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Mark Hawthorne, a Man of Few Words Except, ‘I Hate You’
Long before he drummed on upended pails at People’s Park in Berkeley, Calif., Mark Hawthorne wrote about impromptu instruments in Washington Square Park... By David W. Dunlap.
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The Mysterious Power of Arrogance
Why do overbearing, obnoxious people so often come out on top? What a story from Papua New Guinea reveals about the rise of Donald Trump. By Joel Robbins, (Feb. 2, 2017)
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“I begged him to come home”: Breaking the taboo around texting the dead
Many people text dead loved ones to cope with their grief – but trouble arises when they get an unexpected reply. By Amelia Tait.
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Why Liberals Aren’t as Tolerant as They Think
The political left might consider itself more open-minded than the right. But research shows that liberals are just as prejudiced against conservatives as conservatives are against liberals. By Matthew Hutson.
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More Is More
Deborah Cohen reviews “Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First” by Frank Trentmann.
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Facebook Won’t Say If They’ll Use your Brain Activity for Advertisements
Every year, Facebook gathers hundreds of developers, corporate allies, and members of the press to hear CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of our shared near future. The gathering is known as “F8,” and this year’s iteration included some radical plans, one of which could’ve been pulled from a William Gibson novel… By Sam Biddle.
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Who names diseases?
Swine Flu, Naples Soldier, Ebola. Disease names express fear, create stigma and distract attention. Can they be improved? By Laura Spinney.
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How Interracial Love Is Saving America
"As a descendant of slaves and slaveholders, I embody uncomfortable incongruities — just as America does." By Sheryll Cashin. (June 3, 2017)
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Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires
What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves. By Sean Illing with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
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The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump
“There is reason to look for psychological types,” Adorno explained, “because the world in which we live is typed and ‘produces’ different ‘types’ of persons.” By Peter E. Gordon. (June 15, 2016)
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Studies find the need to feel unique is linked to belief in conspiracy theories
The belief in conspiracy theories could be motivated in part by the desire to stand out. Two separate teams of researchers in Europe have independently found evidence that the desire to feel unique is linked to the belief in conspiracies.
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We ignore what doesn’t fit with our biases – even if it costs us
We tend to pay more attention to information that confirms our own beliefs and biases, and we are prepared to lose money to stick to our guns. By Jessica Hamzelou.
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How to Be Diplomatic
Diplomacy seeks to teach us how many good things can still be accomplished when we make some necessary accommodations with the crooked, sometimes touching and hugely unreliable material of human nature.
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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster.
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High cognitive ability not a safeguard from conspiracies, paranormal beliefs
The moon landing and global warming are hoaxes. The U.S. government had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. A UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Is skepticism toward these kinds of unfounded beliefs just a matter of cognitive ability?
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Why Would a 16-Year-Old Girl Slaughter Her Uber Driver?
Inside the minds of murderous young women. By Lyz Lenz.
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From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish? By André Spicer.
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Fact-Free
Where No Center Holds. By Alexander Zubatov.
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28 Psychological Experiments That Will Change What You Think You Know About Yourself
The nature of human behaviour is complex, sometimes illogical, and often difficult to understand. We, however, are curious creatures, eager to find out the truths behind every question, always striving to know more. That is why there’s no surprise that over the years many psychological experiments were conducted in order to delve deeper into the human mind and to clear out the why’s and the how’s of our behaviour. By Agne.
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Che, Stalin, Mussolini and the Thinkers Who Loved Them
Why are intellectuals and thinkers, who normally face persecution and risk under dictatorial regimes, nonetheless attracted to tyrants and would-be liberators? By Aram Bakshian Jr.
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