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2024-03-22 07:38:07 Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer | Well actually | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...for-us-impulse-habits-akrasia | ||
In other fields, there’s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. .. | ||
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2024-02-29 04:27:50 How to improve your sense of direction - BBC Future | ||
https://www.bbc.com/...ople-have-a-better-sense-of-direction | ||
Some people can strike off on any journey with no guide except their 'pigeon senses'. How do they do it? And can this ability be learned? | ||
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2024-02-16 08:19:19 ‘By preserving the language, you reinforce communities’: a school saving one of Louisiana’s oldest dialects | Louisiana | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...un-languages-community-impact | ||
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Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe | ||
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2024-02-10 13:31:40 Sketch of The Analytical Engine | ||
the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves. | ||
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2024-02-10 07:41:22 Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public | France | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...ed-to-ban-scrolling-in-public | ||
Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public, | ||
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2023-09-17 13:45:35 ‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making | Language | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...uage-improves-decision-making | ||
Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w... | ||
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2022-10-23 06:52:30 Eucatastrophe: Tolkien's word for the "anti-doomsday" - BBC Future | ||
https://www.bbc.com/...e-tolkiens-word-for-the-anti-doomsday | ||
According to Tolkien, a eucatastrophe in a story often h... darkest moment. When all seems lost – when the enemy s... – a sudden "joyous turn" for the better can emerge. | ||
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2022-10-21 07:02:21 Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research | ||
https://hbr.org/...ctually-workaholics-according-to-research | ||
“in the 1950s, 12% of high-school students perceived t... important person’ – by the 1990s, 80% did.” | ||
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2022-07-04 07:02:29 Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’ | Memory | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...-rise-of-digital-amenesia?... | ||
‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories? | ||
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2022-07-04 07:02:29 Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’ | Memory | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...-rise-of-digital-amenesia?... | ||
‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories? | ||
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2022-06-17 06:34:20 | ||
https://twitter.com/DelightfulApps/st.../1537145851503644675 | ||
An algorithm apparently generates these light patterns. Be better if an artist had? | ||
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2022-06-13 06:38:34 Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient | Google | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine | ||
The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of. | ||
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2022-01-09 13:53:29 What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve? | New Scientist | ||
https://www.newscientist.com/...mals-and-when-did-it-evolve/ | ||
Nieder thinks that consciousness probably emerged separa... occasions, in much the same way that wings appeared sepa... birds and bats. | ||
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2017-07-15 09:27:18 Ravens Are Able To Plan For The Future As Well As Human Children Can | IFLScience | ||
http://www.iflscience.com/...-for-the-future-just-like-apes/ | ||
In a new set of experiments published in Science, howeve... found that the raven’s ability to plan ahead goes much... simply catching food. | ||
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2017-03-13 18:47:54 Brain has more than 100 times higher computational capacity than previously thought, say UCLA scientists | KurzweilAI | ||
http://www.kurzweilai.net/...thought-say-ucla-scientists?... | ||
Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi... | ||
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2017-01-19 20:05:39 Humans aren’t the only great apes that can ‘read minds’ | Science | AAAS | ||
http://www.sciencemag.org/...-only-great-apes-can-read-minds | ||
For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel | ||
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2017-01-15 10:10:30 Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman | Technology | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...nagement-is-ruining-our-lives | ||
The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up | ||
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2016-12-09 18:00:51 The Challenge of Consciousness | by Riccardo Manzotti | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books | ||
http://www.nybooks.com/...allenge-of-defining-consciousness/ | ||
Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being | ||
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2016-12-09 17:34:47 The #Election2016 Micro-Propaganda Machine – Medium | ||
https://medium.com/...ro-propaganda-machine-383449cc1fba#... | ||
After finding evidence that much of the “fake” and h... traffic during 🇺🇸#Election2016 was arriving throug... hyperlinks, search engines, and “old school” sharing... email newsletters, RSS, and instant messaging, I thought... “big data | ||
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2016-12-04 12:42:50 Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us | Books | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...oer-technology-diminishing-us | ||
Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or ski... screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to ou... more we stand to lose | ||
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2016-12-04 12:39:44 Google's DeepMind AI gives robots the ability to dream - ExtremeTech | ||
https://www.extremetech.com/...ai-gives-robots-ability-dream | ||
Rather than pointlessly rehearsing entire sections of th... little bearing on the player’s overall score, “dream... to highlight certain sections of the game that are espec... and repeat them ad nauseam until expertise is achieved. ... technique, | ||
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2016-12-03 12:13:33 Incredible discovery of 40,000-year-old tools for art and engineering | Ars Technica UK | ||
http://arstechnica.co.uk/...d-tools-for-art-and-engineering/ | ||
The question that has long raged among archaeologists is... first began using ochre as a tool for engineering or as ... making art. In other words, does symbolism start with sc... aesthetics? By examining 23 ochre-processing tools from ... researchers | ||
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2016-11-03 12:10:23 A #NoDAPL Map – Northlandia | ||
There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful... | ||
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2016-11-02 10:32:25 Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests | Science | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...tereotypes-new-study-suggests | ||
rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows | ||
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2016-11-02 10:32:25 Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests | Science | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...tereotypes-new-study-suggests | ||
rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows | ||
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2016-10-19 14:39:55 Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) | ||
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/race-to.../7946006?... | ||
One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050 | ||
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2016-10-19 14:39:55 Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) | ||
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/race-to.../7946006?... | ||
One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050 | ||
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2016-10-18 17:16:44 Transparency-controlled physical interfaces | Computer Graphics | ||
https://www.cg.tu-berlin.de/...ntrolled-physical-interfaces/ | ||
Changing the Appearance of Physical Interfaces Through C... | ||
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2016-09-27 20:39:40 Is This The Most Scary Vacation Home In Australia | ||
You would need a strong head for heights and nerves of s... live in this vacation home built on the side of a cliff ... | ||
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2016-09-27 10:23:19 The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s | Atlas Obscura | ||
http://www.atlasobscura.com/...s-only-dates-to-the-1920s?... | ||
Despite their prevalence, building standards really only... the last century. A major turning point in their wild pr... in the 1920s, when the German government made the then-r... standardize the size of office paper. | ||
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