The Backfire Effect The Misconception: When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking. The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger. Wired, The New York Times, Backyard Poultry Magazine – they all do it. Sometimes, they screw up and get the facts wrong. In ink or in electrons, a reputable news source takes the time to say “my bad.” If you are in the news business and want to maintain your reputation for accuracy, you publish corrections. In 2006, Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler at The University of Michigan and Georgia State University created fake newspaper articles about polarizing political issues. They repeated the experiment with other wedge issues like stem cell research and tax reform, and once again, they found corrections tended to increase the strength of the participants’ misconceptions if those corrections contradicted their ideologies. No, probably not.
100 Ways to Simplify Your Life (and Make Yourself Happier) & miss minimalist I’ve been striving to simplify my life for many years now, and have recently (through my writing) been advising others how to do the same. In the process, I’ve learned that making little changes in our attitudes, habits, and environment can have a big impact. So today, I thought I’d compile a list of 100 ways to simplify your life – from the practical to the philosophical, and everything in between. Of course, not every item on the list will work for every person reading it. AROUND THE HOUSE1. WARDROBE AND STYLE21. KITCHEN AND DINING36. OFFICE AND TECH46. TIME MANAGEMENT66. ATTITUDE81. MISCELLANEOUS96.
Le Top 50 des expressions pro les plus exaspérantes du moment 1. qui va bien = dans « Mets-moi le p’tit graphique qui va bien dans la prez’ ». Employé très abusivement dans le milieu de la com’. Expression à vomir. 2. « juste » = comme dans « C’est JUSTE exaspérant ! 3. être à l’aise / en phase / confortable avec… = associer des mots de cocooning au jargon pro, pour plus de douceur dans ce monde de brutes ? 4. deadline = jour après lequel si t’as pas fini ton taf t’es mort. 5. ça fait du sens = abominable utilisation de la langue française qui semble signifier que ça A du sens, voire que ça en fabrique. 6. asap = as soon as possible = expression complètement has-been qui s’enracine malgré tout = « J’attends ton retour asap » 7. charrette = comme asap, « charrette » est vieux comme Le monde et veut dire « être en retard » comme dans « Je suis charrette sur ma prez’ ». 8. sous l’eau = charrette = tellement submergée de trucs à faire qu’on se noie. 9. le pipe (prononcé « païpe ») = « avoir des projets dans le pipe » = dans les tuyaux 15. 29. 33. 43.
A Girl and Her Room – Girls rooms from around the world A Girl and Her Room – Girls rooms from around the world “A Girl and Her Room” is a photography project by Rania Matar, a Lebanese-American photographer who has traveled the world to make pictures of girls rooms between 12 and 20 years to mark the differences but also similarities… source: Rania Matar inspire me, i dare you. The 6 Different Types Of Procrastinators - Find Your Type &Well Show You How To Fix It We are all guilty of procrastination at some point in our lives. We get caught up in other activities and put some of our most important ‘to-do’s’ on the back burner only to feel crappy about not acting on it earlier when it comes around to bite us on our lazy asses. Good thing for you we have a list of the 6 different types of procrastinators. We are all at least one type out of the 6 featured, some of us are an amalgamation of a few of these. Find which one you are, or one(s) you are and get ready to shake your world up with some extra life accomplishments. Procrastination tips for everyone: - Get help from others (professors, friends, family) to stay accountable. - Keep a daily journal to evaluate your use of time. - Practice visualization. - Create a timeline for completing a task or achieving a goal, with specific, short-term steps along the way. I set this as my Desktop Wallpaper, It has helped me stop procrastinating, try it on your desktop also and let me know if you see progress.
10 Websites To Make You Think | The Online Learning Blog from Study2U Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television. Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen. Ted A conference that started in 1984 bringing together experts in technology, entertainment and design quickly grew into so much more. New Scientist The New Scientist website carries new articles from the magazine as well as the NS archive of over 76,000 pieces. Big Think The Big Think website is a collection of ‘global thought leaders’ who offer their thoughts and analysis on world events and other important developments. Café Scientifque ‘for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology’ Breathing Earth This fantastic website by David Bleja demonstrates CO2 emissions and world population growth in real time on a global map. Arts & Letters Daily How Stuff Works
Puppies and Flowers » 60 beautiful vintage Travel Posters I recommend clicking on the images for the higher resolution versions. A second life for practice? For 30 years, New York psychologist Richard H. Wexler, PhD, has helped companies develop effective leaders and productive teams. But in the last three years, much of his work has taken place not in Manhattan office buildings, but in virtual meeting rooms. There, digital versions of employers and employees, or avatars, come together to work on projects, get training and receive help with professional or personal problems. "Until recently, the technology just wasn't available for the average practitioner to be able to do this sort of thing," says Wexler. "But it's moving so rapidly that [now] you're limited only by your imagination." Wexler and his wife, psychologist and executive coach Suzanne Roff-Wexler, PhD, are part of an emerging cadre of psychological practitioners, researchers, trainers and product developers who are bringing avatars and other forms of virtual technology into the practice realm. That's also the case with student training or business applications. Flat-screen apps
16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. Because some of these 16 things in this article a teacher probably spoke about in class. Some of it would probably not have stuck in my mind anyway. But I still think that taking a few hours from all those German language classes and use them for some personal development classes would have been a good idea. So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier). 1. This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think. You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on – a whole bunch of things. And if you do that you will have more time and energy to spend on those things that really brings your value, happiness, fulfilment and so on. 2. 3. 4. 5.
89 Simple Swaps That Could Change Your Life Whole grains for white, quality for quantity, Wii Fit for Mario Kart—just one smart swap can pave the way to a healthier and happier life. We decided to go all out and provide 89 “this for that’s,” so there are no excuses when it comes to making healthier choices! Fitness 1. Planks for Crunches OK have we said this enough? 2. Congrats on that 26.2-mile marathon. 3. In a perfect, outdoor world, flat roads rarely exist. 4. Trash that Cosmo-reading elliptical routine and surprise the body with a fun, calorie-burning cardio session. 5. Stretching out cold muscles could lead to injury. 6. We know that barbell looks tempting. 7. How often does someone complain about having to sit in a cubicle all day? 8. Okay, we get it. 9. Falling asleep at the wheel? 10. Skip the big machines (they’re sweaty anyway) and go for the little guys—free weights are more versatile and allow for a full range of motion in the joints. 11. Isolating muscles is so 2012. 12. Forget staying seated to work out the legs. 13.