Everybody knows it is impossible to open one’s eye before the first cappuccino in the morning.
This is why homo sapiens has evolved smell, touch and hearing.
Now, a true visionary at Scanomat (http://www.scanomat.com/) has developed the Top Brewer espresso machine.
It’s possible to make barista standard espresso with frothed milk of your choice with just the touch of a button on your iPhone. Combine this with Siri voice control and you won’t need to open your eyes.
This means that you need to have a paid subscription to read articles on their site, or to use their iPad app.(App Review in WILT)
This ‘digital pass’ to the Australian costs $2.95 per week.
However, for the next three days you can get a free three month Digital Pass subscription. Register at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe. Offer closes December 15th.
(Austech forums points out that even without a digital pass you can still access individual articles through Google News.)
Why waste time reading the adventures ot the Poky Little Puppy and travelling the world with Scuppers the sailor dog?
Millie will get quite a surprise when she opens her stocking from Santa this Xmas. I’ve asked the big man to bring some special presents from Nerdy Baby and Think Geek.
Introductory Calculus for Infants is the storybook adventure of two friends as they discover the wonders of calculus. “If I’ve told you n times, I’ve told you n + 1 times… clean your room”. Because life is all arithmetic
I spent way too much time colouring-in pictures of Richie Rich and the Wacky Races. How easy would physiology have been if I had The Coloring Book For Very Young Scientists. Over 60 pages with puzzles and activities like colouring intracellular components, counting subatomic particles, and a simple board game following a little girl as she studies to get her PhD. Can you find the complete circuit? Can you identify different types of cellular life? Or help Darwin’s finches choose their next meal?
Finally, in a world where elements collide, only you can create order out of chaos. The Peridoic Table Building Blocks allow you to ‘learn while you build’.
Prof Kahneman may be the only non-economist to win the Noble Prize for Economics (2002). He is professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University, and is known as one of the ‘fathers’ of the field of Behavioural Economics for his work on the psychology of judgement and decision making. He has often been included in lists of the world’s great thinkers.
In the TED talk below, from October 2010, Professor Kaheman explains that each of us is made up of two selves – the experiencing self and the remembering self.
The experiencing self lives each of the 600 million ‘psychological moments’ that make up our lives. The remembering self ‘keeps score’, and constructs the stories through which we create memory and meaning.
The remembering self is the one that makes most of our decisions. Kahneman makes the point that we seem to choose our vacations in service of the remembering self, rather than the experiencing self – thinking of our future as anticipated memories. Yet we spend very little time ‘consuming’ these memories. (You can think of this the next time you see someone spending their wedding day creating photos, rather than enjoying the ‘experiencing self’.)
The question of whether one is happy therefore is a ‘cognitive trap’. Whether one is satisfied with one’s life in general has a poor correlation with how one is feeling at the moment.
Just recently, Kahneman released his new book ‘Thinking Fast and Slow‘, which describes the two systems that drive the way we think (Intuitive and emotional, or deliberative and logical). It has been judged as one of the best books of 2011.
I think this is a terrific example of a TED talk. We have mentioned TED previously. Incidentally, last week TED released a new iPad and iPhone app which allows you to download and save selected talks, and also has a ‘radio’ function that automatically streams talks of interest.
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