If it weren’t for the “Men in Black” (M.I.B.), your life might be at constant risk from extraterrestrial activity on earth. The M.I.B. are best known for using “neuralizers” to erase witnesses’ memories of alien sightings. One might therefore wonder whether the M.I.B. considered Dan Simons and Chris Chabris famous gorilla as sufficiently extraterrestrial to neutralize him […]

It’s getting late and the party is noisy. Everybody around you is talking sat the same time and you have trouble keeping track of the conversation. And then someone at the other end of the room whispers your name. All of a sudden you can hear quite clearly: someone said your name, and all the […]