Tomas Pueyo
The Democracy of the Future
~18 min read · Jun 7th · What do these have in common: Elon’s Twitter, ants, General von Moltke’s strategy, brains, AI, prediction markets, and Wikipedia? The answer shows the path to the future of democracy.
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VilaWeb
La resolució que imposa el 25% de castellà, escrita en català amb més de 120 faltes
May 9th · La resolució del TSJC que imposa el 25% de castellà a les escoles és una traducció literal del castellà al català, amb nombroses faltes d'ortografia i redacció
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Big Think
Solitude is not loneliness. Here's the key philosophical difference.
4 min read · Apr 19th · Being alone can be the fertile ground of great creativity. For others, it's the door to a dark, spiralling depression.
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Big Think
Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think
6 min read · Apr 16th · Many atheists think of themselves as intellectually gifted individuals, guiding humanity on the path of reason. Data shows otherwise.
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PsyPost.org
Montessori students exhibit a more richly connected semantic memory network
2 min read · Mar 6th · The type of education a child receives appears to influence how they represent knowledge in long-term memory, according to a new study published in the journal Science of Learning. The findings…
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Brain Pickings
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
2 min read · Feb 5th · “Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?”
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Gawker
White People Love Calling Other White People "White People"
5 min read · Feb 4th
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Mother Jones
The plan was simple: Infiltrate MAGA world and tell everyone what she saw. Then she was found out.
~13 min read · Feb 2nd · Amanda Moore went undercover and witnessed how fascism has burrowed into the right.
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Mother Jones
These Doctors Wanted to Get Schools Back to Normal. Their Botched Effort May Backfire.
4 min read · Jan 28th · The first rule of science: Check your facts before publishing.
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PsyPost.org
Reconceptualizing stress as a coping tool improves students’ performance on upcoming math exam
3 min read · Jan 15th · Reappraising test anxiety in a positive light can improve performance on an upcoming exam, according to findings published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. Students who read about the…
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Psychology Today
The Hidden Benefits of Playing Dumb
5 min read · Feb 2nd · New research sheds light on the surprising benefits of hiding what you know.
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EFF
It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
5 min read · Feb 3rd · People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages —not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have…
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XKCD Comic
Hypothesis Generation
Jan 18th · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.
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Esquire
Parenting and Omicron: Why It's So Terrible Right Now
6 min read · Jan 10th · My kids are back in school, despite surging Covid cases. We have no other choice.
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WIRED
If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?
3 min read · 2021-12-27 · Part of being human is being able to defy the odds. Algorithmic prophecies undermine that.
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Aeon+Psyche
Are men animals? Yes but not in the way you might think
~11 min read · 2021-11-29 · Diagnosing men as violent and oversexed beasts is tempting but it’s a regressive idea built on dubious analogies
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