@bjbalas' Substack - #SciComm from the Frozen North
Ben BalasMy home for science writing about #visionscience, #chess, #drawing and anything else I'm excited about.
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Science of Chess: Knowing when to think (and when to just move)
There are always moments during a top-level Classical tournament that I find striking. Sometimes it’s a brilliant move I know I’d never imagine making, other times it’s a blunder I know I absolutely could have made, and occasionally it’s a...
Science of Chess: Seeing moves with momentum over the board
I’ve been into astronomy for about as long as I’ve been a chess player. To this day, I have a decent collection of telescopes that includes an 80mm refractor with wonderful optics, a 90mm Maksutov-Cassegraine telescope that is small enough...
The 11th hour - or how I invented a card game that might even be fun
I try not to indulge in too many “Back in my day…” rants, but sometimes the temptation is irresistible. So, here goes:
When I was a kid, we had two computers in the house (which seemed like a lot at the time) and my Dad’s PC was the one I...
Seeing Science: How to Hack Magic Eye Images
If you were a kid in the 90’s, you almost certainly saw images like the one below at some point. Magic Eye images (also known as autostereograms) promised a stunning 3D experience from what looked like a random 2D pattern - all you had to d...
Networks for expertise in the chess player's brain
There are a lot of specific reasons why you might be interested in the science of chess, but I think in general these can be grouped into two broad categories. On one hand, you might think that studying the cognitive and neural processes th...
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I'm a vision scientist, amateur artist, mediocre chess player, and aspiring writer of interesting things. Professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
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