Making Avatar Make Sense

(This is a repost moved from http://tersesystems.com.)

Okay, so. I’m going to assume that everyone has now seen Avatar, and hence I’ll assume you’re all up for massive spoilers, etc.

Free Will, and How to Get It

Why you should be having fun.

From a neurological perspective, there’s no such thing as free will.

I’m not even joking. The people who work most intimately with the brain will tell you this flat out. From a…

Five Minutes of Zen

I wanted to get the woo out of Zen. They gave me five minutes.

These are the notes for the talk I gave for Five Minutes of Fame at Noisebridge. The slides are available here.