Medical Xpress: Experiencing awe increases belief in the supernatural

The Problem with Unapologetic and the HPtFTU “He doesn’t want us to submit because He’s a vengeful, dickish Old Testament-style of God, who gets off on watching us grovel, although there’s a reason why He decided to put these images in the Good Book. He wants us to submit because that is the only way […]

That Star Trek economy thing “…there is a lack of robots in Star Trek…This is where Star Wars seems to have a leg up in the future vision stakes as their are robots everywhere. But Star Wars has always had better economics, it is the political economy that makes no sense.”

I think one of the things that drives us crazy is just stuff that’s arbitrary. It really arrests you, because you keep thinking, “Why? Why? Jonny Ive, interviewed by Charile Rose kenarneson.tumblr.com

The First-Ever Official Video for ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ Is an Interactive Masterpiece | Underwire | Wired.com

Cosmos and Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order (pdf) “Emergent systems are nonlinear, meaning they do not arise through chains of causation. They are instead networks shaped by teh back and forth influences of mutual causation. Each node in such a network influences and is influenced by other nodes through positive and negative feedback signals that, […]

Viral Journalism and the Valley of Ambiguity A map to online virality: “So that leaves us with the stories that don’t make it. These are the articles and essays that have fallen into the valley of ambiguity…Who wants to share a story that can be misunderstood?”

What Screens Want “In fact, designing the way elements adapt and morph in the in-between moments is half of your work as a designer. You’re crafting the interstitials.”

Country Music, Openness to Experience, and the Psychology of Culture War “What high-openness liberals feel as mere nostalgia, low-openness conservatives feel as the baseline emotional tone of a recognizably decent life. If your kids don’t experience the same meaningful things in the same same way that you experienced them, then it may seem that their […]