Brain Pickings
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
2 min · · “Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?” · Shared by 176, including Gabriele, Ines Bieler, Albert Ràfols, Anita Hill
Mother Jones
The plan was simple: Infiltrate MAGA world and tell everyone what she saw. Then she was found out.
13+ min · · Amanda Moore went undercover and witnessed how fascism has burrowed into the right. · Shared by 112, including Albert Ràfols, emma best @NatSecGeek@kolektiva.social 🏳️🌈🏴, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Jerry Saltz
Mother Jones
These Doctors Wanted to Get Schools Back to Normal. Their Botched Effort May Backfire.
4 min · · The first rule of science: Check your facts before publishing. · Shared by 197, including Timothy Caulfield, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD, Albert Ràfols, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Gregg Gonsalves, Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)
PsyPost.org
Reconceptualizing stress as a coping tool improves students’ performance on upcoming math exam
3 min · · 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… · Shared by 124, including Lee Keyes, Albert Ràfols
Psychology Today
The Hidden Benefits of Playing Dumb
5 min · · New research sheds light on the surprising benefits of hiding what you know. · Shared by 1008, including Scott Monty, Albert Ràfols
EFF
It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
5 min · · 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… · Shared by 42, including Amber Mac, Brock Pierce, Fabio Chiusi, Ser Jeff Garzik, Albert Ràfols
XKCD Comic
Hypothesis Generation
· 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 802, including ashley 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦, Massimiliano Aroffo, hakan, Albert Ràfols
Esquire
Parenting and Omicron: Why It's So Terrible Right Now
6 min · · My kids are back in school, despite surging Covid cases. We have no other choice. · Shared by 121, including Austin Kleon, Mike Monteiro, cisgendered male, Albert Ràfols
WIRED
If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?
3 min · · Part of being human is being able to defy the odds. Algorithmic prophecies undermine that. · Shared by 246, including Nige Roberts-Willson, justin caouette, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Carissa Véliz, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Brian Ahier, Lauren Goode, Chris Isak, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nicolas Babin, Pascal Sulser, Albert Ràfols, Backchannel, Tactical Tech, Bob E. Hayes, LARRY ELKAN
Aeon+Psyche
Are men animals? Yes but not in the way you might think
11+ min · · Diagnosing men as violent and oversexed beasts is tempting but it’s a regressive idea built on dubious analogies · Shared by 172, including Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Rick Powell, Jason Silva, Anita Leirfall
The New York Times
A Box of Cash, a Secret Donor and a Big Lift for Some N.Y.C. Students
5 min · · When a City College physics professor opened an ordinary box that had been sitting in the mail room, he was startled by its contents. · Shared by 67, including Deborah Blum, Albert Ràfols, Scott Galloway, Carrie Brown, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Anita Zielina, Jeffrey Flier, Ted Coiné, Michael Barbaro, The Indian Express, Philanthropy News Digest, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, S. Mitra Kalita, Felix M, John Schwartz
MIT Technology Review
The metaverse has a groping problem already
6 min · · A woman was sexually harassed on Meta’s VR social media platform. She’s not the first—and won’t be the last. · Shared by 293, including Albert Ràfols, Jordi Serrano, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Wilko S. Wolters, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Birgit Schefer, Matt Navarra, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Mathew Ingram, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Thomas Power, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Eric Bailey, Stef Walter
discoursemagazine.com
Was Kant the First “Woke” Philosopher?
10 min · · Eighteenth century German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously argued that perception is more important than reality. As a result, Kantian ideas undergird much of today’s woke thinking. Indeed, Kant’s… · Shared by 99, including Jason Stanley, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Albert Ràfols, Liam Bright, Helen De Cruz
TED Talks
10 ways to have a better conversation
· When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for… · Shared by 386, including Albert Ràfols, Stephanie A Kowalski
TED Talks
What should you listen to when you want to focus?
· Shared by 1180, including Johannes Dornisch, Albert Ràfols