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- The Age of the Selfish Meme March 27, 2013
- Why You’ll Hate the New Facebook Redesign March 18, 2013
- The Up-Goer Five and Quantum Mechanics January 22, 2013
- When Space Pioneers Play It Safe December 14, 2012
- The Darkness Around Suicide December 11, 2012
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Category Archives: effects
The Age of the Selfish Meme
The times, they are a-changin’. The image above (via Reddit) comes from an Australian store that has started charging $5 to customers who peruse the goods but don’t buy anything, assuming they are just looking around to buy elsewhere later (possibly … Continue reading
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Tagged change, dawkins, evolution, facebook, gene, google, meme, summly, yahoo
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Why You’ll Hate the New Facebook Redesign
Why does everyone always complain when Facebook gets a new design? As soon as the changes appear, people start moaning. It’s happening right now, as the Timeline is getting its first facelift, and things will go off the scale as the … Continue reading
The Up-Goer Five and Quantum Mechanics
What you see above is something called The Up-Goer Five Text Editor. It’s an online text editor that uses only the 1,000 most common words in the English language as its word database, giving you a warning every time you … Continue reading
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Tagged cassini, cat, english, linguistics, quantum, saturn, schrodinger, text, words
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The Darkness Around Suicide
The tragic death of the nurse who was the victim of a prank call at Kate Middleton’s hospital a few days ago highlights how little is known, or understood, about the complex issue of suicide. After the news broke that … Continue reading
Posted in effects, psychology, sociology
Tagged accidents, australian, china, current-events, djs, hospital, jacintha, middleton, military, prank, royal, saldanha, suicide, werther
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The Snooze Dilemma
Waking up is hard to do. So, to snooze or not to snooze? Well, it turns out that snoozing, like many enjoyable things in life, is critically bad for you. And you shouldn’t do it. Here’s why. First of all, … Continue reading
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Tagged alarm, dopamine, economics, gratification, serotonin, sleep, snooze, snuznluz, waking
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The Paradox of Pleasure
Which would make you a happier person, winning the lottery or being in a car crash that leaves you paraplegic? The answer to this apparently illogical question is, well, neither. Studies show that people who go through these radically different … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, behavior, churchill, draper, economy, habit, happiness, hedonic, kahneman, lottery, madmen, pleasure, treadmill
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The Sweet Side of Nobel Prizes
What is the best predictor of a country’s ability to produce Nobel winners? Chocolate. Wait, what? Yes, a study is promoting the idea that countries that consume more chocolate produce more Nobel laureates. It’s been published on a scientific journal by a … Continue reading
Posted in effects, food, psychology, science
Tagged cassina, chocolate, coefficient, economy, nobel, pearson, predictors, recession, statistics, sweden, switzerland, underwear, weather
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Heisenberg’s Television Principle
The Associated Press reported today that a new type of methamphetamine from Mexico is flooding the US. It is said to be “of the purest quality” and coming from “high-tech labs”. Furthermore, it has “a clearer, glassier appearance, usually with a clear … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, breakingbad, doomsday, drugs, exposure, heisenberg, hoarding, influence, meth, nemo, pregnancy, preppers, sociopathy, teens, tv
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The Fairy Tale Effect
Have you ever heard of the Goldilocks Principle? It’s named after the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears, in which the porridge is not too hot, not too cold, but just right. It’s become an ideology for something that … Continue reading
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Tagged alice, bipolar, carroll, dodo, ocd, oz, schizophrenia, wonderland
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Don’t Quote Me on This
Play it again, Sam. Elementary, my dear Watson. Houston, we have a problem. Beam me up, Scotty! It’s rather easy. You know exactly where all those famous lines come from. Of course, they’re from Casablanca, Sherlock Holmes (pretty much any … Continue reading
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Tagged bugsbunny, casablanca, gravity, memory, misquotations, scotty, watson
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