“Exploring the internet can just be picking up random factoids that don’t mean anything”, he said. “The person who won the Nobel prize in biology isn’t the person who read the most journals. It was the person who knew what to look for,”
Noam Chomsky – Why we need to decide what education is
“Our appetite for understanding and improving memory is tremendous, and French is hopeful that the false memory project will raise awareness about the intricacies of remembering. “People have so many misconceptions about the way memory works,” he says. In part, that’s because memories are so infrequently challenged. The few times they are, he says, are in the courts, after anomalous claims – like seeing aliens or the Lochness monster – or, he adds with a wry smile, in romantic relationships.”
Remembering things that never happened
Very much looking forward to what this project produces.
Interesting trailer for a new documentary about about stylish New York older ladies. Advanced Style
‘Young women you’re going to be an old woman some day. Don’t worry about it, don’t sweat it.’
The only blue thing about today was the sky! Despite a mega busy day I managed to stumble across two tracks. Baleric housey vibes and a deep abstract wonderful thing from Workshop.
Contrails like this stop me every time. Today I read about them. They even have a conspiracy theory.
“If you haven’t learned to live with your unhappy chemicals, you might get into the habit of scrambling for another dopamine burst in any way possible. You seek the next promotion or the next party or the next donut or the next mountain or the next confrontation, depending on how your brain got wired. Your create frustration, which means more unhappy chemicals and a more frantic quest to trigger happy chemicals.”
“Today, dopamine fuels a student through long years of medical school. It fuels an athlete through long hours of training. Dopamine plays a central role in our survival. But the effort to manipulate your brain into giving you constant highs is not really in your own survival interest. You are better off accepting the ups and downs that humans have been heir to for millions of years.”
“Too often, we assume that willpower is about having strong moral fiber or gritting our teeth and staring down the treat. But that’s wrong — willpower is really about properly directing the spotlight of attention, learning how to control that short list of thoughts in working memory. It’s about realizing that if we’re thinking about the marshmallow we’re going to eat it, which is why we need to look away.”
“On one hand, new media technologies like YouTube have enabled new speakers at an alarming rate. On the other hand, no new technologies have emerged that allow us to listen to all of these new public speakers. Each video consists of a single lone individual speaking candidly to a (potentially massive) imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room”
Christopher Baker HELLO WORLD! OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP LISTENING AND LOVE THE NOISE
If you know me well you will know about ‘the list. It ‘was written after my, cough, ahem gap half year and before I moved to London.
I wrote down everything I wanted to do. It ranged from the basic – move to London, get a job, give blood to run a marathon/triathlon etc etc. Every new year I put a line through what I’ve done and add anything new I’ve decided I want to do.
Last year was a pretty productive year for the list and generally stuff. This year, amongst other more boring things some Bikram yoga is happening, 100km months, getting a ballot marathon spot at either New York, Berlin, Amsterdam or Paris more travel, new turntables! Remembering to text people back!
Now its on the internet I can’t back out. Hello 2012
“The process of (mechanical) self-creation that Timeline asks of its users is going to be difficult. We’re talking about people’s lives here, and if you haven’t heard, life can be hard. Businessweek tech writer Brad Stone cut to the heart of the problem when he tweeted, “Facebook Timeline: Evidence that no one at Facebook has ever gotten fat, lost their hair or gone through a divorce.” ”
Facebook Timeline and ‘The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’
What I’m doing
What I’m Reading