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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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future
politics
artificial intelligence
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Decentralization is harder to pull off than centralization, but if you figure out the right rules, it’s orders of magnitude better.
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
Shared by 19, including Albert Ràfols
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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philosophy
mindfulness
better living
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When we take time to ourselves, we give ourselves space to imagine. When our mind is not constantly bombarded with content, it can create.
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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religion
atheism
philosophy
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This makes it all the more ironic that public-facing atheists who speak so reverently of science tend to be the most vocal advocates of the faulty notion that rationality is a prime driver of atheism. They’ve got the science wrong.
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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philosophy
psychology
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commentary:You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks
Gawker

White People Love Calling Other White People "White People"

5 min read · Feb 4th
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equity
race
language
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more often than not, the language of racial critique is being co-opted in order to bolster some other, quite unrelated critique, sometimes unthinkingly but often cynically and in bad faith. All sense of intellectual coherence dissolves into a nebulous sludge of weaponised sanctimon
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.
Reader View · Shared by 113, including Albert Ràfols, Emma Best 🏳️‍🌈🏴, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Jerry Saltz
politics
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.
Reader View · Shared by 191, including Timothy Caulfield, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD, Albert Ràfols, Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician), Gregg Gonsalves, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦
coronavirus
education
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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education
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The findings reported here offer hope for improving student outcomes by integrating psychological theory with educational practice
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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brain
psychology
useful
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Knowledge hiding is a strategy known as “emotion-focused coping, thus potentially being instrumental to oppose short-term psychological strain responses”
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.
Shared by 368, including ashley r 🇺🇦 🇺🇦, Massimiliano Aroffo, hakan, Albert Ràfols
science
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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parenting
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.
Shared by 245, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Tactical Tech, justin caouette, Carissa Véliz, Brian Ahier, Chaotic Goode, Chris Isak , Nige Willson, Nicolas Babin, Pascal Sulser, Albert Ràfols, Backchannel, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Bob E. Hayes, LARRY ELKAN
artificial intelligence
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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environment
biology
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no one with female reproductive organs ever got pregnant without help from someone with male reproductive organs.
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