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Links for August-September 09

Post author By tom
Post date September 29, 2009
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‘I just lost The Game’ – Andy Fugard rediscovers The Game
A sad tale of scientific publishing
Why teams in red win more
New York Times: Facebook Exodus
Dangers of Self-delusion (martial arts edition)
If fairy tales have adaptive values, shouldn’t we be able to see this in the history of their mutation and spread?
mindhacks.com ‘Latah is a curious mental state seemingly localised to Malaysia and Indonesia ‘
Mindhacks.com: ‘It’s remarkable how little cultural variation we have found in developmental patterns of moral reasoning’
Walled World (fantastic visualisation)
Alec Patton on what it feels like to become a ‘knowledge creator’ (with a guest appearance by YT)
Tom Walton’s blog about Optimal Foraging
Gallery of Leunig cartoons, old and new
TED: Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
“I love you so much,” he would say, if he could read his evolutionary impulses, “because you have a symmetrical face!”
Gaze dependent visual illusion

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links for june 09

North of Ping Pong: What Goes Up Must Come Down
Ugly Funk: The Music Was So Loud We Did Not Notice the World Falling Apart
Time: How Obama is using the science of change
‘I have a very very large house’
My review of Lone Franks ‘Mindfield’ in the Psychologist magazine
Mann news: ‘Barak: Israel must choose two states over apartheid’
Native American Cybernetics: Indigenous Knowledge Resources in Information Technology
‘Estimating dinosaur maximum running speeds using evolutionary robotics’
Alec Patton blogs sense about jargon in Higher Education studies
Brain Exercise Training With Oxygen
Language can enforce training of spatial orientation
A blindspot for our own body language?
‘More Talk, Less Chalk: Lexically Sparse Slides Improve Recall of Taught Material’
The University of Minnesota Nun Study A healthy 100 year old brain and an Alzerimer’s brain side by side
Vinay Gupta on infrastructure: Dealing in Security – understanding vital services and how they keep you safe
Jon Birdseed – Going dark
‘The social technology of drug production: can we do better?’
Man, 113, attributes longevity to ‘cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women – and a sense of humour’
Google search for phrase “attributes longevity to” is revealing : Answers include “active life” “quiet life” “sex” “eating beans” “crispy bacon” and “sleeping for 2 days and then being awake for 2 days”
‘I look forward to an eco-friendly future where everyone wears drab and similar clothes until they wear out, just like I do. Obviously I don’t do it out of environmental conscience, but laziness and the fear that, if I try to demonstrate taste, I’ll be exposed as a twat.’
Dramatic play improves executive function in children
My article in July’s Prospect magazine on what dramatic improv and confabulation tell us about creativity
richardmasters.co.uk
Video Game conditioning spills over in to real life
Adaptive order beyond the price system ‘Three adaptive landscapes’

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links for may 09

Why randomisation is vital to infer causality (bacon and colorectal cancer edition)
Shalizi on an information theoretic test for archaeological signs of literacy
Decriminalising does not raise drug use (at least in Portugal)
The Man is Seat 61 brings you Trains vs Planes in time and CO2
Two improvisation games taught at RADA
Mindhacks.com on psychohistory (“The story of our lives”)
Mindhacks.com on the neuroscience of hypnosis
What a pitch to the New Yorker looks like
‘What happens when millions of youngsters in a notoriously ADHD generation start getting programmed by these new toys? What happens when they start being rewarded for very long periods of intense concentration? Nobody in the toy industry seems to know. ‘
Telegraph 2007 Professor pans ‘learning style’ teaching method
The Onion: Parents Of Nasal Learners Demand Odor-Based Curriculum

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The Dark Mountain Project

A call for imaginative writing from “outside the city limits”:

As a society, we no longer acknowledge the role of stories in shaping what is real to us – and so our storytellers become entertainers, our poets harmless eccentrics, our artists cynical manipulators of the market, all taboos busted and everything for sale.

dark-mountain.net

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links for march 09

Archive of old posts on psychology and advertising on mindhacks.com
Moonrise and moonset times for UK
E-prime and the imperialist razor, part I, Part II
YouTube: Lowkey – Live Palestine
xkcd correlation
mindhacks.com Patient scanned while in PVS wakes up and tell’s her story
Nick Hunt Scrutiny
Nick Hunt on the Freak Diaspora
5m sea level rise and then its Sheffield-on-Sea?
YouTube: Dude transports 22 bricks on his head
YouTube: Sad Kermit – Creep
At the introductory of newspapers: “complaints of the “sullen silence” in coffee houses, because everyone was reading newspapers rather than talking to each other” (from comments on ‘Facebook causes Cancer’ scare on mindhacks.com)
‘The interoceptive Pavlovian stimulus effects of caffeine.’
cheatneutral.com (watch the video)
Sourceforge AGG photo gallery generator does batch resizing
Clay Shirky on the future of newspapers (they haven’t got one)
‘I can’t see anything when I close my eyes. Apparently, other people can. I didn’t realize that I was weird in this respect until I was 29.’

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links for feb 2009

Winograd, E., Peluso, J. P., & Glover, T. A. (1998). Individual differences in susceptibility to memory illusions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 12(7), S5 – S27
Panic over: Malthus was wrong (the Economist)
aerial photo of inaugeration day
YouTube The Sling Shot Man
‘Rather than trying to boil these truths down into something simple enough to be communicated scientifically, let’s use artistic tools to communicate a more complex and engaging truth, and celebrate our minds as the messy, mysterious, beautiful things they really are’
‘Expropriation of the commons was, in other words, not a one-time event at the dawn of capitalism. And Malthus was the economist rationalizing and justifying the cutting off, or another way to put it is the rendering scarce, of the means of subsistence for the laboring poor, in the name of thrift and self-control and the efficiency of private property.’
‘fevered commitment – perceived failure – diagnosis – acceptance – return to core – re-dedication. If I were to look back at the 1200+ blog posts I’ve written over the past three years, I am pretty sure that I’d see the same cycle repeated, fractal-like, in everything I do.’
Drug addiction isn’t just phramacology, even in rats
Wikipedia: Mind Hacks
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
pictures for sad children
Prison life: control and restraint techniques
‘authentic tidings of invisible things’ From ‘The Excursion’
By William Wordsworth
Why climate change isn’t about the environment (via dan)
Potlatch: the rise of the economic playground
Sir Humphrey teaches questionnaire design
alittlepoison.com: edith (a beautiful song)
Edward Sterton called me ‘depressingly reductive’ on the today programme

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A journey to the Sinking Lands

Post author By tom
Post date February 11, 2009
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Dan Box is travelling to Carteret, a set of island in the south pacific. This year the islands are being evacuated due to sea-level rises. You can read about his trip and the world’s first climate change refugees at journeytothesinkinglands.wordpress.com.

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