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Personology
Narcissistic self-examination follows:As far as i know, personologyis a pseudo science without much in the way of evidence to back it up. If it is a science however, it should be able to make some...
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Galactic bow shock
So, a new hypothesis links cosmic radiation with the busts and booms of biodiversity here on earth, I knew about the wobbly orbit of the sun around the milky way, but had never considered it's effects...
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Finding planets
It might be a long watch, but it's quite interesting:http://fora.tv/2009/03/13/Alan_Boss_The_Crowded_Universe#
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Columns
Aparently I've been overconfident, spreading lies all around about columns and architecture, here's the truth:
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Inching closer to the paperless society
This piece of sweet-ass machinery from Amazon is pretty high on my wishlist.Despite this, I think I'll keep my money in the bank until Apple comes out with its large screen tablet/reader thingy,...
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Wholly Random Dictionary; part 1
Whenever I encounter a word/phrase/name I'd like to know more about, I write it down and look it up later. I'm going to start looking up these notes, and posting the here, don't expect everything to be...
View ArticleNeuroscience and Sociology
David Brooks speaks insightfully on neuroscience and sociology; how it connects to the societal divide, the permeability of the human mind, the unconcoius mind and the power of emotion.You might also...
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Wholly Random Dictionary; part 2
Thomas Szasz Thomas Szasz is a psychiatrist and academic, born in 1920. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of...
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wow, check out this new search engine :WolframAlpha categorizes and computes all the information you need; it can make correlaries, comparisons, calculations, plot data, tell you your BMI, predict...
View ArticleMetacognition
Here's an article about theMarshmallow testdone by Walter Mischel in 1968, which David Brooks talked about in his lecture at fora.tvIt's about how self control ties in with, metacognition,...
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By popular demand, Fora.tv
PeBe requested some more Fora.tv lectures, I'll post some now..Fora.tvis a really great site, which presents both sides of most of the interesting debates going on, from all over the lecture...
View ArticleCan't sleep!
I can't sleep, so here's some good reading material I found:the NY-times blog 'Ideas' constantly features great articles on just about everything, in one of their recent posts they features these...
View ArticleUse of language
another Fora.tv lecture, about the use of language in politics etc. Lots of good facts and observations.Geoffrey Nunberg about language.
View ArticleHow we decide
Jonah Lehrer talks about how we make decicions, his new book and about a wealth of experiments and funny anecdotes, very entertaining :)Jonah Lehrer: Inside my mind
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Google Reader favourites
Looking through my 'starred' list of articles, there's a large amount of good articles on the brain and psychology, and some other interesting stuff, here's a bunch of nice reads:An article about...
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Apa.org
Whenever I'm wondering about something related to psychology,health, society and so on, the best site for objective and informed summaries is apa.org,the American Psychological Association's...
View ArticlePop-psych!
A short post, linking to a pretty long read;50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive!and some more pop-psych:Teaching kids to argue
View ArticleMost interesting reads of the day:
I've been reading a bit, in a desperate attempt to catch up with the torrents of new articles on my Google Reader page..In case you didn't know, the brain is in a state of self-organizing criticality...
View Articlewtf!
I think the title of this link speaks pretty much for itself:Effects of language on perception stronger for information that comes in through the right eye.. also about the mind, but quite...
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