Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Monday, January 10, 2011

Antonio Damasio: Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

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The study of the evolution of emotions dates back to the 19th century. Charles Darwin famously applied the theory of evolution and natural s...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

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"Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains" is a magazine article technology author Nicholas Carr. The...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

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From Publishers Weekly: Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout wi...

Sherry Turkle: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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In January 2011, Jessica Bennett wrote “The promise of technology is connectedness. But could modern gadgetry be making us lonelier than eve...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

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Johnson--writer, Web guru, and bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You--delivers a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly ...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The 99ers from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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Dan Ariely, behavioral economist at Duke University and author of The Upside of Irrationality, takes a look at the so-called 99ers -- the se...
Monday, December 20, 2010

New Horizons: David Freedman from New Horizons in Education

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Bob Kustra interviews David Freedman about his book, "Wrong" about why experts get it wrong and how to discern when their advice ...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

More Biracial Americans Experiment with Fluid Identity from The Takeaway: Story of the Day by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

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A research paper published by the Social Psychology Quarterly drew some interesting conclusions about the way that members of our increasing...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Oliver Sacks Discusses Vision and 'The Mind's Eye' from NPR Podcast Science Friday

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Normally the eyes and brain work together in a seamless, intricate system. But what happens when the brain can no longer make sense of visua...

Oliver Sacks Discusses Vision and 'The Mind's Eye' from NPR: Science Friday Podcast

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Normally the eyes and brain work together in a seamless, intricate system. But what happens when the brain can no longer make sense of visua...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Gift Books for Christmas‎ from Telegraph.co.uk - Philip Womack - 2 Dec 2010

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... covering everything from inkblot tests, via glow-in-the dark jelly, ... present for any one of them is The Redstone Inkblot Test (Redsto...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

California's Prop 19: The Politics and Practicality of Marijuana Prohibition from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

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In under a week, the nation will vote in gubernatorial, Senate and Congressional elections that seem very likely to shift the national balan...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

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Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans are capable of solving? It can certainly seem like it. The conflict in Afghanistan rages o...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Intelligence Of Crowds In 'The Perfect Swarm' from NPR: Science Friday Podcast

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In his book The Perfect Swarm, Len Fisher talks about swarm intelligence -- where the collective ideas of a group add up to better solutions...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Behind the Piles: A Look At Why People Hoard from NPR: Science Friday Podcast

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The new book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things looks at the nature of hoarders, and the reasons why some people hoard. Co...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

"Lisa Miller on her New Book, 'Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife'" from The Takeaway

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From " The Lovely Bones " to " What Dreams May Come: A Novel ," our popular conception of heaven is becoming increasingl...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Secret History of Dreaming from KQED's Forum by forum@kqed.org (KQED Public Radio)

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Writer Robert Moss considers dreams "secret engines" in the history of everything from literature to quantum physics, and from rel...