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Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Uncle Woodrow, and World War II
I read Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) tonight for the first time, and one particular passage struck me in its depiction of memory of World War II. At Billy and Valencia’s eighteenth...
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The Cognitive Game Panel at SLSA 2008, Notes on Consciousness, Cognition, and...
As you may have read on my CV, I am writing my dissertation on the potentially important work being done in science fiction on minds and brains. Specifically, I will read the works of several authors...
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Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say –...
According to a report in The New York Times, test taking is the best method for remembering learned information. I had heard anecdotal evidence for this before, which is why my first tier writing...
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Godspeed, Gary Stephen Thompson (1945-2012)
Scanning from left to right in the adjacent picture from Christmastime 2008, you will see Bob Rainey, Mark Warbington, Paul Talamas, Gary Thompson, and me. This was the last time that I saw my friend...
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Learning from our Grandmothers: Memories of my Granny Ellis (1918-2012)
Papa and Granny Ellis with me after high school graduation in 1995. Early Monday morning, I received an unexpected phone call from my Dad. Obviously upset, he told me that my Granny Ellis had passed...
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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Thinking About Steve Jobs and the Marriage of...
Steve Jobs programming with an Apple I. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death. I wrote about it last year when I was still in Kent, Ohio–right after my Dad called me to tell me...
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2012 Retrospective: My Big Year in Review
2012 was a big year for me. I earned my PhD and I obtained my first job with that degree. I traveled for my research–first to California, then to Detroit, and later to Germany. And, my wife, our cat,...
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The Debut of the Apple Disk II, Ambiguous Terminology, and the Effects of...
The first Apple Disk II and controller card hand wired by Wozniak. Photo taken at the Apple Pop-Up Museum in Roswell, GA. Matthew Kirschenbaum constructs a compelling and interesting argument in his...
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