August 2010
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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime... →
psychotherapy:
The technology makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive. But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas…
“Almost certainly, downtime lets the brain go over experiences...
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Selling Skinny for the Military
I’ve got on my marketing lenses. I (and anyone else who knows his secret message drop point) got an invitation to sit in on Artie Isaac’s lecture last night at CCAD on marketing/consumer behavior/why people do. This was really just the introduction to a class, but he made it sticky enough that I’ve got my eye out for it now.
He has a basic tool to use to understand a...
Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult... →
By jove (or Sri John-Roger for those in the know), I think this is what journalism looks like.
Take a wildly popular lifestyle improvement method - according to Merlin Mann “It probably takes a backseat only to the Atkins Diet in terms of the number of enthusiastic evangelists: sorry about that” - and dig around until you find something that might challenge the culturally short...
George Washington on the danger of political...
From Celcius 1414
Today is the 217th anniversary of George Washington taking office as the first President. Two terms later, President Washington issued a farewell address. The following is from that address:
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more...
Maps: How Mankind Remade Nature →
Wired Magazine’s teaser of an article about the shape of humanity on the landscape. Touches on some very controversial concepts of nature
“You now have a biosphere that’s completely transformed by people. Biology goes on in the human context, not the natural,” he said. “And given the idea that most of ecosystem form and process is created by and ruled by human activity, how did it get...
“If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.
...”
– Water by Philip Larkin
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Crafting Your Craft
Finding meaningful work is the hardest job I’ve ever had. The hours are long, the (short term) compensation is terrible, the markers for progress are few and far between, and there are no one else’s coat tails to ride on. For those of us with big hopes and little direction - and we are legion - it can become overwhelming.
Like Pablo Picasso said: “Good artists borrow, great...
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via extemporaneously, staarlife, heartmindspirit) (via metaconscious)
I don’t know why we have to choose, but I often have the same struggle
Psychadelic Medicine →
It’s kind of cute how slow institutional science can be. Why the aversion to hallucination? Everything I’ve heard from people who have studied it before put the hallucination as part of the medicine. I guess if they didn’t have to change it, they couldn’t patent it and charge you out the ass for shit that has been growing on shit since we flung our poo at each other and...
“It’s as if a nuclear apocalypse has gone off in the Gulf,” he said. “The media...”
– It’s as if a nuclear apocalypse has gone off in the Gulf (via kateoplis)
If Fox isn’t covering it, it’s not important. Just keep smiling.
WatchCase in point for my last post…
Hamsters, Closure, Snowflakes
The tiny hamsters than pedal-power my brain seem to take the same steps over and over again like children jumping over the same cracks on their way to school every day. The cracks are little irritations that my mind won’t release, but instead are jumped over again and again, replayed like a broken record until I can hear them clearly.
Some of these more recent cracks have been from Merlin...
When there is nothing to do: Mammoth interviews... →
This was a though provoking read for me. As usual, I’ll steal clips and add comments. Enjoy:
Sheppard: … I think also that we have always been interested in rethinking the overlooked parts of our built environment — and much of what organizes these environments seems to fall under the category of logistics and infrastructure.
Mammoth: … But, first: what is ‘an extrinsic...
Fake Science: Types of Plugs →
When you follow Fake Science on Twitter, you get more scientific knowledge in your life. When you follow it on Facebook, you get to see the thoughts of other wise Scientists. Is that not reason enough to do it and encourage your friends to do the same?
Note: If you are waiting on…
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. There. Right. There.
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HOLY SCIENCE BATMAN!!!
Radiolab rocks it again
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A Pattern Language of Sustainability →
I have no idea if this is any good - I barely looked at it. But as part of Ubiquitous Capture I think it is worth noting. Take a look if you’re interested, but this is just a bookmark for me.
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Making Policy Public →
Not knowing the law is not supposed to be an excuse for breaking it, but it doesn’t make it any easier to follow. How can policy make an impact if it is too boring and hard to understand for anyone to follow it? Enter graphic design.
Produced in collaboration with the Center for Urban Pedagog, this project is called Making Policy Public. In their own words:
CUP’s series of...
Constant Spiritual Flux: Regarding what God hates.... →
(piscesinpurple)
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Dear Dr. Laura,
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some...
Super-Levee Urban Farm →
levee-wetland-garden-park-remediation-evacuation-system. The start of the new “urban pwn” movement.
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