psychology
I am going to try this.
1 FaverShareViewed: 9 TimesQuoted: Piotr Wozniak has a technique to turn people into geniuses, and a portion of the technique is in a software program called SuperMemo. Users around the world apply it to learning languages and gaining language fluency. SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned.
a bit more detailed than the last fave but slightly less interesting.
1 FaverShareViewed: 4 TimesQuoted: Does your menu attract or repel diners? Experts offer suggestions for effective design to help unlock your menu's selling potential.
Fun reading from The Boston Globe website.
1 FaverShareViewed: 9 TimesQuoted: (...) The first thing to know is that the mind isn't a mirror, or even a passive observer of reality. Much of what we think of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like hallucinations.
If I make it all the way through a book by Jung, this might be it. This article is informative (and looonng), but it plays the hype card a lot. Still, if you have a smidgen of an interest in Jung, read on....
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: What the unearthing of Carl Jung’s Red book is doing to the Jungs and the Jungians (and maybe your dreams).
1 FaverShareViewed: 12 TimesQuoted: This article describes and explains the theoretical background of cognitive behavioural therapy. The evidence base for the cognitive behavioural treatment of a number of mental ...
Great article on how to be an underdog
2 FaversShareViewed: 20 TimesQuoted: David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time.
Definitely looking forward to checking out the latest Malcolm Gladwell book...
1 FaverShareViewed: 10 TimesQuoted: Outliers is a more sober look at success for a post-boom audience. But it rejects the Poor Richard self-help tradition. Gladwell is skeptical about innate genius and lonely struggle. He shows that we are the products of our social origins, the centuries-old values of our geographic roots, and even of the exact year and even month of our birth.
well written, fascinating article. conclusion: democrats should change their rhetoric to appeal to different moral areas to gain traction in currently republican voters.
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Here's the definitive list. GR isn't in the top ten; it's 30th. Obviously, faulty data. At least we have this going for us: "unusually high voter-participation." Minneapolis is 4th, Eunice. But there is Brett Favre...
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