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Linkfest 2017-06-03

Speaking from experience: a note on mysticism and religion Niall Gooch's attempt to expand on a distinction between a mystical experience and a religious one. Three Polish Poems BD Sixsmith agrees with Niall in poetic form. Working memory training in healthy young adults: Support for the null from

LinkFest 2016-04-30

Titan's Great Lakes Appear to be Filled with Clear, Colorless Methane Hopefully we will be up to the task if any life is found on the moons of other planets. Why is Reaction Taboo? Any treatment of the rising right in either America or Europe needs to take

Has Intelligence Declined in the Modern Era?

Has Intelligence Declined in the Modern Era?

I mentioned this subject a couple of times before. Simple reaction time data from Woodley et al.Bruce Charlton is the first person I know of to discuss the implications of the change in simple reaction time data in the paper by Woodley et al. Charlton claims the data shows

Simple Reaction Time Data

Simple Reaction Time Data

There has been a story trending recently in the news about the Victorians being cleverer than us. I've been following this story since Bruce Charlton broke it in February of 2012. I've never been that impressed, but I've thought about looking up the data

The Little Book of Talent Review

by Daniel Coyle $18.00; 160 pages This is indeed a little book. It contains 52 brief techniques for improving skills, based on Daniel Coyle's research into human excellence, and how we get there. What you will not find here is a lengthy treatise expounding Coyle's

g-loading for pilots and astronauts

With the passing of Neil Armstrong, Charles Murray gives us this anecdote about Gemini 8: Jerry began to reminisce about Gemini 8, Neil Armstrong’s previous space flight. Armstrong and his copilot, David Scott, had rendezvoused and docked with an Agena rocket as part of the rehearsal for techniques that

Genius!

Terry Teachout rags on the 10,000 hour rule in the Wall Street Journal. The problem with the 10,000-hour rule is that many of its most ardent proponents are political ideologues who see the existence of genius as an affront to their vision of human equality, and will do