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  1. My latest Wired story is now online. It's about the neuroscience of screw ups: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/ 3:19 PM Dec 21st from web
  2. RT @ryansager 'Learning Styles' are a crock: http://bit.ly/8BPi6M JL: That's because we all learn the same way: from making mistakes. 11:19 AM Dec 21st from web
  3. @reeegan Thanks for the interest. I'm sure the article will be online @wired soon... 10:15 AM Dec 21st from web in reply to reeegan
  4. RT @parisreview: You have to go down to the pub after you've been workshopped. You're gonna learn more in the pub than you will in the c ... 11:40 AM Dec 18th from web
  5. What does Michelangelo have to do with the cortex? http://i.imgur.com/BYwAx.jpg 8:53 AM Dec 17th from web
  6. RT @bmahersciwriter: Science needs finishers, and finishers deserve credit: http://is.gd/5qqLN 1:48 PM Dec 16th from web
  7. @tcarmody I absolutely agree. That's why I love looking at the first drafts of famous books. 1:47 PM Dec 16th from web in reply to tcarmody
  8. The challenge of writing is learning how to read as a reader, and not as the writer. 1:32 PM Dec 16th from web
  9. The best Coke slogan is the one from the 1930s: "the pause that refreshes" 1:18 PM Dec 16th from web
  10. The Simonton paper and ppt presentation are here: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/simonton/dksppts.html 11:46 AM Dec 16th from web
  11. "If the goal is to maximize gross box office, violence/fear is the optimal content" (sex doesn't sell) - Dean Simonton 11:45 AM Dec 16th from web
  12. RT @rebeccaskloot "Librarians: The Secret 2 Narrative History" How librarians helped make my book possible to write 10:39 AM Dec 16th from web
  13. @LisaKenney Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. 1:58 PM Dec 15th from web in reply to LisaKenney
  14. Because the world needed another Tiger Woods post, I wrote about him and the FAE: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/12/tiger_woods.php 1:48 PM Dec 15th from web
  15. Writing up a biblio citation for a Kindle book; the lack of an exact page number (the chapter is 94 pages long) makes it mostly useless. 8:50 AM Dec 15th from web
  16. After watching those octopus/coconut shell videos, I'm swearing off grilled octopus. The creatures are just too clever to eat. 8:17 AM Dec 15th from web
  17. Is the increase in myopia caused by computer use? Speculation here: http://tinyurl.com/ydhyv4f 7:07 AM Dec 15th from web
  18. "Almost half [of the nation's unemployed] have suffered from depression or anxiety." A new Times poll: http://tinyurl.com/yd5v3sy 3:43 PM Dec 14th from web
  19. @ferrisjabr Japanese, actually. Apparently, it's not easy to talk about Gertrude Stein in Japanese. 3:14 PM Dec 14th from web in reply to ferrisjabr
  20. I love getting questions from the translators of my books. Ambiguities abound, and the questions show me the (many!) weak spots in my prose. 3:03 PM Dec 14th from web