The Hedonistic Imperative: Table Of Contents ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION 0.1 The Naturalisation of Heaven 0.2 Saving Vehicles With Bad Drivers 0.3 Humans Are Not Rats 0.4 Life In Dopaminergic Overdrive HOW?1.0 Sabotage At The Mill 1.1 The Biological Program 1.2 Pumping Up The Volume 1.3 The Civilising Neurotransmitter 1.4 The Cardinal Importance Of Delayed Gratification 1.5 The Molecular Genetics Of Paradise 1.6 The Re-encephalisation Of Emotion 1.7 How Could Anything Be So Good? 1.8 All We Need Is Love? WHEN? 40 Superb Psychology Blogs PsyBlog Forty of the best psychology blogs, chosen to give you a broad sweep of the most interesting content being produced online right now. The list is split into three sections: first are more general psychological blogs, followed by those with an academic slant, followed by condition specific and patient perspective blogs. Other than that the blogs are presented in no particular order. Updated Sep 2012 to reflect blogs that are now inactive. General: PsyBlog: The blog you’re reading right now—you should subscribe to PsyBlog here.MindHacks: links to psychological goodness from all around the web. More academic: Dr Petra Boynton: sex educator and academic exposes media misrepresentations of science.Babel’s Dawn: exploring the origins of language.The Neurocritic: anonymous, critical, mischievous.Advances in the History of Psychology: it’s all in the title.Deric Bounds’ MindBlog: biological view of the brain from an Emeritus Professor. Condition specific/patient perspective blogs: Panic!
Open for discussion: Graham Hancock, Rupert Sheldrake, TEDxWhitechapel UPDATE: Please see our new blog post Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake, a fresh take, which replaces the x-ed out text below. To discuss the talks, view them here: The debate about Rupert Sheldrake’s talkThe debate about Graham Hancock’s talk After due diligence, including a survey of published scientific research and recommendations from our Science Board and our community, we have decided that Graham Hancock’s and Rupert Sheldrake’s talks from TEDxWhitechapel should be removed from distribution on the TEDx YouTube channel. We’re not censoring the talks. Instead we’re placing them here, where they can be framed to highlight both their provocative ideas and the factual problems with their arguments. All talks on the TEDxTalks channel represent the opinion of the speaker, not of TED or TEDx, but we feel a responsibility not to provide a platform for talks which appear to have crossed the line into pseudoscience. UPDATE: Please find Rupert Sheldrake’s response below the video window.
WAR Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player’s total contributions to their team in one statistic. You should always use more than one metric at a time when evaluating players, but WAR is pretty darn all-inclusive and provides a handy reference point. WAR basically looks at a player and asks the question, “If this player got injured and their team had to replace them with a minor leaguer or someone from their bench, how much value would the team be losing?” Calculating WAR is simpler than you’d think. ● Offensive players – Take wRAA, UBR & wSB, and UZR (which express offensive, base running, and defensive value in runs above average) and add them together. ● Pitchers – Where offensive WAR used wRAA and UZR, pitching WAR uses FIP. WAR is available in two places: FanGraphs (fWAR) and Baseball-Reference (rWAR). Context: League-average WAR rates vary. For position players and starting pitchers, here is a good rule-of-thumb chart:
Evolutionary Holacracy : Expérience Intermarché et « Holacratie évolutive » Une Nouvelle Année, Une Nouvelle façon de penser. Et si nous commencions l’année 2013 par un grand OUI? C’est une nouvelle année qui commence, un nouveau cycle. Et si aprés avoir tant entendu parler de fin du monde nous nous concentrions sur quelques choses de plus… positif. Si nous mettons en avant cette très célèbre citation d’Albert Einstein sur notre site, « les problèmes auxquels nous sommes confrontés ne peuvent être résolu au niveau et avec la façon de penser qui les a engendrés » c’est avant partout parce qu’elle est porteuse d’un sens profond de notre relation à la vie. Pour chacun d’entre nous cela veut dire se poser la question du sens de notre existence et comme un fractal, cela se répercute à chaque niveau de notre existence. La vie est-elle quelque chose de positif? Et si nous faisions de cette nouvelle année l’occasion du retour de l’optimisne? C’est avec cette positivité que nous vous souhaitons à tous de vivre cette nouvelle année! Que la bonne année soit bonne!
Themes in Psychology PsyBlog PsyBlog Themes in Psychology Below are collected the series published on PsyBlog which focus on specific areas of psychology over several posts. Social psychology How we are affected by the presence of other people, whether it is actual, imagined or implied. Cognitive psychology Examines cognitive and emotional processes: how we think, perceive, remember, learn and create. Motivation/Emotion Mind and Body Cyberpsychology Top 10s Some top 10 studies ranging across various areas of psychology. Money/Work A series of special articles on our relationship with work, money and consumerism. Happiness What scientists have discovered about what makes us happy and how we can become happier. Text: © All rights reserved. Images: Creative Commons License
Comment la Terre change sous nos yeux | Autres sujets émergents | Sujets émergents Merci aux satellites ! L'article ci-dessous nous apporte des preuves ! " La planète change, et nous en sommes fortement responsables. Si certaines évolutions sont naturelles (comme par exemple les éruptions volcaniques), l'activité humaine, du fait de l'urbanisation galopante, de l'industrialisation polluante ou de la déforestation massive, accélère grandement le changement climatique, n'en déplaisent aux climatosceptiques. C'est ce que montre la NASA américaine dans des séries d'images satellite, World of Change, qui documente comment les terres, les océans, l'atmosphère et le soleil de notre planète évoluent année après année. Ces transformations ont été captées par huit satellites du programme Landsat, un projet du Centre américain de veille géologique des Etats-Unis (USGS) et de la NASA lancé en 1972 - qui ont également été à l'origine du projet similaire Timelapse, déjà évoqué sur ce blog. Le monde se réchauffe de manière constante depuis le début de la révolution industrielle.
Quitting Adderall: Work and Productivity 9 Adderall-Created Work Habits that You Must Overcome Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 by Mike 1. Waiting for the buzz to kick-in before starting to work. On Adderall, your work routine looks like this: Have work to do. Heather’s Tips for Quitting Adderall Friday, November 18th, 2011 by Mike Mike note: Fellow ex-Adderallic Heather sent me the following tips via comment, and I think they’re all spot-on. Misery Bear Goes to Work [video] Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 by Mike Here’s a little humor for you. 6 Ways to Outsmart Your Lazy, ADD Brain Monday, November 15th, 2010 by Mike A Quick Story of a Real-Life Absent-Minded Professor A psychology teacher of mine told a story of a friend he had in graduate school who was studying cockroach behavior (in order to gleam insights into human instinct and impulse). 3 People Who Invented Their Own Job (And Love It) [VIDEO] Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 by Mike Adderall helps you fit into any mold. How to Speed Up and Slow Down Time at Work Office Job [COMIC]
NetLogo Home Page NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by many tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. What can you do with NetLogo? Join mailing lists here. Download NetLogo Go to NetLogo Web NetLogo comes with a large library of sample models. Sabermetrics Library One of the things that makes baseball interesting is that none of the playing fields are the same. In the NHL, NBA, and NFL there are certain things that might make certain stadiums feel different than one another, but the measurements of each are the same. In baseball, the bases are all 90 feet apart and the mound is at regulation length, but the fences vary by distance and height. You can travel to all 30 parks and never see the same same dimensions twice, but that also poses a problem when trying to evaluate the game because there’s an additional variable influencing the outcome of every plate appearance. If we want to properly evaluate players and teams we need to have some way of adjusting for the fact that every park is different. More specifically, each park plays differently for reasons beyond the outfield dimensions. These park factors are imperfect for a variety of reasons, but what they’re after is on the money. How Parks Vary It’s not just the dimensions. The Noble Goal