January 2010
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Reading Kafka Improves Learning, Suggests... →
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“Researchers at Oxford University hypothesized that playing Tetris after...”
– Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About - David Disalvo - Brainspin - True/Slant (via pianississimo)
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Top Ten Common Faults In Human Thought →
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PLoS ONE: Democrats and Republicans Can Be... →
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Are powerful men horny? | Psychology Today →
As Woods is voted best athlete of the decade by Associated Press, his marriage to his wife of five years may be exhaling its last breaths.
Past president Clinton, former New York governor Spitzer, South Carolina governor Sanford lost their clout after their affairs. Although Sanford’s wife attempted to improve the situation, she’s now filing for divorce.
Food for thought
Are...
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How Women Can Get More Sleep - Barbara Kantrowitz... →
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - The Dream and the Data |... →
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Ingenious Monkey - 20 two 5: Care for Some Sexy... →
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lencheto:
I recently read about a guy in London, Peter Backus, who used the Drake equation to figure out how many potential girlfriends there were for him in London. As an engineering grad student, my natural reaction was to replicate this for myself using Philly census numbers. I thought you might find it interesting. Feel free to skip the math and go right to my conclusions at the end. Here...
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The 6 Myths Of Creativity | Fast Company →
Based on research of Teresa Amabile of Harvard. I emailed with her about grad school back when I was applying - she seemed super-nice!
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Male-on-Male Sexual Harassment on the Rise -... →
Rate still only increased from 8 to 16% between 1992 and 2008 (rate being percentage of sexual harassment charges filed with the EEOC by men about other men)…. but still very surprising.
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Synthetic Happiness « c-bStudios Blog →
Actually found this via Flickr, but photo people who were writing about Dan Gilbert’s work (“Stumbling on Happiness”) - awesome!
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“Some philosophers and psychiatrists have suggested that we are investing our...”
– The Americanization of Mental Illness - NYTimes.com (via sarzhaplus)
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Dear Economist: WTF? - GOOD Blog - GOOD →
GOOD Blog > Amanda M. Fairbanks on January 8, 2010 at 10:00 am PST
This week, The Economist looks at the progress that women the world over have made in the workplace. Answer: Some advancement, but still a ways to go. And then it reports the following as fact: The cost of motherhood is particularly steep for fast-track women. Traditionally “female” jobs such as teaching mix well with...
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Self-entitlement of grads can be a curse →
by Jean M. Twenge - May. 30, 2009 12:00 AM My Turn
This month and next, thousands of young people will receive diplomas from high schools, colleges and graduate schools. Those graduating this year face the daunting task of finding jobs in perhaps the worst economy since the Great Depression. They also face another challenge: overcoming their childhood of plenty and the sense of entitlement...
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Computer Science Is Too Nerdy For Girls →
Published in the very prestigious JPSP! And one of the authors is Claude Steele, a “founder” of stereotype threat!
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Why You Should Blog →
An awesome article about why scientists need to blog more and communicate their findings to the general public - not just other academics and scientists (a topic I’m fast finding myself defending and attracted to)!
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Scales Of Depravity, Part 1: The Rock Of Love →
The article starts with this:
I was inadvertently exposed to the filth and depravity of VH1’s “Rock of Love Bus,” also known as STDs on Wheels, when I turned on my TV to watch the (relatively) innocent and science-fueled Big Bang Theory.
And gets better…
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Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant... →
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The Atlantic: The Science of Success →
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Evolutionary psychology!
Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a...
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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are...”
– Albert Ellis (via heidiw)
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Run Effective, Google-Style Meetings by Focusing... →
If you’re interested in getting more from meetings than a gaping sinkhole in your schedule—and who isn’t?—these tips from how Google handles meetings can help. Of great importance is focusing on data, not politics and grievances.
Photo by ghindo.
The folks over at Business Week interviewed Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president of search products, who is known for running a...
