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What I Learned from John Brockman, Book Agent to the Stars
The hardback of The Vision Revolution has been out for one year, and I couldn’t be happier with the reaction it has received, including reviews in fantastic places like the Wall Street Journal and...
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EarthSky Interview
Jorge Salazar of EarthSky.org recently interviewed me about my research, and you can find the podcast and text here. I got a chance to talk about the similarity between accents and color vision (how...
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Gorilla-Guy Dan Simons reviews The Vision Revolution
Daniel Simons (of The Invisible Gorilla) just reviewed my book, The Vision Revolution. Here’s how the review ends… For anyone who studies vision, this book is a must read — it will change the way you...
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Why We See Illusions: EarthSky Interview, Part II (see 4 min in)
Why do we see illusions? I talk about it with Jorge Salazar at EarthSky. See the podcast, at about 4 minutes in. ~~ Mark Changizi is Professor of Human Cognition at 2AI, and the author of The Vision...
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Vision Revolution among “Best Books of 2010″ in Brazil
Daniel Piza of Brazil’s national newspaper, Estadão, listed my book, The Vision Revolution, among the top books of 2010. Lots of great company there, including Derek Bickerton, Richard Wrangham, and...
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Read the second most popular story at EarthSky in 2010.
EarthSky interviewed me in late 2010 about my book, The Vision Revolution, and the segment about the evolution of bare skin and color vision was the second most popular interview in that year. Hear...
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Lady Gaga Won’t Stop Calling: The Vision Revolution and Makeup
Christine Ottery (that’s not her above) recently interviewed me about bare naked skin and the origins of color vision, and she wrote up her piece in Scientific American. Read it here. Also, note the...
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What’s Next, After Humans?: My new “manifesto” on our future.
I’ve argued there’s no imminent singularity, and I’ve thrown water on the idea that the web will become smart or self-aware. But am I just a wet blanket, or do I have a positive vision of our human...
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Seeing Through Yourself: The Fundamental Reason For Binocular Vision
There aren’t many cyclopses in nature, and those that exist don’t live up to expectation. They tend to be crustaceans like water fleas and another aptly named “cyclops” (see left photo below) or early...
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The Visual Nerd In You Understands Curved Space
You’ve heard that space is curved – that’s gravity. You’ve also been told that you cannot really understand curved space. Sure, you can come to know curvy mathematics by studying general relativity or...
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