ample warnings that some of the restaurants don’t get updated very often and may no longer exist.
Steven Poole: Free your mind
Steven Poole: Free your mind
is an article on digital publishing to free and whether it’s working for him. It goes hand in hand with a number of music and movie arguments I’ve heard about strking a good balance between drm and distribution. Credit to David Pogue’s Circuits column on the NY Times for the link. (google him - the iPhone doesn’t have cut and paste.)
