Letters Remain

The Wellness column in The New York Times is a perennial favourite, for the way they cover mental and physical health topics in a range of styles: from narrative-driven stories to hard scientific articles, but always with expert input and guidance.

Looking for something to flex your programming puzzle skills after Advent of Code?

Tina Fey’s Bossypants was one of the top 5 books I read this year (that I listened to, actually, but I don’t make the distinction).

One benefit of following and occasionally being a contributor to the crossword creator community is that its full of linguistics nerds (in the nicest possible sense of the word).

Before noise-cancelling microphones, voice activity detection algorithms, and the crisp audio clarity of modern phone and video calling, lulls in conversation were naturally filled with analogue background noise.

In my last post, I discussed ‘the labour illusion‘—the idea that transparency about the effort involved in a process can enhance our perception of its value.

The accuracy of loading bars has long been a joke: reaching 66% takes mere moments, but 99% to 100% feels endless.

Looking for a festive programming challenge?

I previously wrote about the denomination effect, where people spend the coins faster than banknotes because coins are perceived as ‘smaller’, creating fewer psychological barriers.

A recent study reveals that cats can learn image-word pairs faster than 14-month-old toddlers.