Posts from August 2012
- Daniel Kahneman: Why Moving to California Won’t Make You Happy — August 31
- The science and psychology of memory — August 31
- What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time — August 31
- Playing Games for All the Wrong Reasons — August 31
- The Neuroscience of 20-Somethings — August 31
- How to Forgive, and Why You Should — August 31
- Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep — August 30
- The Algebra of Coffee Consumption — August 30
- The Compendious Coffee Chart — August 30
- How To Be Unhappy — August 30
- 10 Reasons Why Some People Love What They Do — August 30
- Understanding the Psychology of the American Idea of Choice — August 30
- The Imperfect Balance Between Work and Life — August 30
- The Science of Bad Neuroscience — August 30
- Learning a Second Language can Improve a Child's Memory — August 29
- Memory Enhanced by a Simple Break After Reading — August 29
- Why Morning Routines are Creativity Killers — August 29
- The Psychology of Customer Service — August 29
- Why Being Busy Can Keep You From Getting Ahead — August 29
- “Books are the training weights of the mind.” — August 29
- Science awakes to benefits of Yoga — August 29
- Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics — August 28
- Why Gadgets Are Great for Introverts — August 28
- A Point Of View: The trouble with freedom — August 28
- Brushing Your Teeth Keeps Your Brain Healthy — August 28
- Riddled with irregularity — August 28
- The Psychology of Team Turnarounds — August 27
- Redefining Work and Ourselves — August 27
- The Neuroscience of Creativity and Insight — August 27
- The Only 2 Tricks You Need for Maximum Productivity — August 27
- Watching reruns can actually help restore willpower — August 27
- Top 5 Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer — August 27
- Awe expands your sense of time - and makes you less materialistic — August 27
- Getting lost in a good book can help keep you healthy — August 27
- John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering — August 27
- What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier — August 27
- Learning while you sleep: Dream or reality? — August 27
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Indie Developer Lifestyle — August 26
- Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged — August 25
- microsoft logo — August 25
- 10 Studies That Reveal What Customers WANT You To Know About Them — August 25
- How Umbria Changed My Mind About Italy — August 25
- Language and Emotion – Insights from Psychological Science — August 25
- Macintosh Stories: On Xerox, Apple and Progress — August 25
- Michael Mauboussin’s Behavioral Economics Reading List — August 25
- Usability Expert: Windows 8 on PCs is Confusing, a Cognitive Burden — August 24
- Everything in Writing and Life is Fiction — August 24
- What popular science books have changed the world? — August 24
- 10 Bands That Changed the Sound That Made Them Famous — August 24
- What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day — August 24
- The Top 10 Psychology Books You Should Read — August 24
- The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory — August 24
- Brain Science: 10 New Studies That Get Inside Your Head — August 24
- The psychology behind the appeal of original artwork — August 24
- How Do Cats Purr? — August 23
- Google Introduces "TrueView" Ads for YouTube on Android — August 23
- 7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain — August 23
- Creativity may be a nerd’s best revenge — August 23
- Time Flies When You’re Having Goal-Motivated Fun — August 23
- A little music training goes a long way: Practicing music for only few years in childhood helps improve adult brain — August 23
- no title — August 23
- Spirituality correlates to better mental health regardless of religion, say MU researchers — August 23
- The Interesting Times Triangle — August 23
- The Philosophical Roots of Science Fiction — August 22
- Why meditation is not just sitting — August 22
- Greek myths shed light on our modern world — August 22
- 12 Choices Your Future Self Will Thank You For — August 22
- 100 novels everyone should read — August 22
- Psychologists link emotion to vividness of perception and creation of vivid memories — August 22
- Guessing Game: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as Written by Other Famous Authors — August 22
- For Those Who Want to Lead, Read — August 21
- Embracing Creativity — August 21
- How to Start Meditating — August 21
- The Science Behind Why Power Naps Help You Stay Productive and Creative — August 21
- Six things you need to know about your users — August 21
- Stop Calling Sherlock a Sociopath! Thanks, a Psychologist. — August 20
- The Difference Between Time Management and Task Management — August 20
- Fending Off Life’s Slings and Arrows, Such as Divorce, with Stoicism — August 20
- The Point of Exclamation — August 20
- The 10 Best End of the World Novels — August 20
- Top 100 Teen Books — August 20
- The Right Way and Wrong Way to Let Your Mind Wander — August 20
- Where Do Sentences Come From? — August 20
- Can Meditation Make You Smarter? — August 20
- Why Living in the Moment Is Impossible — August 20
- Understanding the Dangers of “Ego-Depletion” — August 20
- The Disciplined Pursuit of Less — August 17
- 11 Songs Inspired by Literature — August 17
- If Hemingway wrote JavaScript — August 16
- A Brief History of Money — August 16
- The Calendar as a Meme: A Brief History of Timekeeping — August 16
- The iPad Put A Fork In Personal Computing — August 16
- Strangers on a bus: Study reveals lengths commuters go to avoid each other — August 16
- The Moral Limits of Markets — August 16
- Italo Calvino's 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic — August 16
- The secret allure of the spoiler — August 15
- Notes Towards a Philosophy of Sleep — August 15
- The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time — August 15
- A Conversation with Robert Bellah — August 15
- The Psychology of Employee Retention — August 14
- The Death of TV: 5 Reasons People Are Fleeing Traditional TV — August 14
- Samsung is Apple's Biggest Fan — August 14
- Golden Ratio in logo designs — August 14
- Increasing The Productivity of Computer Programmers and Engineers — August 14
- Some things I've learnt about programming — August 13
- Empirics and Psychology: Eight of the World’s Top Young Economists Discuss Where Their Field Is Going — August 6
- Learning New Tasks Is Good For You - But Difficult — August 6
- 15 of the Greatest Lists in Literature — August 6
- 11 Meta-Novels That Will Blow Your Mind — August 6
- Music we like can be more distracting than music we don't — August 3
- Revealing the Psychology of Playing Card Magic — August 3
- For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump — August 3
- You Are (Probably) Wrong About You — August 3
- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge — August 1