physics, history of science, pseudoscience, hoaxes, writing, education, skepticisism, humor, quotes, illusions, 3d stereo photography.
Akiyoshi's illusion pages
Akiyoshi KITAOKA, Professor, Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan studying visual perception, visual illusion, optical illusion, trompe l'oeil, 3D, etc. ORCID
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AMA | June 2026
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It
Though he died too young, Carl Sagan left behind an impressively large body of work, including more than 600 scientific papers and more than 20 books.
11 books that hit me like lightning
Noam Chomsky - "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"
Comics - Rakhim's homepage
Rakhim's homepage. I build open source projects and write about technology, programming, and life.
Ted’s Thoughts
Ted Han’s thoughts about journalism, technology, civilization, art and a bunch of other things.
kottke.org
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism
What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right
Steve Haroz (@steveharoz.com)
Visual perception and cognition scientist (he/him) My site: http://steveharoz.com R guide: https://r-guide.steveharoz.com StatCheck Simple: http://statcheck.steveharoz.com
annotations: La grande illusion de Trump
traduction française du billet de blog "Trump’s Great Illusion" de Paul Krugman
Read - Night Science
Itai and Martin have published – and continue to publish – about the main aspects of the creative scientific process and its thinking tools.
Reading, and Understanding Media
A guidebook, and poetry more than prose, Marshall McLuhan's 1964 work remains one of our best resources for exploring the nature and effects of new media. It's not an easy read, so I'm going to help.
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”
Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
