Author: Aly Chiman

Recently I set myself the goal of loosing about five pounds of weight. In order to measure my progress one thing I’m doing is tracking the food I eat. I don’t do this everyday, but perhaps will do it for a couple of days every few weeks. One observation I’ve made is that after a good day, where I eat nutrious meals, plenty of vegies and don’t overeat, I tend to follow it up immediately…

One of the first things you need to do when learning new material is to ask tonnes of questions. How does this work? Why does that follow? What is the main argument here? Is there a good metaphor that would explain this? The question is the first step and it opens you up to discovering deeper insights about the material. The question, however, isn’t enough. The learning comes when you grapple with the solution to…

Earlier today I listened to a RadioLab podcast in which the neurologist Oliver Sacks talked about one of his patients who, to put it bluntly, was slow. Describing the motion of this patient, Sacks explained how the patients hand would seem to hover in the air moving imperceptibly slow as if the patient were a glacier changing at the slowest possible rate. To get a feeling for just how slow we’re talking, Sacks explained how it took…