It turns out that on Wednesday, the same day the Palencar Project was unveiled, I found a package on my doorstep when I arrived home.
I’d been expecting the package. But I definitely wasn’t expecting what I found inside.
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Feynman’s Letter to his Deceased Wife
For years I’ve been holding on to a copy of Genius, James Gleick’s biography of Richard Feynman. I’m not a huge fan of biographies in general, but I’m fascinated by Feynman, so the book has been consigned to bookshelf limbo for years.
But now I absolutely must move it atop the To Be Read stack. Why?
Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Enhances Learning
In the past, I’ve posted about current (heh) research into tDCS: transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. This is the practice of using electrical stimulation of the brain to improve one’s ability at certain tasks (and possibly to achieve the transcendence from Man to Overman through the total elimination of pain.) Note that this is direct current stimulation—effectively equivalent to connecting somebody’s brain to a battery.
It sounds crazy—like something out of a science fiction novel. I mean, what kind of weirdo would imagine that wiring a battery directly into somebody’s brain would give them heightened abilities? Well, DARPA does, for one.
My Schedule for Boskone 49
This year I’m cutting this post a little close, seeing as how I’m leaving for Boston tomorrow morning. But let’s just chalk it up to a continuation of my usual problem, namely having more tasks to carry out than energy with which to do so.
Anyway. Below the cut, I’ve posted my schedule for Boskone 49, along with the panel descriptions. I always look forward to my yearly trip to Boston. It’s a great convention. And I’m a little more excited about attending conventions this year because I finally have a new book coming out. Hooray!
I’m arriving a day early, tomorrow, and flying out a day after the convention ends, next Monday.
Coming Up for Air
Ugh. It’s been almost 4 weeks since my last post. I don’t understand how that’s possible. Well, okay, that’s not true. I do understand how it’s possible: I’ve been writing in a white-hot blaze for about the past 6 weeks.
But I hate it when I let the blog lie fallow for so long. Sometimes it’s just inevitable, though. Especially when I’m working like mad. And I have, lately — working like a possessed thing. And I’m pretty damn pleased… even if it means that certain important things, like news and website updates, have fallen by the wayside.