Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Feeling bad is not bad.

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MindBlog is passing on the link to each of Arthur Brooks' biweekly articles in his series "How to Build a Life". This latest...

MindBlog's half-sour pickle recipe

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This posting falls under the "random curious stuff" category mentioned in the title box of this blog. At the social/musical at my...
Monday, June 29, 2020

The pandemic has put history on fast-forward.

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Edited clips from Ross Douthat's NYTimes Op-Ed piece , suggesting that: ...when the coronavirus era finally ends, there will be a Rip...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Vote-by-mail has no impact on partisan turnout or vote share

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Some factual data from Thompson et al. which we can be sure will be ignored by those trying to suppress voting by opposing mail in ballots:...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age

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Having lectured in university classrooms for about 40 years, but not since 2005, I am blown away by changes in the academy that technology h...

MindBlog statistics.

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I'm a complete dunce at paying attention to or understanding the number of people who make use of Deric's Mindblog, which started in...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down

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I not sure I really grok this, but if you want big thinking, here you go...... This edge.org link takes you to Wolfram's whole essa...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

10 reasons why a 'Greater Depression' for the 2020s is inevitable.

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Try to hang on to any threads of optimism you might still have as I summarize,from an article in The Guardian by Nouriel Roubini , 10 omino...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Why have stocks been rising.?

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I pass on clips that cook down the main points from Derek Thompson's recent article that makes several clarifying points: The COVID-1...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

The molecular choreography of acute exercise

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Reynolds points to work of Contrepois et al , who had 36 volunteers, age range 40-75, complete a standard treadmill endurance test, running...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Nostalgia... Remember Disco??

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On my current tour through old MindBlog posts I came across this one from Jan 24, 2018, done during my early snowbird years in Fort Lauderda...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Jon Stewart weighs back in.....

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I was struck by bits of clarity in David Marchese's interview of Jon Stewart. The interview was occasioned by the upcoming release of S...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Rich and Poor

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San Paulo, Brazil.

Motion aftereffect demonstration

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I'm passing this on, a rather powerful (practically hallucinatory) demonstration . Look at the center of the moving lines for 20 second...
Monday, June 15, 2020

As diversity increases, people paradoxically perceive social groups as more similar

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From Bai et al .: Significance Globalization and immigration expose people to increased diversity, challenging them to think in new ways abo...
Friday, June 12, 2020

The psyche is not inside us but between us.

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I want to pass on a few clips from an article by psychotherapist James Barnes on the work and ideas of Donald Winnicott (1896-1971), a cent...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Making Us/Them Dichotomies More Benign.

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I'm reposting this item from 2016 as particularly relevant to the present.... Interesting thoughts from Robert Sapolsky: A truly disc...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

A perky bit of piano - Haydn Fantasia in C major, glitches included

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I've generated almost 5,000 posts since this blog started in 2016 (before the first iPhone was released in 2017!, seems an aeon ago.) A...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

People aged 95 and older show stronger brain connectivity

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Jiyang et al. have used resting-state functional MRI to compare 57 individuals aged 95-103 years old with 66 cognitively unimpaired younger...
Monday, June 08, 2020

How Covid-19 stress scrambles our brains

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The pandemic is providing an opportunity for a massive, real-time experiment on stress.  Even mild stress can impair the activities of the p...