Trendwatching.com: Consumer trends and insights from around the world. Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review. Donald Barthelme would’ve been, and should be, eighty-three today.
It would be an exaggeration to say that I feel the absence of someone whom I never met—someone who died when I was three—but I do wonder, with something more than mere curiosity, what Barthelme would have made of the past twenty-odd years. These are decades I feel we’ve processed less acutely because he wasn’t there to fictionalize them: their surreal political flareups, their new technologies, their various zeitgeists and intellectual fads and dumb advertisements. Art, design and visual ingenuity. The psychology of energy savings: A Q&A with Alex Laskey and Sendhil Mullainathan. Alex Laskey of Opower shows the amount of coal that should be able to power a lightbulb for a year.
But because of massive energy waste, ten timess as much coal is needed. Photo: James Duncan Davidson “For the past five years we’ve been running the largest behavioral science experiment in the world,” says Alex Laskey in today’s TED Talk, given at this year’s 2013 conference in Long Beach. “And, it’s working.” Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill Laskey’s company Opower partners with utility companies to deliver personalized home energy reports, all based off the insight that people are more inclined to take action on an issue when they think other people are doing better than they are. This idea was sparked by a study run a decade ago by Arizona State University psychology professor, Robert Cialdini, who conducted an experiment to see what might make people turn off their air conditioner, and turn on their fan. Alex Laskey: I came across it accidentally. Vandana Shiva speaks about the lunacy of economic growth.
The Age of Stupid. Livestream from the 30c3 in Hamburg - Tag 1 [30c3][live] Chaos Communication Congress: Sind Journalisten immer auch Aktivisten? Steht Glenn Greenwald für einen neuen Journalismus oder hat er eine Grenze überschritten, fragte ZEIT ONLINE.
Nun hat er sich selbst in die Debatte eingemischt. Speichern Drucken Twitter Facebook. Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? Super Heroine: An Interview With Lorde. Although she had no music out at this time last year, by now Lorde requires no introduction.
Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died. Powered by Translate From neuroscience to Nietzsche.
A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism. This article was first published in "Forbes ASAP" in 1996. Being a bit behind the curve, I had only just heard of the digital revolution last February when Louis Rossetto, cofounder of Wired magazine, wearing a shirt with no collar and his hair as long as Felix Mendelssohn's, looking every inch the young California visionary, gave a speech before the Cato Institute announcing the dawn of the twenty–first century's digital civilization. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy - The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. The three pounds of jelly-like material found within our skulls is the most complex machine on Earth and perhaps the universe.
Its phenomenal features would not be possible without the hundreds of billions of neurons that make it up, and, importantly, the connections between those neurons. Fortunately, much is known about the properties of individual neurons and simple neuronal networks, and aspects of complex neuronal networks are beginning to be unraveled.
This chapter will begin with a discussion of the neuron, the elementary node or element of the brain, and then move to a discussion of the ways in which individual neurons communicate with each other. What makes the nervous system such a fantastic device and distinguishes the brain from other organs of the body is not that it has 100 billion neurons, but that nerve cells are capable of communicating with each other in such a highly structured manner as to form neuronal networks. The Neuron. Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. Introduction to Neuroscience. John Lennox vs Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion Debate (Full)
What Money Can't Buy - Public debate with Michael Sandel at St Paul's Cathedral. The Story of Stuff - Doku - Deutsch.
Economics. Mathematics. Speed of Information Processing in a Calculating Prodigy, Arthur R. Jensen. Speed of Information Processing in a Calculating Prodigy Arthur R.
JensenUniversity of California, Berkeley. Shakuntala Devi, one of the world's most prodigious mental calculators on record, past or present, is especially remarkable for the incredible speed with which she performs mental calculations on very large numbers. This rare phenomenon prompted the question of whether such exceptional performance depends on the speed of elementary information processes. Devi's rather unexceptional reaction times on a battery of elementary cognitive tasks, which were compared with the mean RTs of college students and older adults on the same tasks, contrasts so markedly with her amazing speed of performing huge arithmetic calculations as to indicate that her skill with numbers must depend largely on the automatic encoding and retrieval of a wealth of declarative and procedural information in long-term memory rather than on any unusual basic capacities.
Personal Characteristics. 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology.