Cybernetic Ruminations

Some of my own ramblings...

• Observationalism

• Belief
• Atheist or Agnostic?
• Free Will and Determinism
• Freethinkers' Prison
• Mysticism
• Music as Thought Avoidance
• On the Interactions Between Emotions and Awareness

• The Economics of Productivity and Capital
• The Nature of Ownership
• Free Markets and The Evil Empire
• Law
• Neo Egoism

• The Cognitive Role of Dreams
• Inductive Learning
• Active Learning
• Hermin the Brain
• Fusion-Reflection
• Handwriting Recognition on the Newton (85K).
• (See also Publications list at the bottom of my resume)

• How to Live for a Century and related:
• The Food Pyramid = The Fat Pyramid

Others' interesting musings...

• What it's Like to be an Atheist
• Caring For Your Introvert
• In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing
• Presupposition
• The Millionaire Next Door
• Spiderline Journal
• The Craig Keyboard
• The Programmer's Stone
• Why I am not an Objectivist
• Learn about Sudbury Valley Schools.
• Why Nerds are Unpopular
• The Evolution of Human Mating
• Body Type and Temperment

Reality check!

• Gender and Psychology
  • Brains of male mice more myelinated
  • Engineers have more Boys
  • The Wifely Duty
  • Toy choice among boys, girls a matter of monkey business
  • All About Eve
  • Born to Be a Tomboy?
  • Women's arousal response to stimuli appears innately bi-sexual (unlike men's)
  • Fake lie-detector reveals women's sex lies
  • Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce
• Logic and Emotion
  • The Science of Love
  • Brain Imaging Study Reveals Interplay of Thought, Emotion in Economic Decisions
  • Trust your Intuition?
  • True Love
• Entrepreneurial skill may be in the genes
• The Smell of Love
• Researchers show how false memories are formed
• Creating false memories to improve diet
• Effects of Light on the Brain
• Women can ovulate more than once a month
• G-Spot = Prostate
• Elimination Communication (for a diaper-free baby.. really!)
• Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat
• The Naked Face
• Male sweat brightens women's moods
• Semen acts as an anti-depressant
• Free Speech and the Internet
• Romeus and Juliet
• Diet Right
• Physical Attraction
• Happiness
• IQ Genetics
• Biochemestry 101 (on nutrition)
• Unfriendly Skies (about United Airlines)
• Soy It Aint So! (It's hype, but, uh, food for thought.)

If you have a letter or essay online which you think would fit well in this list, drop me a note and I may add a link to it.