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POPSSharism: A Mind Revolution However, daily decisions for most adults are quite low in creative productivity, if only because they've switched off their sharing paths. People generally like to share what they create, but in a culture that tells them to be protective of their ideas, people start to believe in the danger of sharing. Then Sharism will be degraded in their mind and not encouraged in their society. But if we can encourage someone to share, her sharing paths will stay open. Sharism will be kept in her mind as a memory and an instinct. If in the future she faces a creative choice, her choice will be, "Share."
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POPSSamsung Beats Motorola in U.S. Cellphones A sad day for Motorola, which, despite all its problems, had managed to hold on to its No. 1 ranking in U.S. cellphones for the past several quarters. For Samsung, it's a historic first. Both companies are planning to roll out Android phones in the next year. It will be interesting to see their different takes on the platform.
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POPSTalking to Myself "Somewhere else I can hear somebody saying, 'In Christ there is no East nor West.' And then they go on and talk about, 'In Him there's no North and South, but one great Fellowship of Love throughout the whole wide world.'" -- "The Major Drum Instinct," Martin Luther King, Jr.
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POPSPaulson's Folly Insightful take by WashPost's Pearlstein on what's gone wrong with the bailout.
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POPSDeal or No Deal? The Role of Emotions in Negotiating Offers Interestingly, the negotiators who were guided by their emotions did not fare worse than the others financially. Indeed, they ended up with at least as much, and often more, than their more calculating counterparts, suggesting that emotional decision making may not only be simpler, but may also be more lucrative.
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POPSThe Things Their Families Carried “Oftentimes you would see a family go up to the grave and they would just launch themselves onto the tombstone and start crying,” Mr. Alpert said. “Our instinct as reporters was ‘We have to film that.’ And we didn’t. We would stand there, and then we would go over without the cameras running, and we would talk to people. And we would explain who we were, why we were there, and ask if it would be possible for them to share with us.”
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POPSDavid Brooks: Bush shows why Palin unqualified This part of the populist strain of American conservatism disdains knowledge and prudence, favoring instinct, and compensates for lack of experience with brashness. They're great at rallying cries, but inept at the complex, historically contextual discipline of governance. She's not familiar enough with US history, for instance, to understand the significance of what she does. His government demonstrates the failure of her approach.
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POPSFrom the rat to the moon, all about numbers “What’s interesting and surprising in our results is that the same system we spend years trying to acquire in school, and that we use to send a man to the moon, and that has inspired the likes of Plato, Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has something in common with what a rat is doing when it’s out hunting for food,” he said. “I find that deeply moving.” Behind every great leap of our computational mind lies the pitter-patter of rats’ feet, the little squeak of rodent kind."
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POPSWhat Beats What In Poker Folks, let me present these famous hand rankings to you and welcome you to the game at the same time ! Poker is a fantastic card game like no other. No other game has such an explosive mix of luck, instinct and math. So you’re ready to win your first tournament ? And take down the 1,000,000 dollar first prize? Well figure out what beats what in poker first !
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POPSCar pulling you over -- is that a real cop? Know your rights ahead of time. Prepare. There are good programs on the internet to teach you what to do. There is an 8 question quiz and a video at http://www.flexyourrights.org/ If that site doesn't work, try http://www.american-synergy.com/Learning/Video/Solutions/Video-Citizens_Guide.htm
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POPSMen Pheromones Pheromones are the key chemical component in sexual attraction. It is true that animals and humans give off certain pheromones that trigger sexual attraction from the opposite sex.
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POPSFarewell paper news and newspapers. Digital news sources - aggregators - are replacing now our old habit to open newspaper with morning cap of coffee. When you can see video clips on podcasts and youtube and read about something from numerous sources directly on your mobile phones - you will leave newspapers, magazines and even books in elusive past. Now the problem only are a quality of those sources and their tailoring to the needs of each of us. One of possible solution could be comprehensive chart in the end of article and sizable incentives for concerned readers.
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POPSThe Moral Instinct "the science of the moral sense can advance it, by allowing us to see through the illusions that evolution and culture have saddled us with and to focus on goals we can share and defend. As Anton Chekhov wrote, “Man will become better when you show him what he is like.”
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POPSA face you can trust
When deciding who to trust, the research suggests, people use shortcuts. For example, they look at faces. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot. By studying people's reactions to a range of artificially-generated faces, Oosterhof and Todorov were able to identify a set of features that seemed to engender trust. Working from those findings, they were able to create a continuum: faces with high inner eyebrows and pronounced cheekbones struck people as trustworthy, faces with low inner eyebrows and shallow cheekbones untrustworthy. In a paper published in June, they suggested that our unconscious bias is a byproduct of more adaptive instincts: the features that make a face strike us as trustworthy, if exaggerated, make a face look happy - with arching inner eyebrows and upturned mouths - and an exaggerated "untrustworthy"
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POPSConfidence game - The science of Trustworthiness Researchers have discovered that surprisingly small factors - where we meet someone, whether their posture mimics ours, even the slope of their eyebrows or the thickness of their chin - can matter as much or more than what they say about themselves. We size up someone's trustworthiness within milliseconds of meeting them, and while we can revise our first impression, there are powerful psychological tendencies that often prevent us from doing so - tendencies that apply even more strongly if we've grown close.
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POPSRobot controlled by own biological brain They used rat neurones. Maybe we'll discover what rats have been thinking, or how the nature of thinking varies from species to species, if and what significant 'character' differences there are. We may even find rats have the potential to be much smarter than we thought they were. The neurons act in response to stimuli. Maybe the best way to describe them is 'curious' It can be fairly certain there will be no official testing with human neurones, but there will be testing. I also wonder if the instinct for self preservation goes that deep - Sounds like the kind of thing that would interest the military.
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