February 2012
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Profit vs. Principle: The Neurobiology of... →
“Let your better self rest assured: Dearly held values truly are sacred, and not merely cost-benefit analyses masquerading as nobel intent, concludes a new study on the neurobiology of moral decision-making. Such values are conceived differently, and occur in very different parts of the brain, than utilitarian decisions.”
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Networking As Survival →
“When new forms of communication emerge, don’t just look at how to improve what you’re doing already, but at new ways of doing.”
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Who Are You Online? A 360-Degree View →
“The truth, of course, is that people are their real selves online — but they make wildly divergent choices about which part of that real self they’re going to share and project.”
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New Insight Into Aging Brains →
“Study Links 24% of Intelligence Changes Over a Person’s Life to Genetic Factors”
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The Cetacean Century →
“The early whale scientists, Mr. Burnett finds, had only reluctantly allowed whaling to become their main source of logistical and financial support and had feared the damage to their reputations if they “assisted in the extermination of the whales,” as one nervously put it to his British Museum colleagues in 1913.”
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Remembering a Golden Age of Reading →
“Like Proust, I now believe with pagan zeal in a book’s ability to hoard another’s experience and voice, and its willingness to wait with mythological patience.”
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An Introvert's Guide to Networking →
“Introversion is simply a preference for the inner world of ideas because this is where we get our energy. By understanding and accepting this preference, introverts can optimize time spent with their ideas to refine them and recharge. This allows them to be as powerful and persuasive as possible when networking situations arise.”
NexNote: For peeps like me.
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The 'Be Yourself' Myth →
” In its stead, you have to create a professional persona. That persona is a full-fledged adult who demonstrates a tightly organized research program, a calm confidence in a research contribution to a field or discipline, a clear and specific trajectory of publications, innovative but concise, non-emotional ideas about teaching at all levels of the curriculum, a non-defensive openness...
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How We All Pay For the Huge Tax Privileges Granted... →
“The reason it was the church that commissioned those artworks, and not some other buyer, is because the church had all the money! The great composers, painters and sculptors of the Renaissance worked for whomever could afford to pay them, which is why they often ended up working for the church even when they were notorious freethinkers, as in the case of Giuseppe Verdi. If it...
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“Da Vinci’s Ghost”: Secrets of the world’s most... →
“How Leonardo da Vinci captured the glory of the Renaissance in a single image”
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The neuroscience of happiness →
“New discoveries are shedding light on the activities that make us happy. An expert explains”
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Nature, nurture and liberal values →
“Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses”
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How Mitochondrial Eve connected all humanity and... →
“This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of Mitochondrial Eve, the common ancestor of every human alive today. Here’s everything you need to know about why the mother of humanity is so important.”
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Survival’s Ick Factor →
“Disgust is having its moment in the light as researchers find that it does more than cause that sick feeling in the stomach. It protects human beings from disease and parasites, and affects almost every aspect of human relations, from romance to politics.”
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Why Is San Francisco So Liberal? →
“It all began with a few sailors and a bottle of booze.”
NexNote: I love ‘Frisco.
January 2012
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The Death of Honesty →
” The failure to cultivate virtue in citizens can be a lethal threat to any democracy.”
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Space: The next war zone? - U.S. Military -... →
“By rejecting an international agreement to demilitarize space, the White House doubles down on American imperialism”
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“[Capitalism’s] concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and...”
– Noam Chomsky (1970)
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Prejudice In The Brain: Can You Break Your Biased... →
” One of the biggest problems with prejudice in modern society is that we often perceive people as being threatening even if they pose no real danger. So something that evolved as a protective mechanism in tribal society—when we didn’t often encounter “outsiders”—has become highly maladaptive. And left unchecked, it can fuel discrimination, fear, and...
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Prejudice In The Brain: Can You Break Your Biased... →
” One of the biggest problems with prejudice in modern society is that we often perceive people as being threatening even if they pose no real danger. So something that evolved as a protective mechanism in tribal society—when we didn’t often encounter “outsiders”—has become highly maladaptive. And left unchecked, it can fuel discrimination, fear, and...
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Why Travel Teaches Us To Appreciate Good Food →
“Travel and food go hand in hand. Why do you think there are so many destination specific foods topping the trend lists for 2012? Because food in itself is a form of travel, letting us explore no matter if we’re in the country of the food’s origin or thousands of miles away.”
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How Crowdfunding Saved 722 Square Miles of... →
“In 2007, Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, made an offer to the rest of the world. Underneath his country’s Yasuni National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, lie 846 million barrels of oil valued at $7.2 billion. If the rest of the world could provide Ecuador with half that sum, Correa proposed, the oil would stay in the ground and the rainforest above it would...
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