lesenswertes. unregelmäßige empfehlungen von online artikeln.
« Using a foreign language reduces decision-making biases. Four experiments show that the framing effect disappears when choices are presented in a foreign tongue. Whereas people were risk averse for gains and risk seeking for losses when choices were presented in their native tongue, they were not influenced by this framing manipulation in a foreign language. »
« My friend Peter Rojas said something the other day that felt like a punch in the gut. He wrote on twitter “Most people disagree, but I think it’s important to not use services that you have issues with, even if they are free.” Shit. I knew he was right. »
« London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren’s churches and ushered in the Georgian city. London can see the dead, and hugs them close. If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. »
« Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. »
« All men should learn to recognize and shun status-seeking displays of aggression. This is one problem that women generally don’t have to worry about. It is, for instance, very rare for a woman to find herself party to an exchange like this: “What are you looking at, asshole?” - “Who are you calling an asshole?” - “You, bitch. What are you going to do about it?” »
« This article presents further evidence that, for many people, swearing (cursing) provides readily available and effective relief from pain. However, overuse of swearing in everyday situations lessens its effectiveness as a short-term intervention to reduce pain. »
« In one example, the user-following engine may discern whether a user is a younger student or an adult professional. In such an example, the user-following engine may tailor the results so that the professional receives results reflecting a higher comprehension level than the results for the student. Any of a wide variety of differentiations may be made. In a further example, the user-following engine may discern a particular specialty of the user, e.g., the user is a marine biologist or an avid cyclist. In such embodiments, a query from a user related to his or her particular area of specialty may return a more sophisticated set of results than the same query from a user not in that area of specialty. »
« The leader of the Free French forces, Charles de Gaulle, made it clear that he wanted his Frenchmen to lead the liberation of Paris. Allied High Command agreed, but only on one condition: De Gaulle’s division must not contain any black soldiers. »
« Journalismus wird vor allem dann spannend, wenn Ereignisse unvorhersehbar sind. Auch in Zeiten einer rasanten Digitalisierung unserer Gesellschaft kann man sich auf solche Anlässe vorbereiten. Noch immer gilt allerdings in Sachen Onlinejournalismus in vielen Medienhäusern die Devise «erst publizieren, dann verifizieren» – ein Affront gegenüber der jahrelangen Qualitätsdiskussion im Journalismus. In folgender Liste stelle ich Tools vor, mit welchen Journalistinnen und Journalisten auch unter Zeitdruck digitale Inhalte überprüfen können. Die Summe der Teile ergibt ein Bild. »
« The eight “mental patients” scrupulously kept a written record of both their treatment and the things that happened around them in the mental wards. At first they did it furtively, hiding their notes so that the staff wouldn’t find them. But gradually they realized that the staff didn’t care, and never even bothered to ask what they were writing. “One nurse,” writes Perlman, “noticing that a pseudopatient was taking regular notes, saw it as a symptom of a crazy compulsion. ‘Patient engages in writing behavior,’ she wrote portentously on his chart day after day.” »
« Nasa, meanwhile, uses a similar chamber to test its astronauts. They are put in a water-filled tank inside the room to see ‘how long it takes before hallucinations take place and whether they could work through it’. »
« Weil manche Piraten den Begriff des geistigen Eigentums ablehnen, folgern viele, sie würden das Urheberrecht abschaffen wollen. Selbst wenn das tatsächlich so im Parteiprogramm stünde, würde mir als Freund des Urheberrechts eine andere Entwicklung viel größere Sorge bereiten: der massive Legitimationsverlust des Urheberrechts. Überspitzt formuliert: Ich befürchte, die Realität wird das Urheberrecht viel eher abschaffen als die Piraten. »
« Urheberrechtsabschaffungspiraten und Medien-Panik-Journalisten gleichermaßen: Macht eure Hausaufgaben, lernt von der anderen Seite, hört ihr zu und nehmt die Argumente an den richtigen Stellen ernst, damit wir hier mal langsam vorwärts kommen. »
« At this point, we don’t trust America’s TSA, Britain’s Department for Transport, or airport security in general. We don’t believe they’re acting in the best interests of passengers. We suspect their actions are the result of politicians and government appointees making decisions based on their concerns about the security of their own careers if they don’t act tough on terror, and capitulating to public demands that “something must be done”. »
« In lieu of real, scientific testing of Bytox, I decide to try a little experiment of my own. I select 10 colleagues I predict will produce interesting results. At 6:15 that evening, I instruct them to deploy the patches (Grossman has recommended the forearm as an optimal access point). We head to the bar, and bend our limits. »
