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Some thoughts on Music and Math

I have heard that musicians tend to be good mathematicians, and mathematicians tend to be good musicians.

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Marcel

While flipping through an anthology of military writings, I came across a selection by Marcel Proust. Yes, the novelist. In the passage, Proust has a question about military strategy. More precisely, ...

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Shifting Perspectives

How we think changes the world we see.

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Attention Spans

Suppose you were asked to handle 300 emails a day as part of a job. If there are twelve work-hours available, then you would have to spend 2.4 minutes on average to answer each email, if this was all ...

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Learning

One of the ways we learn is to observe. Infants do that a lot. They look around. What are they doing in their cute little heads? We don’t really know, but there are some interesting ideas. One is that...

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Heraclitus: A Philosopher for Today

One of the more well-known philosophers of Greek antiquity was Heracleitus. What is not so well known is his profound influence on Western thought through the many centuries that followed.