Link Banana

New research is looking into the way magicians are able to trick us to discover what insights that can give us into the nature of cognition. Cool.

Am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that that no gnomes live in France or Italy?

This week’s Economist contains the Technology Quarterly, which mean there are probably at least five technology articles that I’ll deem interesting and post here. This one really caught my eye, if only because I love the idea.

But Kennedy & Violich Architecture of Boston, Massachusetts may have the answer. In collaboration with Global Solar Energy of Tucson, Arizona, it has developed a cheap, practical and portable way to capture the sun’s rays by day and release them by night as useful light, wherever it is needed.