What's up with undergrads missing class constantly due to sickness? I've heard this is a thing at multiple institutions. My class has been repeatedly decimated.

Article in Nature about mass editorial resignations at journals:
nature.com/articles/d4158…
If you are a disgruntled cognitive science editor, reach out to me and Ted Gibson (Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT). We run Open Mind (direct.mit.edu/opmi). Free to publish, free to read.

This is my favorite kind of New Yorker article!
'Our job is to rid people of their inhibitions.'

I'm reminded of what Jean Cocteau (another great avatar of French culture) said: 'A little too much is just enough for me.'

6yo: 'Is there a way to go straight from infant room to grad school?' 🤣
Clearly spends too much time in Cambridge.

A Bayesian model incorporating representational splitting explains better memory performance in blocked compared to interleaved learning contexts. Norman Lab
nature.com/articles/s4427…

This is being hailed as a victory for public health (and it is), but it's also a victory for manufacturers who use/produce these chemicals: no regulation of the source. And it only applies to 6 chemicals in drinking water. What about our food and clothes?
npr.org/sections/healt…

Why has Lego not yet invented digestible legos?

This is great. I would love to teach a course on 'The art of spontaneity'. No syllabus. Each class I'll take students for a walk and confront them with something or somebody totally unexpected. The goal is bewilderment punctuated by flashes of insight.

Habituation is arguably the simplest form of learning, yet surprisingly it remains mysterious. I try to distill some elementary principles here:
osf.io/preprints/psya…
Feedback is welcome!

[preprint] Endogenous Precision of the Number Sense biorxiv.org/content/10.110…