My first morning as the writer-in-residence at Ernest Hemingway's house. Info about this place: comlib.org/hemingway/he...

That’s true for the famous image, not the one above or just about any other photo of The Dress. The original was ambiguously overexposed, and the brain dutifully attempts disambiguation via your overexposure priors.

On the 10th anniversary of The Dress, I checked in on Pascal Wallisch, one of the NYU psychologists whose research revealed why we see it differently. He told me he considers it “the ultimate temporal touchstone” of the before COVID times. He was also wearing the dress (will post to YANSS Patreon):

Just popping in here to say this is very neat and hello and hi and here is another book on basic microwaving:

You can’t easily stream the original Cosmos, so I did something mad, outlandish even, and ordered the 7-DVD boxed set and am about to binge:

This is the link. Sample chapter, discussion guide, roundtable video with experts, blurbs, lots of interviews on lots of podcasts, places to buy, articles about, and so on: www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschan...

For everyone about to avoid talking about politics for a day or two, here’s a book I wrote about how minds (do and do not) change and how (and how not) to change them through conversation, dialogue, arguing, debate and so on — (link to book and free stuff in the next post - 1/2)

New episode with @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social - How our drive to resolve cognitive dissonance can lead us to change our minds, accept our fates, and become more wrong, not less: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

Huge thanks to @hankgreen.bsky.social for the bibliographic shout out in his latest video: youtu.be/d8PndpFPL8g?...

While writing a book about why it’s so hard to change minds, I changed my own mind about How Minds Change. Persuasion, debunking, disagreement – learning new things or rejecting them – what I learned about what does and does not work and the science behind why: www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschan...

Link to episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-stand-up-85397105