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PLoS Biology - Timing the Brain: Mental Chronometry as a Tool in Neuroscience
How do we relate human thought processes to measurable events in the brain? Mental chronometry, which has origins that date back more than a century, seeks to measure the time course of mental operations in the human nervous system [1]. From the late 1800s until 1950, the field was built almost entirely around a single method: measuring and comparing people's reaction times during simple cognitive tasks.
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Naomi Klein: Free market ideology is far from finished | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
This spectacle necessarily raises the question: if the state can intervene to save corporations that took reckless risks in the housing markets, why can't it intervene to prevent millions of Americans from imminent foreclosure?
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Do Our Political Beliefs Have a Biological Basis? | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com
A small but intriguing study finds that liberals and conservatives react differently when shown threatening images.
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Changing minds and persuasion -- How we change what others think, believe, feel and do
Welcome to ChangingMinds.org, the largest site in the world on all aspects of how we change what others think, believe, feel and do.
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6 Brainwashing Techniques They're Using On You Right Now - Page 2 | Cracked.com
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Pope condemns love of money, power - CNN.com
PARIS, France (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI condemned unbridled "pagan" passion for power, possessions and money as a modern-day plague Saturday as he led more than a quarter of a million Catholics in an outdoor Mass in Paris.
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slacktivist: Weltanschauung
Other Christians may use the word too, occasionally, rarely, in a way that conforms more closely to its usual dictionary definition or to the way the German sociologists used it when they coined the term weltanschauung. But when you hear it used frequently, the way it's employed by the BJU Press and the Worldview Weekend folks above, it is a signpost term. It helps to show where the user falls on the spectrum between typical Christianity Today/Wheaton College/Ned Flanders mainstream evangelicalism and the scary lunatic fringe of radical separatists, dominionists and third-generation homeschoolers. The more you hear someone talk about "Christian worldviews" or "biblical worldviews" the further to the extreme right of that spectrum you can expect them to be.
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Thoughts for an eleventh September: Alvin Toffler, Hirohito, Sarah Palin « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
The gloss of down-home authenticity - the mooseburgers, “snow machines,” and other rustic tat that figure so centrally in her instant legend. The young-Earther retreat from science and all its methods. The palpable resentment of coastal elites (even as this time around it doesn’t seem that term is shorthand, as it so often is, for “Jews”). The instinctual, immediate recourse, upon achieving even the most local and limited sort of power, to the heavy-handed suppression of free inquiry. The things that endear this onetime nowhere-burg mayor to Americans are, as clearly as can possibly be, indicators that a whole lot of people think tomorrow came too soon.
What you get when you swallow too much change too quickly isn’t a mass outbreak of twitching, hebephrenic breakdown, nor some neo-Amish wave of technological renunciation. You wanna know what it looks like? A hockey mom and former beauty queen with an upswept ‘do and a pregnant daughter in high school. Sarah Palin is future shock personified.
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TravelinEdMan: The Price of an 8 Pack of Learning Theory Lectures? Nothing! Just a Lot of Bonk!
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The Real Reasons For The Modern Productivity Movement | Matthew Cornell - Personal Productivity Specialist
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The world needs more foxes and fewer hedgehogs
Leaders need many hedgehog qualities – the cry that the probability of victory is 0.6 is not inspiring. But the analytic skills needed for good judgments are those of foxes. Effective management teams include both hedgehogs and foxes, which is why the modern tendency to appoint hedgehogs and allow them to surround themselves by like-minded hedgehogs is so dangerous.
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Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » The Why of Culture War
So much as I share Rotwang and Ngo’s frustrations that the “fake elite” is so persistently targeted, that education is seen as a liability, that experts and intellectuals have become the dog that you kick and abuse while still relying upon him to guard your house, it is not as if culture war in this sense comes from nowhere, or has no underlying sense to it. Much of it is an entirely understandable and justified response to history as Americans (and indeed the world) have lived it since 1945.
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The M.A.P. Maker [Meaning, Abundance & Passion]: 9 ways to help people help you
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How to Memorize Verbatim Text : Productivity501
In this post we are going to look at how the brain remembers and then show how to use that knowledge to come up with a method for memorizing verbatim text.
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Once Upon a Time...: Death Match (III): Follow the Money -- and Follow the Military Bases
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I Need My Sleep! « Neurotic Physiology
But apparently there is somewhat of a controversy in science as to whether or not sleep is essential. Or rather, not whether sleep is essential, but whether it evolved because it serves a function in itself. There are two sides to the debate. One side say
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Does your dog feel your pain? | The Greater Good Blog
Other animals capable of such “facial mimicry” — imitating facial expressions — include orangutans and chimps. Researchers believe that facial mimicry is a rudimentary form of empathy. Studies have found that humans who are more susceptible to contagious
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