Friday, January 29, 2016

Fourth Industrial Revolution?? Maybe not.....

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Just after starting my second slog through Schwab's 'the fourth industrial revolution' noted in yesterday's post, I see Paul...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Predicting the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Klaus Schwab, the guy who runs the annual Davos Switzerland World Economic Forum of “very important people” in the world, has generated a bo...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The ascendant candidacy of Donald J. Trump

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You should check Steven Rattner's interesting commentary asking what we owe to those on the losing end of globalization: Percent chan...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Social relationships and biomarkers of longevity across our life span.

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Yang et al. aggregate a massive amount of data from four large longitudinal surveys to show associations between social relationships physi...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

The evolution of dance

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From Laland et al. : Evidence from multiple sources reveals a surprising link between imitation and dance. As in the classical correspon...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

On teaching old dogs new tricks.

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Metcalfe et al. find that older healthy adults not only are better than young adults at answering general-information questions in the firs...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Several perspectives on the valuation of outgroups.

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A recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has two relevant articles: Keelah et al. show that Americans’ stereo...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Paying attention to your body can increase resilience to stress

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Resilience is the ability to rapidly return to normal, both physically and emotionally, after a stressful event. Reynolds points to work by...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Biochemical individuality obsoletes many dietary recommendations and the glycemic index.

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An  important paper by a Weizmann Institute group has been languishing in my list of potential posts, and Murphy's summary of their wo...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Posthumanism - the quantification craze and the death of beauty

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An eloquent recent essay, “ Among the Disrupted ” by Leon Wieseltier (pointed to by a Brooks Op-Ed piece ), is worth your attention. It op...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Homosexuality as a discrete class.

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Norris et al. contribute to previous work engaging the question of whether homosexuality has a taxonic structure of categories of individua...

Another installment on anti-aging chemistry - pterostilbene

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I thought I would report on my recent meandering into recent work on the putative anti-aging compounds Resveratrol and Pterostilbene, which ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

How to be bad together - Punishing pro-social behavior.

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I pass on part of a brief essay by Gloria Origgi noting the work of Gächter and Herrmann , who examined positive and negative reciprocity i...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Purity, Disgust and Donald Trump

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Following the thread of the past few posts (on the partisan divide and empathy), I want to pass on this must-read article by Thomas Edsall,...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Our strongest prejudice - partisan hostility

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Jonathan Haidt points to the fascinating work by political scientists Shanto Iyengar and Sean Westwood, titled “ Fear and Loathing Across P...
Monday, January 11, 2016

How learning shapes the empathic brain.

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From Hein et al. : Abstract Deficits in empathy enhance conflicts and human suffering. Thus, it is crucial to understand how empathy ca...
Friday, January 08, 2016

Virtual reality going mainstream will enhance our understanding of consciousness.

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These clips from Thomas Metzinger are fascinating: 2016 will be the year in which VR finally breaks through at the mass consumer level....
Thursday, January 07, 2016

How our brains change during the day.

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I am reminded what a rigid daily schedule my body keeps and expects every time I vary my routine slightly (changing a meal time, exercise, h...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Nature's warning system.

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A colleague in my Chaos and Complexity discussion group at the Univ. of Wisconsin passed on this Atlantic article in which my Zoology colle...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Higher inequality correlates with less generous rich people.

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From Côté et. al. : Research on social class and generosity suggests that higher-income individuals are less generous than poorer individua...