Friday, May 31, 2019

After brief music training 8-10 year old kids show less hyperactivity and better inhibitory control.

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Fasano et al. show that only three months of orchestral music training improves inhibitory control and reduces hyperactivity in 8-10 year o...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Happily ever after....

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Sure enough, as soon as I do yesterday's post on aging, I run into, and will pass on in this post, a sane article in the Guardian that ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Live younger longer

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New Yorker Magazine writer and polymath Adam Gopnik does an excellent article describing studies on our increased longevity that aim to enh...
Monday, May 27, 2019

With the rise of Trump, the fall of racial prejudice?

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Stanley-Becker points to a fascinating study by Hopkins and Washington . Their abstract: In his campaign and first few years in office, Do...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Blame the liberals for unlivable cities!

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An excellent article by Farhad Manjoo , focusing on San Francisco's affordable housing crisis. Some clips: Just look at San Francisco, ...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Educating liberals about white privilege doesn't make them more empathetic.

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Cooley et al. find that people with socially liberal views on the major political issues are actually less likely to empathize with a poor ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Benefits of a period of exercise persist after 10 years.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to a study by Johnson et al. showing long term effects of an experiment conducted from 1998 to 2003, in which ove...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

A Sunday Afternoon Musicale - Bridges and Mendelssohn

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This post falls in the 'random curious stuff' of the MindBlog title above. I want to share some of my current musical efforts with M...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Are rich people really less generous than poor people?

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Here is a ‘fact’ (that rich people are less generous than poor people) that I had locked into mind that turns out to be wrong. They are not ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Like the emperor’s new clothes, DNA kits are a tailored illusion

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I recommend reading this article by George Estreich . Here are a few clips: Most people remember the emperor: a vain ruler, swindled into ...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Father's physical activity directly enhances offspring's brain physiology and cognition.

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Experiments on mice suggest that human kids of athletic fathers might have more smarts than kids of couch potatoes. From McGreevy et al. : ...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Ready to pounce - Cat smarts get some attention

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I live in a symbiotic relationship with my two Abyssinian cats, and so was gratified, given that canine social cognition is the subject of d...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Want to escape your liberal bubble? Try this.....

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I have a recommendation for MindBlog readers like myself who are concerned about their immersion in the liberal bubble of the New York Times...
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Thursday, May 09, 2019

MindBlog Changes

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I want to explain to readers who check MindBlog daily why the drumbeat of a post each weekday (4,700 posts over the past 13 years) has stopp...
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Monday, May 06, 2019

The Case for Doing Nothing

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An article by Olga Mecking fits so well with my increasing allergic reaction to making myself busy all the time that I have to pass on a fe...
Friday, May 03, 2019

Same-sex marriage legalization reduced implicit and explicit antigay bias

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Interesting work from Ofosu et al. shows how government legislation can inform individuals’ attitudes, even when these attitudes may be dee...
Thursday, May 02, 2019

Why are some people more anxious than others? Brain correlates of trait anxiety.

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Why does trait anxiety (the stable tendency to attend to, experience, and report negative emotions such as fears, worries, and anxiety acros...
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Is Superintelligence Impossible?

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Andy Clarke does an interesting and concise commentary on a discussion between Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers . I pass on the final two...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Digital addiction and the attention economy.

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Jia Tolentino's " What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away " is a broad essay on our digital addictions that focuses on two recent...
Monday, April 29, 2019

A bit of digital detox - rehearsing a Mendelssohn Piano Trio

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I have been fortunate to find in Austin TX two accomplished string players, violinist Andrea Gore and cellist Karen Foster Cason, who join m...