Last night, I watched David Lynch’s Dune. I like Lynch’s movies, and I loved the book (at least I did, when I read it 15 or so years ago), so I was doubly disappointed that the film turned into cheesy B movie somewhere in the first 1/2 hour. The plot was good; unfortunately the acting, [...]
This is a great optical illusion. When you first look you’ll see her spinning in one direction. Now focus on her shadow, and try to imagine her spinning in the opposite direction. Alternatively, tilt your head down and look at her out of the top of your eyes, and try to imagine her spinning in [...]
The researchers continued collecting information from the parents and interviewed the teens again at age 16, and again at ages 22 and 33. At age 14, most of the children watched between one and three hours of television each day, while 13% watched more than four hours, and 10% watched less than one hour. Their [...]
Snippet from an essay on Beyond Intractibility, which is a site containing a knowledgebase centered around ideas useful for conflict resolution. Worth a browse. There are several key ways in which people attempt to overcome, or do away with, cognitive dissonance. One is by ignoring or eliminating the dissonant cognitions. By pretending that ice cream [...]
But as our post-millennial neuroscientists marvelled at the sparkling, dare I say spectral, patterns cascading from their high-resolution brain scanners, they were nagged by a mischievous question: who’s running the show? How does the brain, with its diverse and distributed functions, come to arrive at a unified sense of identity? “Soul” doesn’t figure in the [...]
A good list of ways to detect dishonesty in social interactions: • Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space. • A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact. • [...]
The Power Of Nightmares pushes a theory of rule by fear, and posits that the war on terror is an overblown hoopla. It compares and contrasts the historical development and rise to power of the Islamic Fundamentalists, and the Neo Cons. Download and watch it now. [UPDATE - Argh, archive.org lost the mpeg. Never fear [...]
Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man) Affirming The Consequent Amazing Familiarity Ambiguous Assertion Appeal To Anonymous Authority Appeal To Authority Appeal To Coincidence Appeal To Complexity Appeal To False Authority Appeal To Force Appeal To Pity (Appeal to Sympathy, The Galileo Argument) Appeal To Widespread Belief (Bandwagon Argument, Peer Pressure, Appeal To Common Practice) … [...]
And the codes can be translated into practical marketing strategies. Yes, and those can be, of course, translated into how to address the real needs of the consumer, which means marketing practice and marketing strategies. For example, if I know that in America the cheese is dead, which means is pasteurized, which means legally dead [...]
1) Stare at the cross in the middle. Bye bye purple dots. 2) Notice the green dot going around the edges? There is no green dot! Link. I have been repeatedly asked to explain this in more detail, so here goes: 1. There is something called the “negative retinal afterimage”. It becomes visible when one [...]
The Stanford Prison Experiment is a classic study in psychology; volunteers were lined up for a two week 24/7 study, half to play guards and half the prisoners. The study had to be aborted after just six days because of the extreme reactions witnessed in the participants. The experiment is documented here. There’s also an [...]
Run through several cycles of the Zoomquilt (the flash one is best) and then stop. You should notice a movement in the opposite direction. This is called MAE, for Movement After Effect, showing clearly that: …motion is specifically represented somewhere in the brain (in area MT in the visual cortex as it happens) and can [...]
Q: What is ADT? Hallowell: It’s sort of like the normal version of attention deficit disorder. But it’s a condition induced by modern life, in which you’ve become so busy attending to so many inputs and outputs that you become increasingly distracted, irritable, impulsive, restless and, over the long term, underachieving. In other words, it [...]