You won't find consciousness in the brain - opinion - 07 January. Do Your Kids Accuse You Of Ruining Their Social Lives? Sexual Politics of Dancing: The Secrets of Looking Good on the D. The people next to the bar are clutching their drinks tightly. A little closer to the dance floor, people are swaying to the beat and nodding their heads, while under the disco ball others are letting loose, showing creativity and coordination -- or at least trying to. It's a familiar scene in every disco. But what exactly happens to us when the beat kicks in? Why are some folks bursting with confidence on the dance floor, when others appear to be stuck to their barstools? And perhaps most importantly: What dance styles are most likely to find you a potential mate? If one is to believe psychologist Peter Lovatt, three factors influence how confidently an individual moves on the dance floor -- and how attractive the other gender finds the performance.
Lovatt, a psychology professor at the University of Hertfordshire near London who is widely known as "Dr. Strutting Their Stuff First of all, his students measured clubbers' ring and index fingers. Subtle Is Better From Theory to Practice. The Beauty and Bane of the Serial Entrepreneur. The other day it occurred to me that the #1 thing my successful students have in common is: They’re serial entrepreneurs. At a Roundtable meeting, 3 out of 4 people in the room has started and built multiple successful businesses. They have a hunger for adventure and can NEVER sit still for very long. They’re also resilient and agile and nothing can keep them down. When confronted by a mountain or a vast brick wall, they’ll find a way over, they’ll find a way under, they’ll blast their way through, they’ll bribe the sherpa to take them around the back way, they’ll hire munchkins from the opposite side of the continent to infiltrate the enemy camp… but somehow or another, they’re going to get it done.
Tom Hoobyar once said, “Entrepreneurs are feral men.” From Wikipedia: “A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to a wild state. You wonder why you could never sit still in school. Now you know. ADHD isn’t caused by lack of focus. Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a M. For every 300 Muscovites, there's a stray dog wandering the streets of Russia's capital. And according to Andrei Poyarkov, a researcher at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the fierce pressure of urban living has driven the dogs to evolve wolf-like traits, increased intelligence, and even the ability to navigate the subway. Poyarkov has studied the dogs, which number about 35,000, for the last 30 years. Over that time, he observed the stray dog population lose the spotted coats, wagging tails, and friendliness that separate dogs from wolves, while at the same time evolving social structures and behaviors optimized to four ecological niches occupied by what Poyarkov calls guard dogs, scavengers, wild dogs, and beggars.
The guard dogs follow around, and receive food from, the security personnel at Moscow's many fenced in sites. They think the guards are their masters, and serve as semi-feral assistants. The scavengers roam the city eating garbage. Your Brain Can't Handle Your Facebook Friends. Ever heard of Dunbar's Number? According to British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, it's the cognitive limit to the number of people you can be friends with. The number is 150, meaning your brain can only handle that many friends, and — shockingly enough — it also applies to Facebook. Even if you have thousands of friends, that number is really meaningless as far as true friendships go, Dunbar told Times Online. He supports this with traffic data. This is a well-known concept. The number is a bit different for boys and girls, Dunbar claims, without going into specifics. Personally, I keep the number of my Facebook friends very small, around 100 — I friend only the people I know IRL — but I don't feel that having several hundred friends would be meaningless.
Dear married men: Keep your distance. Even if they wear wedding rings, married men shouldn't hang out too often with single women, Audrey Irvine says. Audrey Irvine reports Facebook storm over too-friendly married menShe says when they phone up or hang out with single women, it looks suspiciousWearing a wedding ring doesn't make it OK to party with other womenCritic: If I'm not friends with his wife, too much of his attention is disrespectful Editor's note: Audrey Irvine is a senior assignment manager for CNN. Her experiences in the dating world inspire her "Relationship Rant" column. Check back every week for her take on dating and relationships. Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- My friend posted this message as her Facebook status update: Maybe it's just me, but I am extremely uncomfortable with any married man calling me "just to say hi.
" Not good! My initial response was this has to be a joke ... right? The biggest complaint from most women was that lately some married men have been living double lives. The secret lives of married men - Times Online. Teens Susceptible to Reproductive Coercion - Newsweek.com. Dr. Feynman’s 6 Principles of Trendspotting. Is it possible to predict the future? Apparently, Richard Feynman could. He dreamed up some of the today’s most exciting technologies, like nanotech and quantum computing, decades ago. Moreover, these weren’t mere daydreams or flashes of inspiration; he foresaw how they would actually work, what problems would have to be overcome, etc. Although regarded by many adoring scientists as a ‘magician,” Feynman wasn’t clairvoyant and there was no mystery surrounding his work.
Curiosity About Everyday Things Feynman never set out to predict the future. For instance, one day he was in the university cafeteria at Cornell and noticed a dish spinning in the air. So while his colleagues were thinking about the new science of quantum mechanics, he was thinking about dishes spinning and wobbling (much to the amusement of those around him). Intense curiosity about everyday things seems to be a common attribute of great thinkers. G. Amalgamation of Facts into Principles That’s how Feynman worked. Rigor. Multitasking? Think Again. « The PSSI Blog. February 25, 2010 by pssiusa As a recent episode of PBS Frontline (the best show on TV, IMHO) entitled Digital Nation points out – once again – the myth of multitasking is trumped by the reality. I can do no better than to quote from the show (and website) the words of clinical psychologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who has studied the phenomenon of doing more than one (or two or three or four) things at once, as is seen so often among today’s students and younger workforce: “I teach the most brilliant students in the world,” says Turkle, “but they have done themselves a disservice by drinking the Kool-Aid and believing that a multitasking learning environment will serve their best purposes.
There are just some things that are not amenable to being thought about in conjunction with 15 other things.” Award-winning Frontline producer Rachel Dretzin learned this firsthand by taking a few tests of her own given by Stanford professor Clifford Nass. If you can. Like this: Like Loading...