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The Joy of Hating Duke and Christian Laettner
Nature seems (the more we look into it) made up of antipathies,” William Hazlitt, the British critic, wrote in his 1826 essay, “On the Pleasure of Hating.” “Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.” Hazlitt was in his forties when he wrote the essay and had suddenly realized that he hated a lot of things—more, it seemed, than he loved—and for reasons that didn’t seem very good. He hated people for how they dressed; he hated books...
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The price of shame
"Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop," says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become constant -- and can turn deadly. In a brave talk, she takes a hard look at our online culture of humiliation, and asks for a different way.
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In 2115, when our descendants look back at our society, what will they condemn as our greatest moral failing?
In 100 years it will not be acceptable to use genderised words such as ‘he’ or ‘she’, which are loaded with centuries of prejudice and reduce a spectrum of greys to black and white. We will use the pronoun ‘heesh’ to refer to all persons equally, regardless of their chosen gender. This will of course apply not only to humans, but to all animals.
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10 Ways Our Minds Warp Time
How time perception is warped by life-threatening situations, eye movements, tiredness, hypnosis, age, the emotions and more...
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Millennials are just about as racist as their parents
Racial slurs that have cropped up chants, e-mails and white boards on America's college campuses have some people worried about whether the nation's diverse and fawned-over millennial generation is not as racially tolerant as might be expected. The Christian Science Monitor went so far as to ask, "Are millennials racist?" Surely not all millennials are racist, but data can address a key related question: Are white millennials less racially prejudiced than past generations?
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Nothing beats a good night’s sleep for helping people absorb new information, new research reveals
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have found that successful long-term learning happens after classroom teaching, after the learners have slept on the new material. Academics from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway taught a group of people new words from a fictional language, which unknown to them, was characterised by a rule relating the new words to one another.
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Butchery is in the blood even of the meat-free
The skin did not come off like a sweater, as I’d been told it would. I’d looked at how to do it in the classic Joy of Cooking, figuring the directions for squirrel couldn’t be much different from rabbit: hook it through the heels, yank the skin down to its paws. I didn’t have a hook, but even the falconer, Chris Davis, who had given me this squirrel, made it seem so simple – use scissors, he’d said, and snip horizontally into each side from the gaping hole where he’d gutted it...
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The trolley and the psychopath
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A trolley carrying five school children is headed for a cliff. You happen to be standing at the switch, and you could save their lives by diverting the trolley to another track. But there he is – an innocent fat man, picking daisies on that second track, oblivious to the rolling thunder (potentially) hurtling his way... By Sally Adee
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Why Bad News Is Good News
Consuming bad news is evolutionarily adaptive, but the nature of the social Web might limit its supply.
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Asne Seierstad’s ‘One of Us,’ About Rampage in Norway
“One of Us” explores a dark side of contemporary Scandinavia through the life and crimes of Anders Behring Breivik, a mass murderer who killed 77 people, most of them teenagers.
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The Role of Doubt in Science
Doubt is inherently human and it has a useful purpose, but that doesn’t mean it’s OK to keep questioning climate change, evolution, and the power of vaccines.
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Why you should really start doing more things alone
On any given Friday night, bars, restaurants and movie theaters tend to fill up with people spending time with friends, lovers, and family. But when the weekend comes, those who find themselves on their own are likelier to be found on the couch, at home, doing something in private. There's nothing particularly strange here. But maybe we're missing out when we automatically choose to stay in when we don't have social plans.
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Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?
When opposing nations gained access to nuclear weapons, it fundamentally changed the logic of war. You might say that it made questions about war more cleanly logical—with nuclear-armed belligerents, there are fewer classic military analyses about morale, materiel, and maneuverings. Hundreds of small-scale tactical decisions dissolve into a few hugely important large-scale strategic ones, like, What happens if one side drops a nuclear bomb on its nuclear-armed opponent?
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Tea consent
A metaphor about consent!
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Use Stress to Your Advantage
Imagine that you work for an organization with hundreds of employees and you’re about to give a presentation to the entire group. The CEO and all the board members are in the audience. You’ve been anxious about this talk all week, and now your heart is pounding. Your palms are sweating. Your mouth feels dry. What is the best thing to do in this moment? Should you try to calm down or try to feel excited?
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How neurotic are you? one-minute personality test (2/5)
Discover the second of second five components of your personality with this one-minute test.
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Ugly plane ride drives Muslim chaplain to tears
The airline said the incident was a misunderstanding.
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I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me
How a simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice took over the American college campus.
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Powerful People Are Sensitive to Unfairness—If They're the Victims
It's a perplexing phenomenon. Powerful people, such as Wall Street bankers, will react quickly and loudly to any perceived slights, while less-powerful ones let things slide—at least until the affronts they suffer become so egregious that they spark a riot. Why do instances of unfairness produce such disparate reactions? Newly published research suggests a deep-seated psychological phenomenon provides at least part of the answer.
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Don’t be fooled by a know-all
‘These days, the last refuge of the overconfident bullshitter is on country walks’
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