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Sherlock Holmes could have invented Google

 
 

In this video, Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, explains how you can think of Google as “this vastly expanded Holmesian filing system.” Ask yourself: What are the things that you want to remember? Then focus on remembering how to access them.

 

Unbelievable animal hand paintings by Guido Daniele (29 pictures)

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Guido Daniele was born in Soverato (CZ – Italy) in 1950 and now lives and works in Milan. using the body paintingtechnique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions. His personal artistic research has recently led him to the combination of the two traditional portrait techniques, which are photography and oil painting, laied on photographic support in the same way as Jan Saudek. Its search started in 2000 about “Handimals” maked with the method of body painting has a great international interest.

 

 

 

 

A Mystery: why can't we walk straight?

 
 

Try as you might, you can’t walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you’re walking straight, but as NPR’s Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.

 

 

 

What the Internet is doing to our brains

 
 

Most of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we think, how we work, and it even changes our brains.