8 min read
Everything is going to be fine
Psyche
Frontal
8 min read
I’m Part of the Team Writing the Next Bible of Psychiatry—For the First Time, the DSM Will Use Biology to Understand Mental Disorders
Part of the challenge of finding a biomarker for mental illness is the environment’s significant influence The post I’m Part of the Team Writing the Next Bible of Psychiatry—For th
Nautilus
FrontalBrainstem
12 min watch
How Stress Changes Your Brain
Stress can sharpen your focus, but only up to a point. Beyond that, it starts to impair memory, decision-making, and even your eating habits. Here's where the tipping point lies. #
Kurzgesagt
FrontalCerebellumBrainstem
10 min read
How to Cut a Cake Fairly
Envy-free division for any number of people — a problem that stayed open for decades, in a kitchen.
Quanta Magazine
Frontal
6 min read
Chesterton's Fence
Before you tear it down, work out why somebody bothered to put it there.
Farnam Street
Frontal
8 min read
Good and Bad Procrastination
The best procrastinators aren't avoiding work. They're working on something that matters more.
Paul Graham
CerebellumFrontal
9 min read
How to Think for Yourself
Independent-mindedness treated as a habit you can practise, not a personality you were handed.
Paul Graham
Frontal
7 min read
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Why a single meeting at the wrong hour can cost a maker the whole afternoon.
Paul Graham
Frontal
9 min explore
Measuring Fairness
Drag the threshold and watch one definition of a fair test break another. There is no setting that satisfies all of them.
Google PAIR
Frontal
15 min explore
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
A car, a simulation, and a way of thinking that climbs between the single case and the whole system.
Bret Victor
Frontal
14 min explore
Going Critical
Play with the tipping point where an idea, a disease or a fire stops fizzling and takes off.
Melting Asphalt
FrontalCore
5 min explore
Desmos Graphing Calculator
Type an equation, watch it draw, then drag it and watch the maths follow.
Desmos
Frontal
20 min explore
Immersive Linear Algebra
The first linear algebra book where every figure is one you can grab.
Ström, Åström & Akenine-Möller
Frontal
12 min explore
How to Use t-SNE Effectively
The same data, plotted a dozen ways, to show how easily a chart lies.
Distill
Frontal
10 min explore
How To Remember Anything Forever-ish
A playable comic about why you forget, and the spacing trick that fixes it.
Nicky Case
FrontalTemporal
8 min explore
Principal Component Analysis, Visually
How to squash many dimensions into two without losing the plot.
Setosa
Frontal
6 min explore
Conditional Probability, Visually
Why "given that" changes everything, in one draggable square.
Setosa
Frontal
6 min explore
Ordinary Least Squares, Visually
Drag the points and watch the best-fit line argue with them.
Setosa
Frontal
7 min explore
Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues, Visually
The one direction a transformation leaves alone, shown rather than derived.
Setosa
Frontal
10 min explore
Introduction to the A* Algorithm
A* algorithm efficiently finds optimal paths through complex systems and spaces.
Red Blob Games
FrontalOccipital
4 min explore
Nutshell: Expandable Explanations
Read explanations that expand and collapse as needed.
Nicky Case
Frontal
7 min explore
Markov Chains, Visually
Visualize how random events form patterns and predictions.
Setosa
Frontal
14 min explore
How a Mechanical Watch Works
Interactive 3D exploration of gears, springs, and escapements.
Bartosz Ciechanowski
FrontalParietal
5 min explore
LOOPY: Build a System, Watch It Loop
Build feedback loops and systems to see how they create unexpected consequences.
Nicky Case
Frontal
5 min play
Cortex: A Word a Day
Learn vocabulary through increasingly difficult word definitions and contextual clues daily.
Mind
Frontal
6 min play
Merge: Reach 2048
Combine elements to reach higher numbers in this grid-based puzzle game.
Mind
ParietalFrontal
8 min explore
Seeing Theory: Probability, Visually
Interactive visualizations teaching probability, statistics, and distributions with animated examples.
Brown University
Frontal
8 min explore
The Evolution of Trust
Interactive game theory simulator showing how trust evolves through cooperation and betrayal.
Nicky Case
Frontal
4 min watch
How to Be More Productive — With Hank!
Practical strategies for increasing productivity and managing time effectively.
Vlogbrothers
CerebellumFrontal
7 min read
Inversion: The Most Underused Mental Model
Use inversion thinking to solve problems backward, not forward.
Farnam Street
Frontal
11 min read
First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge
Master knowledge by learning to think from fundamental principles.
Farnam Street
Frontal
15 min read
How to Read a Book Properly
Active reading techniques enhance comprehension and retention of complex written material.
Farnam Street
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