{"id":1380,"date":"2011-03-28T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:49:46","slug":"links-for-march-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2011\/03\/28\/links-for-march-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: solid #BBBBBB 1px; font-size: 11px; background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/2011\/five-emotions-invented-by-the-internet\/\">Five Emotions Invented By The Internet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonah Lehrer on why easy decisions are hard: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/03\/why-are-easy-decisions-so-hard\/\">&#8216;the modern marketplace is a conspiracy to confuse, to trick the mind into believing that our most banal choices are actually extremely significant&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mark Changizi in Psychology Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/nature-brain-and-culture\/201102\/the-problem-the-web-and-e-books-is-there-s-no-space-them\">The Problem With the Web and E-Books Is That There\u2019s No Space for Them<\/a> &#8216;Our brain has astounding navigation capabilties, and libraries of books harness our brain\u2019s natural capabilities&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>NYRB critique of Mad Men: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2011\/feb\/24\/mad-men-account\/?page=1\">The writing is extremely weak, the plotting haphazard and often preposterous, the characterizations shallow and sometimes incoherent; its attitude toward the past is glib and its self-positioning in the present is unattractively smug; the acting is, almost without exception, bland and sometimes amateurish<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.ohio-state.edu\/~kilcup\/262\/feynman.html\">Feynman on how play freed him to do research again<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonah Lehrer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/03\/the-virtues-of-play\/\">The Virtues of Play<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sci Am: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/blog\/post.cfm?id=you-can-increase-your-intelligence-2011-03-07\">5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonkeycage.org\/2011\/03\/you_want_more_epistemic_closur.html\">&#8216;better-educated liberals and conservatives are more polarized on global warming than their less well-educated kindred&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-04-06\/how-mastercard-predicts-divorce\/full\/\">How Visa Predicts Divorce &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2009\/08\/why-groups-fail-to-share-information-effectively.php\">Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauronewmedia.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/why-angry-birds-is-so-successful-a-cognitive-teardown-of-the-user-experience\/\">Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2288402\/\">Alison Gopnik piece on how explicit instruction comes with a creative cost<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/johann-hari\/johann-hari-thatcherite-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-2229454.html\">&#8216;But behind all this crude celebration of sociopathy, there is a better way to live. It\u2019s called kindness, and friendship, and a little human decency&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/07\/pre-existing-bias-and-perceptions-of-reality\/\">Larry Bartels graph on how &#8220;partisan beliefs strongly predict people\u2019s opinions about discernable facts&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/play\/what-is-consciousness\/\">Information is Beautiful survey on beliefs about consciousness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/feb\/22\/internet-learn-to-turn-off\">&#8216;It\u2019s as if the relentless demand of networks for me to be everywhere, all the time, were denying me access to the moment in which I am really living&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adam Gopnick in the New Yorker: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2011\/02\/14\/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all\">&#8216;when people struggle to describe the state that the Internet puts them in they arrive at a remarkably familiar picture of disassociation and fragmentation. &#8216;<\/a> (aka the quintessential feelings of modernity)<\/li>\n<li>Alison Gopnick in Slate on Serry Turkle&#8217;s &#8220;Alone Together&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2283467\/pagenum\/all\/\">&#8216;the exaggerated highly-focused attention we consider appropriate in a contemporary classroom is itself a recent cultural invention&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Salon.com on The Shallows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/laura_miller\/2010\/05\/09\/the_shallows\">&#8216;Yes, the Internet is rotting your brain&#8217;<\/a> (the internet is structurally disposed to cognitive loading)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2011\/02\/the-zeigarnik-effect.php\">What the Zeigarnik Effect tells us about beating procrastination &#8211; start anywhere<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Emotions Invented By The Internet Jonah Lehrer on why easy decisions are hard: &#8216;the modern marketplace is a conspiracy to confuse, to trick the mind into believing that our most banal choices are actually extremely significant&#8217; Mark Changizi in Psychology Today: The Problem With the Web and E-Books Is That There\u2019s No Space for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-mg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}