Hitting the links

Okay...this post has nothing to do with golf.
Here are some interesting links:

From Wired: This guy is suggesting that background noise is actually good for your working/concentration ability (although psych research would disagree)

You suggest that adding the right amount of random signal can actually enhance reception.
Adding small amounts of electrical noise helps a nanotube antenna detect faint binary signals. And noise can help digital photographers, too – injecting a little bit of random pixel noise can allow you to see hidden details in an overexposed image.

Can background music make you smarter?
The more you can concentrate with background noise, the more it strengthens the brain. Isaac Asimov used to set his typewriter up in stores and other loud places to work. His claim was that you get really good at writing when you’re in a crowd. You want to be energized by that background noise, rather than distracted.

And then there's this guy who is advancing the idea of genetic memory:

Whether called ancestral, genetic, or racial memory, or intuitions or congenital gifts, the concept of a genetic transmission of sophisticated knowledge, well beyond 'instincts,' is necessary to explain how prodigious savants particularly can know things they never learned.

Speaking of savants...
Some artists created some crazy AI installment at a festival:

The artists spread their multicolored creation across 10 high-resolution screens with speakers, each representing a different orchestra section. In the interplay between sound and image, Mozart's music is taken apart, with computers searching for the right sequence of notes that was recorded by real musicians — even making mistakes and detours — before reconstructing the final, perfect end to the masterwork.

Here's an interesting article from Scientific American about the expert mind and what
we've learned from chess masters.

Have you ever wondered what those bacteria/amoeba looking things are in your vision? Here's the answer.

And another eye related item - a guy at Penn is estimating "that our eyes transmit visual information to our brains at about the same rate as an Ethernet connection."