Explaining is Difficult<\/a> – Eliezer Yudkowsky has another great post over at Overcoming Bias. This one is about how we constantly underestimate the effort required to properly explain something. This sent off bells in my head as I strive to, but don’t always hit the mark in explaining, myself.<\/span><\/p>\n Journey Inside the Mind<\/a> – Vilayanur Ramachandran talks about your brain. And how we can figure out how it works by studying people who have had injuries.<\/p>\n The really interesting point comes later, where he talks about synesthesia. This is a phenomenon where people’s senses get blended, creating colored sounds or hearing numbers. Even more, Ramachandran continues, this process of blending senses can be related to our ability to create and understand metaphors.<\/p>\n If anyone here has read my Holistic Learning e-book<\/a> then some of what Ramachandran says will sound eerily familiar. I’m not sure whether I have synesthesia, but I can remember vividly being able to associate colors to songs as a kid.<\/p>\nFrom the Archives<\/h3>\n