Oliver Sacks article on perception of time by Parkinson’s / Tourette’s patients

Need to track down original article from August 2004 New Yorker

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Research suggesting that self-control may be a limited resource

Rather than a will, or skill, self control may need to be periodically replenished through sleep or positive emotional experiences.

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Researching abberations in random number data

Correlation with world changing events. Detecting the globe’s consciousness through anomolies in random number streams? Crazytalk.

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Varying representations of time in language

We speak as if the future is ahead and the past is behind, but there are cultures that speak and gesture in ways that suggest they think the opposite.

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Nature article - Synaesthete musician can hear, also taste different intervals

This would have been nice in theory classes, but also probably maddening.

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Pretty good article on WIRED about Wikipedia

How it started, how it works, its daily struggles and where it’s going.

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Somewhat dated article (1997?) on the coincidence between the way honey bees dance and a geometric space called the “flag manifold.”

The bees dance in the same patterns as can be derived from studying the flag manifold. One scientist is arguing that the bees may have a sense for quantum phenomena, and incorporate that info to one another as “signposts” through their dance. Speculativ

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Hello

John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.

Collaborators

Adam DuVander

of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.

Josh Heumann

Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.

Sean Madden

The Pixelnomad.

Name Redacted

Qué mysterioso.

Tom Watson

Stays up late over at 110am.