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Writing in the Age of Distraction
Regular work schedule, rough edges, resist research, forget muse, kill your wp, no real time distractors. Easy peasy, no?
Crystal Ball Gazing at the Coming Year in Tech Law
What's in store for Canada in the area of technology law and policy?Modest progress interrupted by another election in the Fall.
Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard
Even though we yearn for what is new, most of us are unable or willing to make fundamental changes in our lives. Change is rarely as easy as we think it will be.
EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids
"Kids from lower socioeconomic levels show brain physiology patterns similar to someone who actually had damage in the frontal lobe as an adult," said Robert Knight, director of the institute and a UC Berkeley professor of psychology. "This is a wake-up c
Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit: Scientific American
It seems everyone occassionally procrastinates, 15 to 20 percent of adult routinely put off activities that would be better accomplished right away, and a whopping 80 to 95 percent of college students have a penchant for postponement.
How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called "elevation."
Elevation = the emotions of uplift. '[Thomas] Jefferson wrote of the physical sensation that comes from witnessing goodness in others: It is to "dilate [the] breast and elevate [the] sentiments … and privately covenant to copy the fair example."
How to Run a Con
The key to a con is not that you trust the conman, but that he shows he trusts you. Conmen ply their trade by appearing fragile or needing help, by seeming vulnerable. Because of THOMAS, the human brain makes us feel good when we help others--this is the
The Next Rennaissance: A Talk By Douglas Rushkoff
Rushkoff on participatory democracy: Computers and networks offer us the ability to write (citizen bloggers). But the capacity they offer us is to program, and the opportunity to rewite the very rules by which democracy is implemented. Annotated link htt
Why Judy can't add: gender inequality and the math gap
The math gender gap thus joins a long list of differences in test scores that were once ascribed to biology, but now appear to be caused by social influences.
Frankenstein in the University
Can we shape technology as much as it shapes us? Or do we need to resign ourselves to the spector of technology out of control? If we do argues Luke Fernandez, we truly do become its victims.
How to Unleash Your Creativity
Three experts on creativity, each with different backgrounds and perspectives offer practical tactics to unleash your creative self.
Put a Little Science in Your Life
The reason science really matters runs deeper still. Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable — a transformation....
The Cognitive Age
David Brooks explains the new cognitive age: " We're moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information."
Blogging--It's Good for You
The neurological underpinnings of the therapeutic benefits of expressive writing are not clear. What is clear is that people coping with cancer diagnoses and other serious conditions are increasingly seeking--and finding--solace in the blogosphere.
Does your brain have a mind of its own?
Why can't we stick to our goals like "I will lose wieth" or "I plan to finish this article before the deadline. "Nice thoughts, but not forumulated in terms that your ancestral, reflecxive brain might understand," says psychologist Gary Marcus. The work a
The CTO Challenge: Building Your Personal Learning Network
...as we externalize our thinking, it becomes less of "I am an expert expounding on what I know" and more of "I am a learner, just like you, sharing what I'm learning so that we can learn together through our common errors and maximize our breakthroughs."
Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind
The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. The good news, however, is that practice increases willpower capacity.
The transformation of culture
Ron sees Anthony as "...a harbinger of the future. He will not take traditional composition classes to learn how to write. Instead, he will communicate with the tools that he finds comfortable to use and will persist in making heimself heard or read...."
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