Category: Science for Lay People

03/12/2015 #gotobaltimore | baltimore | cuba | education | human-rights | politics | Reduction of Criminal Age and Racism | society | teenage prison in the USA Feitosa-Santana

Go to Baltimore!

Go to Cuba! Wait a minute: Go to Baltimore! Go to Baltimore! by Pedro Abramovay About 40 minutes by train from the US capital and just over two hours from New York is the city of Baltimore, capital of the state of Maryland. I just left there after a very intense day visiting Open Society […]

24/08/2015 child pornography | Free Arbitrary and Brain | Free Arbitrary and Mind | Free Arbitrary Illusion Necessary | Free Arbitration and Human Behavior | free will | Human behavior | impulses Feitosa-Santana

Free Will: Necessary Illusion?

A family man suddenly turns into a pedophile… and starts collecting child pornography, prostituting children, harassing his own niece, among others. Condemned for his actions, he had a choice between imprisonment or a rehabilitation program for sex addicts and, of course, he opted for the program . . . but he proved unable to control […]

14/03/2015 Blue Eyes Movie 2010 | Blues Eyes Jaques Morelenbaum | Cristina Lago | Erica Gimpel | Frank Grillo | Irandhir Santos | Movies Top-Down Bottom-Up Feitosa-Santana

Blues Eyes (2010)

Review written by S.H. When I was a kid, one of my whimsy questions was if my eyes are colored differently than my natural brown colored eyes, I would see the world differently. Because I thought I was “seeing” the world through my eyes, foreigners with eyes colored blue, green, and gray would see it […]

04/03/2015 #blackandblue | #thedress | #whiteandgold | Color Constancy | Color is in the Brain | color is relative | lighting Feitosa-Santana

The Neuroscience of #TheDress

Color perception is as relative as human perception in general, and it is easy to understand this statement if we use price as an example. The dress in question costs 77 dollars. This is expensive or cheap? It Depends. It is nothing to a Hollywood actress, but expensive for a beggar anywhere in the world. […]