{"id":1648,"date":"2011-12-28T09:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2011-12-30T22:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T21:12:58","slug":"links-for-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2011\/12\/28\/links-for-december-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"links for December 2012"},"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:\/\/whimsley.typepad.com\/whimsley\/2011\/06\/an-uncertain-world-ii-adapt-by-tim-harford.html\">Tom Slee on the contradiction at the heart of Tim Harford&#8217;s Adapt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakadesuyo.com\/whats-an-excellent-productivity-secret-we-can\">Jerry Seinfeld (channelling George Ainslie) offers productivity advice for writers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Coaching psychologist, based in London: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfchangescience.com\/\">Realizing your potential from an evidence-based perspective Dr. Anne Hsu, PhD<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shilzi offers a thought experiment on economic efficiency: <a href=\"http:\/\/cscs.umich.edu\/~crshalizi\/weblog\/841.html\">&#8216;The larger point is that while what is technologically efficient depends on facts of nature, what is economically efficient is a function of our social arrangements, of who owns how much of what. Economic efficiency may be a good tool, but it is perverse to serve your own tools, and monstrous to be ruled by them&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/oct\/23\/miss-britain-of-public-ownership\">Ian Martin missed &#8220;project US&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmascan.org\/live\/\">Welcome to the Sigma Scan &#8211; a searchable repository for horizon scanning papers, designed for government users><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hsctoolkit.bis.gov.uk\/\">Foresight&#8217;s Horizon Scanning Centre has built this toolkit: Exploring the future: Tools for strategic thinking <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/460865-in-your-arms-the-weir-family-1\">Award winning radio documentary by Dan Box following the soldiers, and the families, of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment over their seven-month deployment to Afghanistan. <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Colman, R. J., Anderson, R. M., Johnson, S. C., Kastman, E. K., Kosmatka, K. J., Beasley, T. M., Allison, D. B., et al. (2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/325\/5937\/201.short\">Caloric Restriction Delays Disease Onset and Mortality in Rhesus Monkeys<\/a> Science, 325(5937), 201 -204. doi:10.1126\/science.1173635<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/the_spectator\/2011\/09\/does_evil_exist_neuroscientists_say_no_.single.html\">The End of Evil? Neuroscientists suggest there is no such thing. Are they right?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepsychologist.org.uk\/blog\/blogpost.cfm?threadid=2101&#038;catid=48\">News summary by Christian Jarrett of a new article by Scott Lilienfeld about the public&#8217;s scepticism of psychology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonah Lehrer <a href=\"http:\/\/m.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/04\/the-advantages-of-tourettes-2\/\">The Advantages of Tourette\u2019s<\/a> Studies of those with tourettes offer further evidence that self control can be trained<\/li>\n<li>Charles Fernyhough on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-child-in-time\/201008\/what-do-we-mean-thinking\">The nature of thought, language, inner speech and Vygotsky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mindhacks.com\/2007\/06\/26\/why-dont-ethics-professors-behave-better\/\">&#8216;More and more, I\u2019m finding myself inclined to think that philosophical reflection about ethical issues is, on average, morally useless&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livinganthropologically.com\/2011\/10\/22\/anthropology-moral-optimism-capitalism-four-field-manifesto\/\">&#8216;Anthropology knows that what currently exists does not have to be. 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