Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away… — Medium “After reading Haidt, I’ve stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people _trying_ to pay attention but having to compete with various influences, the largest of which is […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
How the Internet, Dopamine and your Brain are Working Together to Screw Your Potential.
2014.09.11 – 19:09
How the Internet, Dopamine and your Brain are Working Together to Screw Your Potential. “For the purpose of this exercise lets say there are two types of creators which will follow later with the two types of cognitive functions involved in each: Replication Creators (RC) and Skilled Creators (SC).”
The American Scholar: Instant Gratification – Paul Roberts
2014.09.11 – 09:39
The American Scholar: Instant Gratification – Paul Roberts “But this new efficiency has had serious downsides—not least in the mismatch between the self-gratifying power available to consumers and consumers’ ability to manage it all. Humans, it’s safe to say, were not designed for a world of such easy gratification. Decades of research suggest that our […]
Three Stories about Capitalism
2014.09.08 – 12:30
Three Stories about Capitalism from: September 8, 2014 at 12:13PM
Behind the scenes with the Coen brothers
2014.09.08 – 11:22
Behind the scenes with the Coen brothers from: September 8, 2014 at 11:16AM
Fantastically Wrong: Why People Were Terrified of Nighttime Air Until the 1900s
2014.09.08 – 11:22
Fantastically Wrong: Why People Were Terrified of Nighttime Air Until the 1900s from: September 8, 2014 at 11:02AM
Frans de Waal: Do Animals Have Morals?
2014.09.08 – 09:35
Frans de Waal: Do Animals Have Morals? “The point is, of course, that a lot of our moral tendencies are not things that we arrive at by reasoning and logic – ’cause that’s often the philosophers. They think that way. They think we reason ourselves through moral principles. But underneath there are very strong emotions. […]
How Life Made the Leap From Single Cells to Multicellular Animals | Science | WIRED
2014.09.08 – 09:14
How Life Made the Leap From Single Cells to Multicellular Animals | Science | WIRED “In the species Salpingoeca rosetta, which lives in coastal estuaries, the cell prepares to divide but stops short of splitting apart, leaving two daughter cells connected by a thin filament. The process repeats, creating rosettes or spheres containing as many as […]
Click Like You Give a Damn: The Politics of Linkbait and How Feeding on Buzz Ensures a Malnourished Soul
2014.09.08 – 08:53
Click Like You Give a Damn: The Politics of Linkbait and How Feeding on Buzz Ensures a Malnourished Soul from: September 8, 2014 at 8:47AM
Quote from Tumblr
2014.09.07 – 22:03
Evolution is a relentless optimizer. David Cox kenarneson.tumblr.com
How to see into the future
2014.09.07 – 15:47
How to see into the future The attributes of “superpredictors”
One Man’s Year of Digital Detox
2014.09.06 – 21:34
One Man’s Year of Digital Detox ‘Because most Web services are “free”—that is, supported by advertising—their very survival depends on distracting and bewitching their users. Silicon Valley software engineers design apps that way on purpose; they’re quite clever at it.’
The Data Genius Behind BuzzFeed’s Success
2014.09.06 – 21:03
The Data Genius Behind BuzzFeed’s Success “Meet Dao Nguyen. She helped BuzzFeed quintuple traffic in two years.”
Scientists discover how to ‘switch off’ autoimmune diseases
2014.09.04 – 10:08
Scientists discover how to ‘switch off’ autoimmune diseases “It’s hoped this latest insight will lead to the widespread use of antigen-specific immunotherapy as a treatment for many autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), type 1 diabetes, Graves’ disease and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).”
The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions
2014.09.03 – 21:16
The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions from: September 3, 2014 at 9:02PM