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On Representational Paralysis, Or, Why I Don't Want to Write About Temporary Marriage
emphasizing sex here is a way to “explain away” the party’s popularity and diminish the consequences of confronting it directly. Focusing on temporary marriage shifts attention away from arguments about political issues and legitimacy towards essential sexual and moral difference. It’s also a way to counter Hizbullah’s claims to trustworthy politics by suggesting that its religious ideology is tainted by immorality, question the authenticity of its partisans’ loyalties, and present the party as barbaric and backwards
sex  human  relationships  gender  politics  religion  islam 
16 days ago by wrrn
Modafinil & Adrafinil - Research and Sources
Modafinil and Adrafinil are the first of an entirely new class of pharmaceutical - the Eugeroics ("good arousal") - designed to promote vigilance and alertness. This unique class contains only Modafinil and Adrafinil, both of which have been developed by Lafon Laboratories as wake-promoting agents that improve wakefulness. The basis of their uniqueness lies in their ability to stimulate only when stimulation is required. As a result, the "highs and lows" associated with other stimulants such as amphetamine are absent with Eugeroics.
drugs  productivity  human  sleep  psychology  Modafinil  Adrafinil  smart-drugs 
25 days ago by wrrn
Wired 11.11: It's Wake-Up Time
Right now, the US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory is testing an antisleep agent called modafinil. Developed by the French firm Lafon to fight narcolepsy and sold by Pennsylvania drugmaker Cephalon under the name Provigil, the compound can keep users up for two or three days at a stretch, with negligible side effects and little risk of addiction
drugs  productivity  psychology  human  sleep  Modafinil  smart-drugs 
25 days ago by wrrn
Ken Robinson on Passion on Vimeo
For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed. We need to find that magic spot where our natural talent meets our personal passion. This means we need to know ourselves better. Whilst we content ourselves with doing what we’re competent at, but don’t truly love, we’ll never excel. And, according to Ken, finding purpose in our work is essentially to knowing who we really are.
beinghuman  programming  human  video 
5 weeks ago by wrrn
Want Breakthrough Ideas? First, Listen To The Freaks And Geeks | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
When we get extreme users together in a room, we often sit them down with the top design and R&D wizards from our clients. We ask our clients to bring the ideas they could never sell internally, because radical people appreciate radical ideas.
design  human  psychology  research 
7 weeks ago by wrrn
New Left Project | Articles | Is Porn Hijacking Our Sexuality? (Part 2)
Ditum, and similarly minded women who support an industry built on the backs of poor and underprivileged women, are empowered. To varying degrees they have economic, educational, and skin privilege that allows them to celebrate porn from a safe distance.
porn  human  sex  relationships  culture  society  philosophy 
8 weeks ago by wrrn
New Left Project | Articles | Is Porn Hijacking Our Sexuality? (Part 1)
– Dines finally offers what could be interpreted as her working definition of pornography. It is, she writes, “depictions of cruel acts that one group [ie men] is perpetrating against another group [ie women].” (It’s notable that Dines elects not to look at gay or lesbian pornography, thereby depriving herself on an opportunity to test her thesis about porn’s modelling of male-female sexual relationships by comparing it to the presentation of male-male or female-female relationships.) In other words, she has defined porn a priori as cruel.
porn  human  sex  relationships  culture  society  philosophy 
8 weeks ago by wrrn
Infomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a virtual body of information similar to an autonomous software agent. He describes infomorphs as distributed beings with no permanent bodies and near-perfect information handing abilities. In this context, infomorphs are described as a form of distributed artificial intelligence who possess autonomy, raising a series of important functional, legal and philosophical questions
information-society  cybernetics  cyborg  human  future  information  bot  NewAesthetic 
8 weeks ago by wrrn
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » “Being Very Good at Anything Involves Being Somewhat Addicted”: Hard Truth on the Sheer Difficulty of Making an Impact
Bottom line: I am increasingly stricken by the yawning gap that exists between the feel-good, follow your passion, be the change you want to see-style chatter that fills the online world, and the reality of how people actually end up making a true impact.
productivity  human  psychology 
8 weeks ago by wrrn
Facebook's 'dark side': study finds link to socially aggressive narcissism | Technology | guardian.co.uk
GE includes ''self-absorption, vanity, superiority, and exhibitionistic tendencies" and people who score high on this aspect of narcissism need to be constantly at the centre of attention. They often say shocking things and inappropriately self-disclose because they cannot stand to be ignored or waste a chance of self-promotion.
facebook  psychology  human  relationships 
10 weeks ago by wrrn
Personal genomics: no longer just for white folks | Wired Science | Wired.com
recent numbers on the ethnic breakdown of 23andMe customers indicate that of the ~81,500 customers with self-reported ancestry in the company’s database a whopping 74.7% are primarily of European descent. African-Americans are particularly poorly represented in the customer base, comprising just 1.2% (compared to 12.6% of the total US population).
genetics  society  science  technology  human 
11 weeks ago by wrrn
I’m Still Not Ready To See You « Thought Catalog
We’ll get drunk like we used to but not because we want to, it’s just what we remember. You’ll tell me some vague outline of your life and I’ll nod like I understand what you do at your job, but I won’t. I won’t understand a lot of things.
human  emotion  relationships 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
PLoS ONE: Positivity of the English Language
We report that the human-perceived positivity of over 10,000 of the most frequently used English words exhibits a clear positive bias. More deeply, we characterize and quantify distributions of word positivity for four large and distinct corpora, demonstrating that their form is broadly invariant with respect to frequency of word use.
language  research  human  emotion  logic  fail 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Technology: Cognitive inequality | The Economist
The question is: is this an iron rule of innovation in information technology—that the cheaper information becomes and the easier it becomes to manipulate it the greater will be the gap, productive and otherwise, between the informationally capable and the rest?
information-society  markets  economics  learning  cognition  human  thepropagandasarecoming 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Getting ready for connected learning | Anne Z.
Anderson and Dron did not claim that the connectivist model would replace the cognitive-behaviorist or social-constructivist models but said that “all three current and future generations of [distance education] pedagogy have an important place in a well-rounded educational experience
learning  cognition  human  psychology  connectivism 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say
family  abortion  rights  human  life  philosophy  from readability
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Local Economies for a Global Future
energy  paradigm  agriculture  ideas  human  from readability
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Cell Lets You See Your Own Digital Aura | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
When visitors enter a room rigged up with Cell, keywords float out of the air and attach themselves to an individual. They follow you around as you move through the area, like a virtual mirror of your reputation.
ART  identity  human  information-society 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Why we need a 'Rights of the Internet' declaration
life  code  rights  computers  legislation  non-human  human  internet  corporate  from readability
12 weeks ago by wrrn
The Visual Cliff: What a 1960 Perception Experiment Reveals About Emotional Decision-Making | Brain Pickings
When faced with emotional ambiguity, most of us remain babies on Plexiglas — we search for feedback to resolve uncertainty, and often forget that the Plexiglas is there, unflinching — a solid, albeit invisible, support. We just have to take the leap… or crawl, as it were.
human  emotion  cognition  psychology 
march 2012 by wrrn
3quarksdaily: Is Your Language Making You Broke and Fat?
The claim is that a sharp grammatical division between the present and future encourages people to conceive of the future as somehow dramatically different from the present, making it easier to put off behaviors that benefit your future self rather than your present self.
language  economics  human  linguistics  cognition 
march 2012 by wrrn
Attempted Danger - On Dealing with Jealousy
a few excerpts from Franklin Veaux’s Jealousy Management for Love and Profit or, how to fix a broken refrigerator. To avoid confusion, he is comparing jealousy within a polyamorous relationship to a broken refrigerator that doesn’t keep food frozen.
polyamory  human  relationships  psychology 
march 2012 by wrrn
Polyhacking - Less Wrong
how I hacked myself to become polyamorous over (admittedly weak) natural monogamous inclinations.  It is a case history about me and, given the specific topic, my love life, which means gooey self-disclosure ahoy.
relationships  sex  human  psychology  polyamory 
february 2012 by wrrn
Is The 'Right To Be Forgotten' The 'Biggest Threat To Free Speech On The Internet'? : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
"To be honest, if people are stupid enough to give their entire life story and every private detail over to the public domain of Facebook, across all of their friends' profiles and into dozens of groups run by private businesses, they should not be surprised if there is some trouble getting rid of the evidence."
privacy  memory  technology  human  social-software 
february 2012 by wrrn
Interview With A Feminist Pornographer « Thought Catalog
you walk in the second floor, the editing suite, and there are anywhere between five and eight men, sitting in front of computer screens, watching naked women have sex. I am the only woman in the room, and I am the only woman with clothes on. And that sort of says it all, right? I’m interrupting this hetero-normative male-dominated space.
sex  relationships  human  feminism  media  film  interview 
february 2012 by wrrn
She-Hackers: Female Millennials and Open Source Subcultures in Europe
This paper aims to contribute to existing scholarship in the field of digital anthropology by exploring the physical and virtual experiences of gender amongst 30 Millennial-aged F/LOSS hackers, coders and hacktivists living in Europe.
hacking  gender  ethnography  community  human  beinghuman 
february 2012 by wrrn
Chris (New Zealand)'s review of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
I ask because I am concerned about teenagers who feel tethered to their online selves. I ask because I find the act of posting confessions to places like Postsecret, rather than apologising to people we hurt, disturbing. I ask because I worry that we increasingly externalise problems rather than looking within.
bot  human  psychology  technology  Turkle 
february 2012 by wrrn
Inside OkCupid Labs: Men Use Math To Match You Up
We got a chance to sit down with four of his engineers for a nice brainstorm session
relationships  human  computing  information-society 
february 2012 by wrrn
How to Beat Procrastination - Less Wrong
Once you know the procrastination equation, our general strategy is obvious. Since there is usually little you can do about the delay of a task's reward, we'll focus on the three terms of the procrastination equation over which we have some control
human  psychology  cognition  productivity  tools 
february 2012 by wrrn
My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination - Less Wrong
Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward — its expectancy or its value — and you are unlikely to pursue its completion with any vigor. Increase the delay for the task's reward and our susceptibility to delay — impulsiveness — and motivation also dips.
human  psychology  cognition  productivity  tools 
february 2012 by wrrn
Avoid misinterpreting your emotions - Less Wrong
Positive emotions, too, can be correct or mistaken. I have a tendency to get quite excited about new projects, and be much more certain of their value than I should be. At such times, I try to make sure that I'm not rushing ahead with the project and making commitments that I shouldn't.
human  emotion  psychology  life  tools 
february 2012 by wrrn
Overcoming Bias : Beware the Inside View
If overcoming bias comes down to having an outside view overrule an inside view, then our questions become: what are valid outside views, and what will motivate us to apply them? 
probability  cognition  psychology  human 
february 2012 by wrrn
Remedies For A Stomachache With Lactose Intolerance | LIVESTRONG.COM
After trying to prevent this symptom through reducing your dairy intake and using lactase products, you might still get some stomachaches from time to time. If this is the case, a few medications and natural options are available to minimize the pain.
human  health  food  lactose 
february 2012 by wrrn
Ethan Hein's Blog › Image schemas in music software
The authors discuss the ways that user interface design for music production and teaching software is informed by embodied cognition, as articulated by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their book Metaphors We Live By. Lakoff and Johnson argue that all metaphors trace their roots to states of the human body, which are the only basis for abstract thought that we possess. The closer a metaphor is to a state of the body, the easier it is for us to understand.
music  technology  cognition  human  idea  production  themusicsarecoming  extended-mind  philosophy  phenomenology  brain  mind 
february 2012 by wrrn
Atemporality for the Creative Artist | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
It is about the nature of historical knowledge. What we can know about the past, and about the present, and about the future. How do we represent and explain history to ourselves? What are its structures and its circumstances? What are the dynamics of history and futurity? What has happened before? What is happening now? What is really likely to happen next?
culture  future  time  human  cognition  atemporality 
february 2012 by wrrn
The School of Life : F.S.Michaels on The Wisdom of the Moment
I've been particularly struck by the gap between the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the momen
knowledge  human  history  philosophy 
february 2012 by wrrn
The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity - Less Wrong
Researchers distinguish between state curiosity and trait curiosity. State curiosity is evoked by external situations. Why is the sky blue? How does quantum levitation work? Trait curiosity on the other hand is a characteristic that people possess to varying degrees. Someone with high trait curiosity seeks out complexity, novelty, conflict, and uncertainty
curious  curiosity  human  beinghuman  psychology 
january 2012 by wrrn
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Closing Your Interests Opens More Interesting Opportunities: The Power of Diligence in Creating a Remarkable Life
We’ve created this fantasy world where everyone is just 30 days of courage boosting exercises and life hacks away from living an amazing life.

But when you study people like Martin, who really do live remarkable lives, you almost always encounter stretches of years and years dedicated to honing craft.
patterns  human  productivity  psychology  tools 
january 2012 by wrrn
A treasure hunt for the mysteries of mind and brain « Mind Hacks
The core of psychology is experiences. Psychologists think about those experiences, turn them into theories, and try to settle arguments between themselves by generating new experiences – in the form of experiments. But the joy of psychological science is that everybody has access to the raw material. The books are a way of sharing that, an attempt to give away the raw material of psychological science, packaged as experiences for the reader.
mind  psychology  sleep  human  cognition  cook 
january 2012 by wrrn
A Cultural Note
science  life  death  soul  human  from readability
january 2012 by wrrn
3quarksdaily: Debating Casual Sex
With intelligence and clarity of purpose, casual sex is more than instant gratification. By openly exploring our fantasies and true desires with different partners in a way that may not possible in a committed relationship, we can transcend our inhibitions.
human  relationships  sex  psychology 
january 2012 by wrrn
Study: Why Do People Use Facebook?
shwini Nadkarni and Stefan G. Hofmann proposes that the social network meets two primary human needs: (1) the need to belong and (2) the need for self-presentation. The study also acknowledges demographic and cultural factors as they relate to the belonging need, and the variation of personality types on Facebook usage.
facebook  human  social  social-software  sociology 
january 2012 by wrrn
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible,” Picasso said. A central narrative of many religions is the seeker — Moses, Jesus, Buddha — who goes off by himself and brings profound insights back to the community.
human  creativity  psychology  collaboration 
january 2012 by wrrn
Afrikaner Blood | we produce beautifully crafted multimedia
The fringe group Kommandokorps, led by old-apartheid leader Franz Jooste, organizes camps in school holidays where Afrikaner teenagers learn to defend themselves against crime in South Africa. But that's not all. They learn they are their own people - not South Africans but Afrikaners - that shouldn't integrate in the new democratic South Africa.
southafrica  video  documentary  race  human 
january 2012 by wrrn
The story of the self | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
The memory researcher Martin Conway has described how two forces go head to head in remembering. The force of correspondence tries to keep memory true to what actually happened, while the force of coherence ensures that the emerging story fits in with the needs of the self, which often involves portraying the ego in the best possible light.
memory  human  psychology  cognition  beinghuman 
january 2012 by wrrn
You Are What You Like (And Not What Your Friends Like) On Facebook [STUDY]
The study tracked the Facebook friendships of 1,640 students at an unidentified college over four years and found that students were more likely to friend other students with similar musical tastes, as opposed to having their musical tastes influenced by what their friends on Facebook listened to
facebook  music  human  relationships  culture  social  social-software 
january 2012 by wrrn
Samsung develops emotion-sensing smartphone | ExtremeTech
It infers your state of mind from how you use your phone. By analyzing how fast you type, how much the phone shakes, how often you backspace mistakes, and how many special symbols are used, the special Galaxy S II can work out whether you’re angry, surprised, happy, sad, fearful, or disgusted, with an accuracy of 67.5%
SentimentAnalysis  emotion  human  psychogeography  humancomputer  computing 
january 2012 by wrrn
Data Analytics: So, What's Your Algorithm? - WSJ.com
Computer systems are now becoming powerful enough, and subtle enough, to help us reduce human biases from our decision-making. And this is a key: They can do it in real-time. Inevitably, that "objective observer" will be a kind of organic, evolving database.
economics  computing  data-mining  information-society  human  psychology 
january 2012 by wrrn
The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
human  relationships  time  communication  health  information-society 
january 2012 by wrrn
'What It Means to Be Human': A Historical Perspective, 1800-2011
soul  human  women  from readability
december 2011 by wrrn
Why aren't we smarter already? Evolutionary limits on cognition
Tradeoffs are common in evolution. It might be nice to be eight feet tall, but most hearts couldn’t handle getting blood up that high. So most humans top out under six feet. Just as there are evolutionary tradeoffs for physical traits, Hills says, there are tradeoffs for intelligence. A baby’s brain size is thought to be limited by, among other things, the size of the mother’s pelvis; bigger brains could mean more deaths in childbirth, and the pelvis can’t change substantially without changing the way we stand and walk.
intelligence  memory  human  cognition  evolution  biology 
december 2011 by wrrn
What If You Died At 38 But No One Found You For 3 Years? | Co.Design
Here’s the thing: She didn’t fit the profile of the kind of person who might die alone. She wasn’t old. She wasn’t a recluse. She wasn’t a junkie. The mystery of how a 38-year-old woman who once hobnobbed with celebrities and had a high-powered job at Ernst & Young wound up dead and forgotten is the subject of a new movie
film  human  life  relationships  London  documentary 
december 2011 by wrrn
Photography, cameras, (dis)ability and empowerment. | we produce beautifully crafted multimedia
Cameras can open doors into new areas of experience that would otherwise be closed to you. But the process of becoming a photographer, and the act of doing photography, can change you in ways you cannot even imagine. These two men were chosen pretty much at random, and had no previous experience of photography, yet with modest support to explore their creativity they produced some remarkably perceptive work, and grew considerably as a result.
photography  human  art  learning  life 
december 2011 by wrrn
The Complicated Ethics of the Unborn | Quiet Babylon
These and other acts that try to restrict access to abortion pick at grey areas and blurry lines. The Unborn Victims acts in particular attempt to codify the intuition that harming a pregnant woman is worse than harming a regular person.
DD306  ethics  rights  philosophy  human  non-human 
december 2011 by wrrn
For a Deaf Artist, The Process of Sound Art, Transformed: Short Film
Performance Artist Christine Sun Kim explores sonic media without the benefit of hearing. She finds how to make its presence more physical, to find greater dimensions of movement, and to make a personal connection beyond what most of us might find in the everyday sense. As she describes it to NOWNESS:
sound  art  music  deaf  human 
december 2011 by wrrn
Feeling Sound, Physically: ‘Touch the Sound’ Documents Deaf Percussionist
Touch the Sound, produced by German director Thomas Riedelsheimer in 2004, focuses on the work and world of nearly-deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie. See a trailer, below, and excerpt, above. Thanks to Morgan Hendry for the tip.
music  sound  deaf  human  sense  supersenses 
december 2011 by wrrn
What lurks beneath a scientist's lab coat? | Books | The Observer
A surprising number of scientists are sporting tattoos related to their trade. Carl Zimmer explores the stories behind the ink
art  human  stories  tattoos 
november 2011 by wrrn
It Does Take a Village by Melvin Konner | The New York Review of Books
his meant that, given the unpredictability of hunting success and the human need for plant foods, the primordial deal between the sexes was rather more complex than we thought. It also suggested that women had power in these societies; that men listened to them and decisions were made by consensus, not by male fiat as in more complex, hierarchical societies.
human  evolution  relationships  cooperation 
november 2011 by wrrn
Conscientious | What Photographs Do And Cannot Do
‘Photographs are not entirely powerless: They can make us feel bad (or good). But they cannot change the world. We can change the world. For that to happen, we must be open to what photographs tell us. Looking at photographs can be part of us changing the world. But only looking is never enough.’
photography  culture  human  media 
november 2011 by wrrn
Friendship Works - ABOUT US
We work to give these children hope by providing an adult mentor who can encourage, listen and guide them through the most crucial stages of growing up. A mentor helps to support stable emotional and mental growth and wellbeing.
London  volunteer  mentoring  human  relationships 
november 2011 by wrrn
Room 13 Scotland
Room 13 encompasses an expanding network of linked studios worldwide who share their work and their thinking. Surrounding these studios is an international community of artists, educators, thinkers and other professionals who share their skills to mutual advantage. The result is an ongoing collaboration between adults and young people and a thriving culture of philosophical enquiry driven by a motivation to think and to learn.
art  human  youth  collaboration  learning  mentoring  teaching 
november 2011 by wrrn
What Really Makes Rhythms Human? New Research Investigates Perception, Preference, Tech
The research was about the correlations of rhythmic imperfections in human drummers, which correlate over a longer time period than the random singular imperfections that are inserted by some computer programs. At least I think that’s what it was, as I’m not a mathematician.
music  human  perception  cognition  rhythm 
november 2011 by wrrn
deschooling, conviviality and the possibilities for informal education and lifelong learning
human  learning  education  de-schooling  critical_thinking  from readability
november 2011 by wrrn
Yashar Ali: A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy"
It's a whole lot easier to emotionally manipulate someone who has been conditioned by our society to accept it. We continue to burden women because they don't refuse our burdens as easily. It's the ultimate cowardice.

Whether gaslighting is conscious or not, it produces the same result: It renders some women emotionally mute.
human  relationships  gender  power  psychology 
november 2011 by wrrn
The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious
human  psychology  Jung  beinghuman  from instapaper
october 2011 by wrrn
Jacob Aue Sobol
In the autumn of 1999 he went to live in the settlement Tiniteqilaaq on the East Coast of Greenland. Over the next three years he lived mainly in this township with his Greenlandic girlfriend Sabine and her family, living the life of a fisherman and hunter but also photographing. The resultant book Sabine was published in 2004 and the work was nominated for the 2005 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
photography  human  relationships  art  artists  documentary  media 
october 2011 by wrrn
Roman Opałka | TRIANGULATION BLOG
'My objective is to get up to the white on white and still be alive.' As of July 2004, he had reached 5.5 million. Adopting this rigorously serialized approach, Opałka aligned himself with many other artists of the time who explored making art through systems and mathematics
art  human  mathematics  process  painting  artists 
october 2011 by wrrn
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Archive | Nan Goldin
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1981-96) had by then been embraced as a panacea for all the excesses of irony and materialism of the 1980s. Critics were clamouring for a return to ‘the real’, and gallerists and collectors thought they’d found their authentic selves reflected in these romantic images of the denizens of Manhattan’s demi-monde
photography  NanGoldin  human  relationships 
october 2011 by wrrn
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Art Rules
The point is: your years studying are a luxurious time to read, absorb, obsess, get jaded, experiment with hallucinogens, work on your Twitter feed and so on. However, after spending four years in college and seven on a doctorate and teaching, I learned more about art in one year working at the Walker Art Center than in any school
human  productivity  art  work  life  beinghuman 
october 2011 by wrrn
Coding Horror: Suspension, Ban or Hellban?
A hellbanned user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the community but nobody ever responds to them. They can no longer disrupt the community because they are effectively a ghost. It's a clever way of enforcing the "don't feed the troll" rule in the community.
human  communication  interface  interaction_design  internet  community  social 
october 2011 by wrrn
Regulating The Algorithm? « (Re)Structuring Journalism
What happens when the ideals of net neutrality meet personalization and the filter bubble? How do you regulate an algorithm – and should you, and can you?
data-mining  information-society  algorithms  human  identity  net-neutrality 
october 2011 by wrrn
London – Meditation: MBSR – Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Programme
Susann Herrmann, CPsychol./OccupPsychol.(MA)

Trained by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Founder and former Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic,
former Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness
and Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School
meditation  London  learning  human  cognition  health  beinghuman 
october 2011 by wrrn
The New Atlantis » Psychology's Magician
In embracing the strangeness of the human psyche from within itself, he remains that father of psychology who still threatens to upend our view of ourselves.
psychology  Jung  human  ideas  history  people  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Horizon, 2010-2011, Is Seeing Believing?
Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us.
tv  BBC  senses  human  cognition  perception  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
McGurk effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. It suggests that speech perception is multimodal, that is, that it involves information from more than one sensory modality.
audio  visual  cognition  human  perception  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
Inspiration and Chai
When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five:
human  life  death  psychology  work  relationships  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
Bookend Your Day: The Power of Morning and Evening Routines | The Art of Manliness
Today we’re going to talk about one of the very best: “bookending” your day with a morning and evening routine.
human  behavior  beinghuman  productivity  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
MIT OpenCourseWare | Linguistics and Philosophy | 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2005 | Home
This core-curriculum linguistics class will provide some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Topics include the intricate system that governs language, how it is acquired, the similarities and differences among languages, and how spoken (and signed) language relates to written language, among others.
linguistics  language  human  learning  MIT-OpenCourseWare  theory  Online-Courses  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will : Nature News
Mele is hopeful that other philosophers will become better acquainted with the science of conscious intention. And where philosophy is concerned, he says, scientists would do well to soften their stance. "It's not as though the task of neuroscientists who work on free will has to be to show there isn't any." 
neuroscience  philosophy  freedom  human  nature  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
BBC News - New emotion detector can see when we're lying
So far, the team has only tested its lie detector on willing volunteers rather than in a real-life, high stakes situation. Later this year, though, they plan to deploy it in a UK airport, probably running alongside experienced immigration officers as they conduct security interviews
technology  human  surveillance  privacy  panopticon  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
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