Juggling Dynamite

My sister taught her baby hand gestures so that he could express his needs starting at just a few months old. It was amazing to watch him speak with his hands long before he could verbalize words. Studies being done at the baby lab offer further insight on the thought evolution of humans.

Can infants tell right from wrong? And if so, how would you know? Come to Yale’s baby lab. Here is a direct link.

Amid the day to day minutiae of human experience, the universe is wonderfully reassuring. I saw this clip last week and have thought about it repeatedly since. I love the revelation of math. Levin uses numbers as her medium to paint and understand the vast expanse of outer space. See this BBC video report here: Janna Levin, Black holes and the universe’s secrets.

Chaos, black holes and the early universe. These are the pre-occupations of one of the world’s leading astrophysicists, Janna Levin.

Professor Levin’s study and research have taken her on an academic journey through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and Oxford Universities and now the faculty of Barnard College at New York’s Columbia University.

In a 2011 TED talk (see it here) she explained why space is not a silent place and how the universe has a soundtrack.

But the pursuit of answers to the unsolved questions of our universe is not Janna Levin’s sole preoccupation. She’s also a critically acclaimed novelist whose work explores the spaces where science and art intersect.

Kyle Bass, chief managing partner and principal of Hayman Capital Management LP, makes more sense than most in my view. Here he talks about his firm’s investment strategy, U.S. fiscal policy, Europe’s debt crisis and how most asset managers and finance types repeatedly get the crisis wrong for their investors. Here is a direct link.