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26 May 09

In Defense of Distraction

  • Over the last twenty years, Meyer and a host of other researchers have proved again and again that multitasking, at least as our culture has come to know and love and institutionalize it, is a myth. When you think you’re doing two things at once, you’re almost always just switching rapidly between them, leaking a little mental efficiency with every switch. Meyer says that this is because, to put it simply, the brain processes different kinds of information on a variety of separate “channels”—a language channel, a visual channel, an auditory channel, and so on—each of which can process only one stream of information at a time. If you overburden a channel, the brain becomes inefficient and mistake-prone.
  • The only time multitasking does work efficiently, Meyer says, is when multiple simple tasks operate on entirely separate channels—for example, folding laundry (a visual-manual task) while listening to a stock report (a verbal task).
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10 Mar 09

Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts: Scientific American

  • “Born to be good” for me means that our mammalian and hominid evolution have crafted a species—us—with remarkable tendencies toward kindness, play, generosity, reverence and self-sacrifice, which are vital to the classic tasks of evolution—survival, gene replication and smooth functioning groups.
  • Darwin-inspired studies have revealed that our capacity for caring, for play, for reverence and modesty are built into our brains, bodies, genes and social practices
09 Dec 08

Are Chemists, Engineers on Green Jobs List? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

  • What might happen if a president sought not to shrink the military research pie, but simply devote more of it to transformational technologies related to harvesting, storing, or moving energy (something I put on the recent Dot Earth list of low-budget ways a president might improve the planet)?

Worldchanging: Greening the Intellectual Infrastructure

we need to train a whole generation (and re-train an earlier generation) of bright green professionals in a host of fields, fields as varied as urban planning, law, civil engineering, public health, journalism, architecture, product design, chemistry and education.

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  • if we're going to pull this off, we need to train a whole generation (and re-train an earlier generation) of bright green professionals in a host of fields, fields as varied as urban planning, law, civil engineering, public health, journalism, architecture, product design, chemistry and education.
19 Dec 07

Emerging field of neuroecology is showcased in December issue of the Biological Bulletin

  • This just-emerging field bridges the gap between studying the neural basis of behavior (neuroethology) and evaluating the consequences of that behavior at the ecological levels of populations and communities.
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