Continue Reading 2nd Act One of my favorite voices these days is British: George Monbiot writes for the Guardian, when he doesn’t write books. (Regarding the latter…
Continue Reading Intermezzo Do you know those days when you wake up feeling like this? And your immediate reaction to what greets you at the breakfast table is,…
Continue Reading First (Class) Act I have a few people who recommend books to me that invariably hit the spot. Those people are from different backgrounds and of…
Continue Reading From Prelude to Swan-Song Maybe we should look this week at some favorite pieces of music paired with some writings that have the shared attribute of…
Continue Reading Self Recognition It’ll be short today – I came across a fascinating article on a photographer who reenacts portraits of his ancestors; Christian Fuchs,…
Continue Reading Cross-Race Face Recognition Any discussion of faces has to include some discussion of race. There is a cliche that has been around for years: “they all look alike…
Continue Reading For the Birds We have been discussing the specialized skill of recognizing faces. What other specialized visual skills do people have? As it turns out,…
Continue Reading Hide and Seek On Monday we mentioned evidence that face recognition follows different rules than other forms of recognition and is served by specialized brain…
Continue Reading Seeing with my Heart Yesterday’s post was about people who are bad at face recognition. It is a recent discovery how common this problem is. My…
Continue Reading Where do I know her from? This week we are trying to get back to psychology for a little bit. I thought I’d start with faces. Overall humans are extraordinarily…
