written August 26th, 2009 ·
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This NPR Fresh Air interview with Lisa Sanders is so interesting! She discusses why around 50 percent of medical diagnoses are wrong. Sanders is an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, the technical advisor for the show House and an author. There is also a little bit thrown in about what to do with health care reform. This lady needs to be heard!
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written March 30th, 2009 ·
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This guy is great. I find it really interesting to think about what our brain simply can and cannot do. We’ve all felt this before: Too much information that paralyzes us. Jonah Lehrer in this interview with Terry Gross talks about how our brains aren’t designed to deal with a lot of information. Our rational faculties are limited and he says our pre-frontal cortex can only hold 7 pieces of information at a given time! In order to combat this, Lehrer tries to listen to his emotions more, for instance, when choosing cereal in the supermarket, to decide what he really wants to eat, vs only what he should eat. If we were cut off from our emotional signals completely, Lehrer says decisions would be impossible to make. So I guess we need both. But to make decisions easier, we should limit the about of equivalent options and the amount of variables in total, otherwise our rational decision making will be greatly limited, leading us to buy only junk food for breakfast. Brain scans actually allows scientists to see the tug of war going on in our brains when we are making decisions!
He also has a great blog that I am reading where he discusses all kinds of other current events he likes to weigh in on.
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written March 23rd, 2009 ·
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I listened to this interview today between Russ Roberts and Nassim Taleb. It was extremely interesting for me! He talks about how he believes that we’ve been messed up by knowledge, that we over estimate our knowledge and the good old fashioned trial and error can work far better for mankind. Taleb was referring specifically to the area of medicine, where he has done much research on the subject. He believes directed research does not yield the results that undirected research does and has. This is simply because our minds need the freedom to tinker. We come across unexpected results when there are no limits set.
This ties over to art as well, and therefore I am quite interested in the theory. I often use mistakes or the results of visual experiments in my design, because it gives an unexpected charge to the piece and most definitely creativity. What I create will be completely unique because of my individual process of experimentation and conceptualizing. Experimentation is what process is in design, and in my experience, it is the best way I develope great ideas . read more…
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written March 23rd, 2009 ·
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An interesting interview between Terry Gross and Liza Mundy about Multiple Births.
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