Alternate title: A Romer-Egypt Rabbit Hole. If you’re a fan of documentaries about archaeology (and not ones with a bunch of cheap re-enactments by amateur actors but lots of views of actual sites and artifacts), then these recent uploads to… Read More ›
Count us as fans of the UK quiz show, Richard Osman’s House of Games, which we enjoy in part because of the entertainingly insane answers sometimes given by the contestants, as we have written about before. One of the games… Read More ›
The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey is celebrating 50 years of the Peters Valley School of Craft in Layton, New Jersey with a new exhibition entitled From the Ground Up. The exhibition catalog was designed by The… Read More ›
When Valentin Nugmanov and I wrote the case “Mind’s Eye,” which revolves around bringing to the market a new lens to help with color blindness, it was meant to be purely fictional. However, since Case Master was published, EnChroma glasses… Read More ›
Displaying good mental math skills and clever approaches to estimating make consultants really shine, and in Case Master we provide a number of opportunities to practice both of these. In fact, solving the case “Cosmetic Change” requires nailing down believable… Read More ›
I ran across this TEDxVienna talk by magician Kyle Eschen entitled “The art of cognitive blindspots,” and it struck me, because discovering one’s “blindspots” is a major feature of Case Master. The key to solving difficult consulting cases is to… Read More ›
If you like letters and numbers, the nearly-40-year-old British game show Countdown is a good way to pass a half an hour. If you like letters, numbers, and bawdy humor, there’s the hybrid version, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does… Read More ›
The BBC documentary series “Pandora’s Box” is online at YouTube now, uploaded by its producer, Adam Curtis. It first aired in 1992 and contains some fascinating footage from that era. Below are two sets of excerpts from the series. Especially… Read More ›
A new exhibition about the American designer Ray Komai opened this month in New York City at the Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, 113 West 60th St. The show is sponsored by Fordham’s Visual Arts Department and was designed by… Read More ›
The motivation behind writing Zipporah, Pharaoh, and the Bomb came from remembering some ganzfeld and other psi experiments in which I participated in the 1980s. These were at the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (previously the Parapsychology Laboratory, now the Rhine Research… Read More ›
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