The New Yorker
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
6 min read · Oct 11th · From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
POLITICOEurope
Have we reached peak stupidity?
4 min read · Sep 29th · The only cure for our epidemic of idiocy is admitting our ignorance.
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
The New York Times
I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
6 min read · 2020-03-21 · Take it from someone who couldn’t: Go outside.
adn.com
The cognitive biases that make coronavirus seem scarier than it is
4 min read · 2020-03-04 · When we worry too much - or too little - about something, we can actually introduce new threats.
niskanencenter.org
Op-Ed: Portrait of a Fuhrer
9 min read · 2020-02-28 · 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.
nature
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling
20+ min read · 2020-02-19 · 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…
nysun.com
Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone
3 min read · 2020-01-07 · 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…
Visual Capitalist
50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World
~17 min read · 2020-02-01 · 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.
HuffPost
20 Ways To Be A Happier Person In 2020, According To Therapists
~11 min read · 2020-01-01 · If you're going to make a resolution for the new year, it may as well be improving your mental health.
nobbot.com
Cómo los libros y la televisión afectan a tu cerebro de manera diferente
4 min read · 2020-01-28 · Varios estudios demuestran que leer libros nos aporta muchos beneficios que, en cambio, la televisión no nos puede ofrecer.
Lex Fridman
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
1 min read · 2020-01-15 · 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…
annieduke.com
"No, judges don't give harsher sentences when they are hungry"— Annie’s Newsletter, October 5, 2018
6 min read · 2020-01-12 · 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…
catorze.cat
Per què la gent incompetent es pensa que és boníssima?
2 min read · 2020-01-10 · L'educador David Dunning diu que «sovint sobrevalorem les nostres habilitats»
twitter.com
Brian Roemmele on Twitter
8 min read · 2020-01-05 · “Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the…
MIT Technology Review
Why the rise of the app has put thousands of people in the hospital
1 min read · 2019-12-05 · People are being distracted by apps on their phones, and getting injured as a result.
