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Random things…

300 actions-per-minute in Starcraft:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/07/excellence-of-execution-video-of-starcraft-mastery.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Mariano Rivera — bimodal pitching:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/29/magazine/rivera-pitches.html

The WEIRD Bias:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=7825833

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Double Vision: Parsing Images That Trick Our Brain: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-05/st_alphageek

3min documentary on infant motor learning and rehab: http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/street-carnage-films-presents-sophie-can-walk/

Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy in game theory: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306042

Scratch-Input: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/scratchinput/index.html

David Mackay's new book on energy consumptiom is also available for Free! online: http://www.withouthotair.com/

Banjo used in brain surgery: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm

List of animals by number of neurons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons

PDF Stock Market Behavior Predicted by Rat Neurons.
TC Marzullo, EG Rantze, and GJ Gage. Annals of Improbable Research (2006).

Synergies, Bah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GNzBFnUAdo

Putt Probabilities: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/putt-probabilities/

Bio-motion Demo: http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/scrambled.html

Two-envelope paradox: http://consc.net/papers/envelope.html

Monty Hall problem applied to psychology: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08tier.html

Context-Free Grammar for Generating Papers: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

High Dynamic Range Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/groups/japanhdr/pool/

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Wii-Projects: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Collective attention (using data from digg): http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0704916104v1

Que? : http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/10/can_you_use_the_force_to_find.php

Here's a cool visual illusion: http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

from some random guy at UCL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.quercia/
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PDF Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses.
Snyder, A. and Bahramali, H. and Hawker, T. and Mitchell. Perception (2006).
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