The New York Times
The Meaning and History of Memes
5 min read · Jan 27th · Internet culture is saturated with memes, but how would you explain a meme to someone who doesn’t get it?
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Aeon+Psyche
Horse-human cooperation is a neurobiological miracle
~11 min read · Jan 14th · The horse is a prey animal, the human a predator. Our shared trust and athleticism is a neurobiological miracle
Reader View · Shared by 253, including Josep M. Ganyet, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
Aeon+Psyche
Can music give you an orgasm? The short answer is yes
~14 min read · 2021-10-18 · A song can take you on a journey of ecstatic arousal. Is music imitating sex, inviting it, or something else altogether?
Reader View · Shared by 166, including Jason Silva, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Josep M. Ganyet, Muhammed Öztürk
The New Yorker
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
6 min read · 2021-10-11 · From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
Reader View · Shared by 153, including Susan K. Whitbourne, Mathew Ingram, Josep M. Ganyet, Ed West, Bob Sutton, Zoe Scaman, Felix M
POLITICOEurope
Have we reached peak stupidity?
4 min read · 2021-09-29 · The only cure for our epidemic of idiocy is admitting our ignorance.
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The Atlantic
What Makes Us Happy?
From 2014 · Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound in
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The New York Times
I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
6 min read · From 2020 · Take it from someone who couldn’t: Go outside.
Reader View · Shared by 155, including Howard Getson, Micki & Charles, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Henneke Duistermaat, Susannah Fox, Ben Fry, Gretchen Rubin, Carla Gentry, Christian Hernandez, Jana Eggers, Paulo Coelho, Jen Simmons, ANTHONY IANNARINO 🇺🇸, Dan Rockwell, Steve Case, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Monica Burns, Ed.D. #EdTech, Jenny Halasz, Tamara McCleary, Mark Kaigwa
adn.com
The cognitive biases that make coronavirus seem scarier than it is
4 min read · From 2020 · When we worry too much - or too little - about something, we can actually introduce new threats.
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niskanencenter.org
Op-Ed: Portrait of a Fuhrer
9 min read · From 2020 · In the midst of World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler. The results may have something to teach us about destructive charismatic personalities today.
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nature
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling
20+ min read · From 2020 · Storytelling entails costs in terms of time and effort, yet it is a ubiquitous feature of human society. Here, Smith et al. show benefits of storytelling in Agta hunter-gatherer communities, as…
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nysun.com
Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone
3 min read · From 2020 · I left my 9-year-old at Bloomingdale's (the original one) a couple weeks ago. Last seen, he was in first floor handbags as I sashayed out the door. Bye-bye! Have fun! And he did. He came home on the…
Reader View · Shared by 11, including Lenore Skenazy, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Josep M. Ganyet
Visual Capitalist
50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World
~17 min read · From 2020 · Our rapidly evolving world forces us to adopt distinct patterns of behavior, and in the process, paves the way for new cognitive biases to emerge.
Reader View · Shared by 1762, including Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Kirk Borne, Andreas Staub, LARRY ELKAN, George J Huba PhD, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Andy Budd, Stu Collett, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, AI, Warren Whitlock, Jennifer Ouellette, Klaus Eck, Terence Mills, ClearAction / Lynn Hunsaker, CCXP, Casey Smith, ipfconline 🇺🇦
HuffPost
20 Ways To Be A Happier Person In 2020, According To Therapists
~11 min read · From 2020 · If you're going to make a resolution for the new year, it may as well be improving your mental health.
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nobbot.com
Cómo los libros y la televisión afectan a tu cerebro de manera diferente
4 min read · From 2020 · Varios estudios demuestran que leer libros nos aporta muchos beneficios que, en cambio, la televisión no nos puede ofrecer.
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Lex Fridman
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
1 min read · From 2020 · Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and decision-making. He is the author of the popular…
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annieduke.com
"No, judges don't give harsher sentences when they are hungry"— Annie’s Newsletter, October 5, 2018
6 min read · From 2020 · NO, JUDGES DON’T GIVE HARSHER SENTENCES WHEN THEY ARE HUNGRY How a sexy narrative can make us forget that correlation does not equal causation Ego depletion is the hypothesis that willpower and self…
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