psychology
- Drone pilots have a front-row seat on war, from half a world away
- In a low, tan building in Nevada, Air Force personnel sit in padded chairs and control aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan. They are 7,500 miles away, yet feel more affected by war than ever.
- 2010-02-21 to drone, military, psychology, technology, war by lipi
- Jonah Lehrer: Accept Defeat - The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
- Experiments rarely tell us what we expect. That's the dirty secret of science.
- 2010-01-17 to bestof, experiment, neuroscience, psychology, science, scientist by soobrosa
- Addicted to Cute
- America has been flooded by a tsunami of cute–we’re drowning in puppies and kittens and bunnies and cupcakes–that is transforming marketing (the geico Gecko), automobiles (the Smart car), and movies (Up). But is the world bound to sour on all this s
- 2009-11-16 to bestof, culture, cuteness, pop, psychology, society, trend, world by bagoly
- Tom Slee: No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart
- The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice
- 2009-10-26 to bestof, books, business, decision, psychology by soobrosa
- Stephen Marche: What's Really Going on With All These Vampires?
- From Twilight to True Blood and now The Vampire Diaries, is it vampires that so many American women love... or just gay men?
- 2009-10-24 to bestof, fiction, gay, movies, psychology, story, vampire by soobrosa
- Q&A with Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations, neurological curiosities and a passion for understanding
- There are something like 50 visual sub-centers and all of them have to talk with each other and be orchestrated, and there’s no conductor, they all orchestrate themselves.
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, biology, books, brain, neurology, psychology, senses by soobrosa
- Peter Nicholson: Information-rich and attention-poor
- Coping with the troubling tradeoff between depth of what we know and how fast we retrieve it may require something like peripheral intellectual vision .
- 2009-09-27 to attention, bestof, data, information, media, psychology by soobrosa
- Clive Thompson: Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
- “If someone tells you that you can influence 1,000 people,” Fowler said, “it changes your way of seeing the world.”
- 2009-09-27 to behaviour, bestof, infection, meme, network, psychology, society, statistics by soobrosa
- David Kushner: The Boy Who Heard Too Much
- He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower — one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI .
- 2009-09-19 to antisocial, bestof, bully, internet, media, psychology, social hacking, story by soobrosa
- The Smoking Gun: Outing An Online Outlaw
- A TSG investigation unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone call criminality.
- 2009-09-19 to antisocial, bestof, bully, internet, media, psychology, social hacking, story by soobrosa
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