on learning
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Archived Posts (Week of July 23, 2012)
the urburb
embodied caffeination
the selfish debate over altruism
creating compassion
what we listen to when we listen to music
mating seasons
the insula
feeling the right password
lying lie detectors
on laughing
the painful news
reality on the line
karma police
hypersensitive narcissism
anger online:
on recognition
The Boss
a funny study
tragicomics
social network analysis
retaliation (with a twist):
Archived Posts (Week of July 16, 2012)
neuroscience in the courts
forensic linguists
mid-life friendships
Spike Lee was right
the limits
your friends and neighbors
the Delboeuf illusion
a S&M contract:
the NoiseJammer
forensic linguists
mid-life friendships
Spike Lee was right
the limits
your friends and neighbors
the Delboeuf illusion
a S&M contract:
the NoiseJammer
Archived Posts (Week of July 9, 2012)
say (and pretend) that you love me
on content
the conscious pause
act before you think
Dr. Nabokov
In God We Text
the core self
painting big words
red and black
modern music
on certainty
the trifles
treating optimism
Take This Interview
Kandel on negative symptoms
race and the bus
learning from invertebrates
perfect pitch
on money
think like a bee
violent daydreamers
describing digitally
when crowds attack
the back door
the downside to anger
the physician-god
hearing touches
size (of the right temporoparietal junction) matters
the varieties of elitist experience
the blue states of liberals
astrocytes and memory
a pimp article
projection bias
projection bias in relationships
The Pygmalion Effect
remembering too much and nothing at all
exploiting dumb women
Archived Posts (Week of July 2, 2012)
a random page from Nietzsche: priceless
beauty: the diagnosis
the upside of the scatterbrained
on TED
whatcha lookin' at
hu(mania):
on monogamy
the pursuit of unhappiness
a counterpoint
I, Prozac
the myth of the skills gap
shopping to intelligence
through the language glass
Saving Detroit, one zombie at a time
pop-up cinema
the pain
the land of anxiety
horse-play
The GAN
on selfishness
uncaged
while you were sleeping
loud music
learned synesthesia
the quintessence of dust
on hope
seducing life
long-term working memory
this is your brain on moral dilemmas
the myth of integration
the bystander effect revisited
Orwell on writers:
not as cool
on dishonesty
on incentives
on curiosity
smiling is my favorite
the foot fetish
mirror, mirror, on the cortex
multi-level selection
modeling monogamy
serotonin and Parkinson's
existentialism and the other woman
free will, revisited
the Lehrer effect
on fear
literary bonding
the book on the train
The tau of Squirrels
while we wait
the neuroscience of race
the eye(s) of the beholder
a juvenile brain on trial
the decline of roaming
oxytocin in the office
asexuality or abstinence by default
the urban soundtrack
the lipstick effect
real fake books:
the paradox of mate selection
chronotypes and impulse control
head sounds
the philosopher map
Radiohead and innovation
on chores
Archived Posts (Week of June 18, 2012)
antidepressants and identity
good stress
stealing anger
against dreams
the muse
who we see on TV and what we believe
asymmetrical findings on facial symmetry
less than human
stop the bus(stop)
the unfriended
in search of lost (monochronic) time
cafes and creativity
stimulus sample size
open-source magic
the talking (about ourselves) cure, or curse
why we laugh
the rod and the frame
on gurus
mirror-image twins
synthetic sociology
what we lose when we lose a language
(serving) size matters
doctors and empathy
Zizek on Hegel
The hypocrisy of nice guys
overdressed
psychology as usual
war journalism vs. journaling war:
what's art?
the adultescent
phantom vibrations:
The Ascent
the magic of illusions
Archived Posts (Week of June 11, 2012)
cognitive enhancements
the green light
on cool
personality-informed ads
the letting go
infantile memories
read to impress
presence and sensations
stupid smart people
dominance within submission
righteousness and the political divide
smart people are just better at pretending they're not stupid
talking to voices
evolution of waiting
neither nature nor nurture, discuss
wine, what is it good for?
the cloud cloak
cafe wars
memory part 2
say it like you mean it, in a different language
tiger fathers
non-reading
Archived Posts (Week of June 4, 2012)
Roschach 2.0?
applying addiction criteria to Facebook
antidepressants
DSM-V: PR to the rescue
We're the Flintstones (and you're not)
psychological benefits to giving shit away
piloting errors
Chris Rock, evolutionary psychologist: parts 1, 2, and 3
needle(s) in the haystack
the neuroscience of regret
pick-up artistry
quitting to get ahead
the bell-shaped bias
mentalization and religious beliefs:
on imagination
The Truman Show delusion
maybe we don't really want to be happy
madness and creativity
antidepressants
DSM-V: PR to the rescue
We're the Flintstones (and you're not)
psychological benefits to giving shit away
piloting errors
Chris Rock, evolutionary psychologist: parts 1, 2, and 3
needle(s) in the haystack
the neuroscience of regret
pick-up artistry
quitting to get ahead
the bell-shaped bias
mentalization and religious beliefs:
on imagination
The Truman Show delusion
maybe we don't really want to be happy
madness and creativity
I don't feel your people's pain
aural feedback in toddlers
standardized and sterilized
perhaps we are driving ourselves away from each other
aural feedback in toddlers
standardized and sterilized
perhaps we are driving ourselves away from each other
self-esteem vs. narcissism
five models of mental illness
cultivating awe
mind-machine
deja vu: the uncanny and the dissimilar
the reputation bank
the neuroscience of choking
the importance not paying (too much) attention
the tortoise wins again
the fine line between creativity and dishonesty
against eureka god moments
five models of mental illness
cultivating awe
mind-machine
deja vu: the uncanny and the dissimilar
the reputation bank
the neuroscience of choking
the importance not paying (too much) attention
the tortoise wins again
the fine line between creativity and dishonesty
against eureka god moments
are we all Asian?
sadness and wisdom
diffusion of responsibility
you are the easiest person to fool
unlearning what feels true
"a poem is like a note sealed in a bottle and thrown into the sea"
enhancing distractibility
displays of creativity
another reason not to buy knock-offs
deep conversations
racism, French-style
hierarchies matter
the good narcissist
the good-enough
sadness and wisdom
diffusion of responsibility
you are the easiest person to fool
unlearning what feels true
"a poem is like a note sealed in a bottle and thrown into the sea"
enhancing distractibility
displays of creativity
another reason not to buy knock-offs
deep conversations
racism, French-style
hierarchies matter
the good narcissist
the good-enough
Archived Posts (Week of May 28, 2012)
eyewitness testimony
plasticity at the neuronal level
the steps of forgetting
on blinking
on cheating
hypnic jerks
malfunctioning MRI
the walkability premium
the essentialness of piercing the skin
cultural cognition epitomized by climate change debate
dumb women and the men who love them
the fairness problem
love and/or death
prosperity vs. posterity for writers
practically prescribing the elements of style
who's happy is determined by moral judgments
the unconscious: Freud vs. Coleridge
with one eye open
you're still fat
a living room of society-at-large
top 10 literary bars in Manhattan
the self illusion
Burgess on oranges
be a tourist in your own city
apocalyptic American fiction
I, Sci-Fi
on horror movies
that old people smell
are we getting smarter, or are the knowledge kernels just more buttery?
the mortality paradox
social networks
the Dunbar number
on eye contact
pair bonding: moving away from promiscuity
Wes Anderson, on collaboration
studying literary influences
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