http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/psy?feed=rss&pg=2 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "psy" on Netvouz http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/ # Nuke it! The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it. If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list. # Daily goals. Without a clear focus, it’s too easy to succumb to distractions. Set targets for each day in advance. Decide what you’ll do; then do it. # Worst first. To defeat procrastination learn to tackle your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very productive day. # Peak times. Identify your peak cycles of productivity, and schedule your most important tasks for those times. Work on minor tasks during your non-peak times. emmineb Thu, 03 May 2007 11:19:39 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/pliable_hydrophilic_memristor_circuits/ team of US researchers has fashioned a memory circuit that may provide an electronic bridge between man and machine. "Our memory device is soft and pliable, and functions extremely well in wet environments – similar to the human brain," one of the researchers, Michael Dickey, said when announcing the breakthrough. To construct the circuits, the team used a liquid alloy of gallium and indium, set in water-based gels. "We've created a memory device with the physical properties of Jell-O," says Dickey. emmineb Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:44:24 GMT http://www.holyjuan.com/2007/05/10-attributes-of-really-lazy-people.html 10 Attributes of Really Lazy People emmineb Thu, 10 May 2007 13:53:55 GMT http://www.creatingthe21stcentury.org/JSB3-learning-to-unlearn.html The curious thing is that with these exponential changes, so much of what we currently know is just getting to be wrong. So many of our assumptions are getting to be wrong. And so, as we move forward, not only is it going to be a question of learning but it is also going to be a question of unlearning. In fact, a lot of us who are struggling in large corporations know first hand that the hardest task is to get the corporate mind to start to unlearn some of the gospels that . emmineb Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:27:45 GMT http://web.archive.org/web/20080202135113/http://faculty.dwc.edu/nicosia/moviesandmentalillnessfilmography.htm Psychology, Psychiatry and the Movies Susan Nicosia, Associate Professor Social Sciences and Humanities Division Daniel Webster College 20 University Drive Nashua, NH 03063 nicosia@dwc.edu Link to: Psychology, Psychiatry and the Movies Bibliography emmineb Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:07:47 GMT http://american.com/archive/2009/our-epistemological-depression Major recessions are characterized by something novel. Opacity and pseudo-objectivity created the crisis today. The history of socialism is the history of failure—and so is the history of capitalism, but in a different sense. For the history of socialism is one of fundamental failure, a failure to provide incentives and an inability to coordinate information about supply and effective demand. The history of capitalism, by contrast, is the history of dialectical failure: it is a history of the creation of new institutions and practices that may be successful, even transformative for a while, but which eventually prove dysfunctional, either because their intrinsic weaknesses become more evident over time or because of a change in external circumstances. emmineb Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:48:34 GMT http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ (PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.) emmineb Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:52:11 GMT http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/vocabactivities.asp Vocabulary is a weak area for many students, but much "vocabulary instruction" ends up being handwriting practice. Edwin Ellis and Theresa Farmer describe the situation eloquently in the introduction to their clarifying strategy to teach vocabulary. To quote: emmineb Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:28:02 GMT http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/02/08/the_end_of_alone?mode=PF At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. What we lose with our constant connectedness. Don't get me wrong. I love technology. It's magical how it makes the world closer, and more immediate. Take, for instance, the real-time way we learned about the plane that skidded off a Denver runway and burst into flames in December. One of the passengers on Continental Flight 1404 used Twitter to share everything from his initial profanity- and typo-laced reaction to making it out of the fiery jet ("Holy [bleeping bleep] I wasbjust in a plane crash!") to his lament that the airline wasn't providing drinks to the survivors who'd been penned into the airport lounge ("You have your wits scared out of you, dra emmineb Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:43:54 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/page/0,,937443,00.html Baron-Cohen's theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems. He calls it the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory. Empathising is the drive to identify another person's emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion. The empathiser intuitively figures out how people are feeling, and how to treat people with care and sensitivity. Systemising is the drive to analyse and explore a system, to extract underlying rules that govern the behaviour of a system; and the drive to construct systems. emmineb Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:25:24 GMT