Category Archives: Delicious

Alternate Sleep Cycles | High Existence

This explains Skalman’s clock.

Everything You Know About Education Is Wrong – Jordan Weissmann – Business – The Atlantic

Study reveals what correlates with high test scores. My question is, what goals of education do high test scores correlate with?

Questions for the Republican Candidates – Anil Dash

Wonder what the equivalent of this list would be for Democrats?

Cosmic Log – Can physicists crack the big puzzle?

“If you’re a Beethoven, if you’re proposing some symphony and you don’t publish it, the chance that somebody else will create the very same symphony someday … well, that just doesn’t happen. But in the case of science, nature has already constructed the symphony, and we’re trying to find what it is.”

A Response to Alva Noë’s “Art and the Limits of Neuroscience” : The Beautiful Brain

Vowels Control Your Brain : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

John Ohala (my wife’s linguistics prof in college) gets a mention!

Glenn Reynolds: Let’s put colleges on the hook for loans that their students can’t repay « Hot Air

Cutting their own throats – Charlie’s Diary

How Amazon’s ebook monopoly is fueled by publisher’s insistence on DRM.

Tolkien on right vs wrong

“Tolkien, not being a modern liberal, thought it more interesting to explore situations when people know what they need to know but may lack the strength of will to act on that knowledge.”

How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street | The Ticket – Yahoo! News

luntzisms

Infants prefer a nasty moose if it punishes an unhelpful elephant | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

“Instead, they can tell the difference between appropriate reward and punishment according to the context. To me this says that toddlers already have more or less adult moral understanding. Isn’t this amazing?”

The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value – Forbes

“In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has exploded while corporate performance has declined. “Maximizing shareholder value” turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure.”

Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable? – Kenneth Rogoff – Project Syndicate

“The truth of the matter is that, for now at least, the only serious alternatives to today’s dominant Anglo-American paradigm are other forms of capitalism.”

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix – IEEE Spectrum

“In 1956, AT&T had agreed to a U.S government consent decree that prevented the company from selling products not directly related to telephones and telecommunications, in return for its legal monopoly status in running the country’s long-distance phone service. So Unix could not be sold as a product.”

The Hidden Potential of Autistic Kids: Scientific American

Recognizing these talents, rather than pushing them aside to focus on the drawbacks of autism, could benefit not just autistic people, but everyone else as well.

How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps) – Forbes

Jessica Hagy (Indexed)

Upside Down: What Business Problem-Solving Gets Wrong | A human capitalist

The Neurocritic: Wrigley-Funded Study Finds Chewing Gum May Help Reduce Stress

It’s so easy to glaze over who is funding a study, isn’t it?

With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again – Forbes

Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor – (37signals)