from: November 16, 2015 at 07:05AM
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What Higher Consciousness Really Means, How We Attain It, and What It Does for the Human Spirit
A Brief History of Social Media (The Stuff You Probably Didn’t Already Know) And 4 Predictions on its Future
from: November 16, 2015 at 06:36AM
The Brain’s GPS May Also Help Us Map Our Memories
from: November 16, 2015 at 06:29AM
The Key to Political Persuasion
“Maybe reframing political arguments in terms of your audience’s morality should be viewed less as an exercise in targeted, strategic persuasion, and more as an exercise in real, substantive perspective taking. To do it, you have to get into the heads of the people you’d like to persuade, think about what they care about and make arguments that embrace their principles. If you can do that, it will show that you view those with whom you disagree not as enemies, but as people whose values are worth your consideration.”
What’s Happening to the Number and Size of Nations?
“we expect that demand for autonomy and independence will remain high, as long as the world continues to be democratic, peaceful and open. But we also expect that such demand will be much less likely to bring about costly breakups and divisions if national governments and supranational organizations do not try to maintain the status quo at all costs, but are open to change and tolerant of diverse preferences within their borders.”
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It's not a prison, honey. You're in a "creativity tower." pic.twitter.com/voOyhexfgw
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) November 13, 2015
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Some lessons from @statcast, yr 1. Here's one: Pitch velo doesn't really lead to exit velo. https://t.co/UnZ1g0VvjW pic.twitter.com/wp6Q1PjvI3
— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) November 13, 2015
PASS Networks – Nylon Calculus
“At first glance, it may seem that this is no better than just looking at Assists statistics. I would disagree – aggregate stats are great, but not at the nuance. PASS Networks show the connectivity (or lack thereof) across teammates.”
What the Democratic party will look like when Silicon Valley takes over
“The new innovation-obsessed liberal will split the party, creating a libertarian-cousin within the Democratic Party.”
Is great philosophy, by its nature, difficult and obscure?
from: November 11, 2015 at 11:02PM
Training Girls and Women To Win- Part Two
Training Girls and Women To Win- Part Two
Training Girls and Women To Win- Part 1
Training Girls and Women To Win- Part 1
Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated
from: November 11, 2015 at 05:58PM
The marginal emotional taxes on women are high
from: November 11, 2015 at 05:55PM
A New Way of Thinking About Spacetime That Turns Everything Inside Out
Likewise, space might be built of pieces that are not themselves spatial. Those pieces might also be disassembled and reassembled into non spatial structures such as the ones that black holes and the big bang are hinting at. “Spacetime can’t be fundamental,” says the theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed. “It has to come out of something more basic.”
A how-to for online education videos
“Based on such research and my own experience in the trenches—and always keeping in mind that today’s net gen “consumer-student” is accustomed to fancy and punchy video—I offer “Ten Commandments” of developing engaging and pedagogically sound online content.”
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Baseball Prospectus | Winning By Design https://t.co/dOsF5Ksaa2 by @jjq01
— Craig Goldstein (@cdgoldstein) November 10, 2015
Safe Spaces As Shield, Safe Spaces As Sword
“I support people creating “safe spaces” as a shield by exercising their freedom of association to organize themselves into mutually supporting communities, run according to their own norms. But not everyone imagines “safe spaces” like that. Some use the concept of “safe spaces” as a sword, wielded to annex public spaces and demand that people within those spaces conform to their private norms. That’s not freedom of association. That’s rank thuggery, a sort of ideological manifest destiny.”