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13 Aug 09

The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine

  • That study has implications for drug addiction and other compulsive behaviors. Berridge has proposed that in some addictions the brain becomes sensitized to the wanting cycle of a particular reward. So addicts become obsessively driven to seek the reward, even as the reward itself becomes progressively less rewarding once obtained. "The dopamine system does not have satiety built into it," Berridge explains. "And under certain conditions it can lead us to irrational wants, excessive wants we'd be better off without." So we find ourselves letting one Google search lead to another, while often feeling the information is not vital and knowing we should stop. "As long as you sit there, the consumption renews the appetite," he explains.
17 Jul 09

Democrats Cut Labor Provision Unions Sought - NYTimes.com

  • “Binding arbitration is an absolute nonstarter for us,” said Mark McKinnon, a spokesman for the Workforce Fairness Institute, a business group opposing the bill. “We see it as a hostile act to have arbitrators telling businesses what they have to do.”
    • Oh, but it's perfectly okay for these companies to force employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. - on 2009-07-17
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13 Jul 09

El Nino weather system to return - Telegraph

  • In an El Nino year there tend to be more Eastern Pacific hurricanes and fewer Atlantic hurricanes.
08 Jul 09

Why Music Moves Us: Scientific American

  • But as a result of that serendipity, music seems to offer a novel system of communication rooted in emotions rather than in meaning. Recent data show, for example, that music reliably conveys certain sentiments: what we feel when we hear a piece of music is remarkably similar to what everybody else in the room is experiencing.

New Border Fear - Militia Violence - NYTimes.com

  • “I had to take an oath, and part of the oath was that I couldn’t eat Mexican food,” he said. “That’s when red flags went up all over for me. That seemed like prejudice.”
    • That was her first clue? Really? - on 2009-06-27
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Shift Possible on Terror Suspects’ Detention - NYTimes.com

  • issuing an executive order that would authorize the president to incarcerate some terrorism suspects indefinitely,
25 Jun 09

Arts, Briefly - Wired Editor Apologizes for Copied Passages - NYTimes.com

  • What a dumbass. How hard is it to retain citations from manuscript to finished book? - mfox04 on 2009-06-25
  • He said that he originally had put the Wikipedia material in quotations, but that he and his publisher had not been able to agree on a format for citations.
    • What a dumbass. How hard is it to retain citations from manuscript to finished copy? - on 2009-06-25
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23 Jun 09

Apple’s Management Obsessed With Secrecy - NYTimes.com

  • Work spaces are typically monitored by security cameras, this employee said. Some Apple workers in the most critical product-testing rooms must cover up devices with black cloaks when they are working on them, and turn on a red warning light when devices are unmasked so that everyone knows to be extra-careful, he said.
    • I'm a big fan of Apple products, but this is insane. - on 2009-06-23
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19 Jun 09

U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From Korea - WSJ.com

  • Each time, North Korea eventually backed out of the deals.
    • Actually, the Unites States failed to deliver on what it had agreed to with North Korea. Blame goes to both sides, not just the North Koreans. - on 2009-06-19
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