Tag: Noise

How Noise Can Affect the Brain Health and What We Can Do About It

Coming from a cognitive science research background, I wrote many articles about the brain, cognitive performance, and mental health. You may access these stories via this comprehensive list. In this post, I delve into an environmental factor (noise) adversely affecting the brain, cognitive fun...

3 ways to navigate through the noise

In psychology, there’s a theory suggesting that how we see and hear things is influenced by specific principles. These principles guide how our perception works, making sure that words we perceive are organised in a consistent way. This helps create a unified and sensory-rich experience. T...

UNLOCKED CASE STUDY: Harvesting energy from urban noise

However, resource depletion and climate change are now the main reasons to explore alternative energy sources. Governments, companies, and innovators have been experimenting with alternative energy sources and renewable electricity. Wind turbines, solar energy, hydrogen, biogas, and biofuel hav...

Generative Models and the Dance of Noise and Structure

I like to think about what the inhabitants of Renaissance Italy, aflame with passion for the possibilities of the human imagination and rationality, would have found most astounding about our present-day technology. Leonardo da Vinci, dreaming of flying machines, would have surely been impresse...

Why Does My Spaceship Make a Scary Creaking Noise Every Time I Go Through A Wormhole?

Geodesic Deviation is the General Relativistic Phenomenon that answers the many letters from student spacefarers who wonder why their spaceships make a foreboding creaking sound each time they fly through a wormhole! The Geodesic Deviation Equation — a particular definition of the Riemann Curv...