Archive for January, 2008

unparticles and ununiverses

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

unparticles

Just today a friend of mine pointed out to me an article in the New Scientist about unparticles - these are the particles that Physicists are looking for to explain dark matter. I found this amusing as I have only recently posted the previous post about my book “Unpossible Thinking”.

If the universe is conspiring the question is which universe :-)

To find out more have a look at:

new scientist abstract

or a fuller article at:

Universe Today

colour sudoku

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Warwick university researchers (in education) have come up with a version of Sudoku which uses colour as well as numbers.

http://www.warwick.ac.uk

I find this really interesting because colour is a right brain function so I would assume that playing this game will be getting you to think more right brain.

This is also interesting because other research on the size of the hippocampuses (hippocampi) [which is the area of the brain involved in location finding ability] of London Cab drivers suggests that stimuation of a specific part of the brain causes it to physically grow and perform better.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX032958.html

So maybe playing colour sudoku could develop your right brain thinking.

Other people’s heads

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

When one person tries to communicate with another person, they take an idea in their head, turn it into language and speak that language to the other person. The other person hears the words and translates those words into ideas in their own head.

One of the challenges in this process is that words mean different things to different people and have different associations. Another challenge is that each person’s view of the world is different.

So this process leads to much confusion and misunderstanding.

How would it be possible to get into another person’s head? Or how would it be possible to get an idea across to another person clearly and unambiguously?