by Kourosh | Mar 29, 2008 | On Music, On Technology
Check out this really quite amazing use of the Wii-mote – actually 8 of them – done by an electronic musician, Tom Tlalim. There’s a youtube video of him using it at the bottom of that post. I think we tend to get excited as the images of a...
by Kourosh | Jan 28, 2007 | On Mind, On Technology
It is clear and obvious that communication requires two parties. But, effective communication requires two parties that are each willing to say that his or her respective world is not the only world. An essence of learning requires a person to be humble enough to...
by Kourosh | Oct 23, 2006 | On Mind
I’ve mentioned autism before here and here. It is a diagnosis that has been around for a several decades now. It is increasing in incidence or at least in being diagnosed. The latest I heard was 1 in 166 births – no small number. In terms of defining the...
by Kourosh | Jul 11, 2006 | On Mind
I very much enjoyed reading the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. The author, Mark Haddon, does a wonderful job convincing the reader that it is written by a 15 year-old developing with a form of autism. The difficulties of dealing with emotions, both...