Neurology Meets Art

I wish I had time to write more about this fascinating, provocative set of lectures given on BBC by Vilayanur S Ramachandran. Rather than wait until I can get around to it, I’m just posting the link. It’s a lot of reading (or you may choose to listen), but worth it.

Briefly, though, this has been nearly life-changing for me. It’s colored the way I look at almost everything. While I don’t find all of his evolutionary arguments completely persuasive, even his conjectures are illuminating. One thing seems certain: the near future holds many deep and significant discoveries about the brain.

In short, we’re all synesthetes on this bus.

Bush is Wrong

Not sure what he was thinking when he said Iraq was a little like the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam. Perhaps he was remembering that Tet was a victory for us, a defeat for the Viet Cong – except that the media said it was vice versa. It bears repeating: Iraq is not like Viet Nam.

YouTube to get even more PC?

The new “hate speech” flag seems ripe for abuse. I wonder if they’ll have a way to flag users who abuse the flags.

In any case, it’s easy enough to set your preferences to get around the other flags, so this is likely a minor bump on the information superhighway.

Update:

I overlooked the obvious tactic of taking the fight right to GooTube.

Bigger Update:
I neglected to give a hat tip to Dr. Molpus for this link. He got it to me before I saw it on other sites.