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• Conversations on Creativity with Daniel Tammet- Part III, Nature and Nurture

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
    Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 50 autistic savants worldwide. Daniel Tammet is one of them. Over 30 years, the London-born mathematical and language whiz has transformed from an awkward, reclusive boy into a confident adult. His quiet, private life of strict ...
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• Ray Williams - Are We Entering The Age of Empathy?

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  This article is from way back in October, but it still is relevant and it offers some hope for where we are heading as a species. I have just started reading The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness (Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith) which looks at much at empathy as it does at ...
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• Conversations on Creativity with Daniel Tammet - Part II, How an Autistic Savants Mind Works

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 50 autistic savants worldwide. Daniel Tammet is one of them. Over 30 years, the London-born mathematical and language whiz has transformed from an awkward, reclusive boy into a confident adult. His quiet, private life of strict ...
  2 days ago

• Are there atheists in foxholes? – Psychology Today (blog)

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Psychology Today (blog)Are there atheists in foxholes?Psychology Today (blog)The one article was afterlife affirming and the other article argued that near death experiences are not evidence of life after death at all; …and more »read the full article
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• Animals In the News: A brief summary of the fascinating lives of animals and peoples attitudes toward them

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  This will be my last post for 2009 and I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank my readers and those who have sent in comments to Psychology Today and to me personally. I thought that this would be a good time to tell you about some new happenings in my field and lay the groundwork for 2010. As usual animals ...
  3 days ago

• Conversations on Creativity with Daniel Tammet - Part I, Embracing the Wide Sky

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 50 autistic savants worldwide. Daniel Tammet is one of them. Over 30 years, the London-born mathematical and language whiz has transformed from an awkward, reclusive boy into a confident adult. His quiet, private life of strict ...
  4 days ago

• Lunch With Liz

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I’m delighted that Psychology Today has given me a forum to discuss what I consider to be one the most important components of a happy and successful life: the ability to make good decisions.  I’m a math professor, and during the 20th century mathematics went where it hadn’t gone before – it began to ...
  4 days ago

• How To Tell If You’re Boring

  
  Just A Guy Thing — Authority: 476
  It’s amazing how many people have no idea how utterly boring they are. Don’t be one of these people. If you’re boring, at least realize it and try to do something about it. But how, you ask? The folks at Psychology Today have a helpful checklist to know if you are being boring in a social situation. You ...
  5 days ago

• Is Optimism Undermining America?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Optimism has never had a good name, at least among the intellectually elite. We actually know when the word “optimism” entered common parlance — with the publication of Voltaire’s (1759) Candide and the embodiment of foolish optimism in the annoying character Dr. Pangloss. Empirical research over the past ...
  5 days ago

• Ronald Alexander - Four Myths About Mindfulness Meditation

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  Nice article from the Psychology Today blogs . This is a distinctly non-Buddhist approach to mindfulness, more in line with what various forms of psychology are moving toward. Four Myths About Mindfulness Meditation ...
  1 week ago

• The Right to Privacy Versus the Right to Gossip

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 432
  In the age of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Google, I get the feeling that many people on the web don’t believe there is such a thing as a right to privacy anymore. Instead, it has been replaced by the notion that everything is fair to talk about. Whether it takes the form of an angry blog post, a salacious ...
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• Im Not Planning on Dying!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I want to believe that positive thinking, spiritualism and meditation will one day save my life. Lance Armstrong claims positive thinking and sports saved his life. The Dutch Olympic swimming champion and cancer survivor, Mararteen van der Weijden disagrees, “I even think it [the idea of positive thinking] is ...
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• Jay Dixit - The Art of Now: Six Steps to Living in the Moment

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  [ image source ] Good article from Psychology Today , even though its a bit old. We obviously cant live in the NOW every moment of every day, but when we want to, its nice to know how to do it. The Art of Now: Six Steps to Living in the Moment ...
  2 weeks ago

• The first step to reforming America (the final version)

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 132
  Much of the discussion on the FM website concerns how to reform America, putting ourselves back on track – not just for survival, but also prosperity.  The fiercest debate concerns the most important step.  The first step.  This post gives what is the definitive answer.ContentsRecognition that we have a ...
  2 weeks ago

• What do you mean you can’t see the clothes?

  
  Grey Thinking — Authority: 106
  The following quote is from an author named Judith Schwartz, who wrote the book: The Therapist’s New Clothes . Psychology Today wrote a very interesting article on the novel and on being addicted to therapy . “…Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, a tale about con men who promise an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pulp Nonfiction

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Tim Roth has a knack for playing the villain. An English film actor with no formal training, his breakout role was playing a skinhead in Made in Britain . He went on to play an assassin in The Hit , a bloodthirsty nobleman in Rob Roy , and an evil commando in The Incredible Hulk . But Roth is perhaps best known ...
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• Victory in Afghanistan - Calling All Artificial Intelligence Experts

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  At the risk of being what one of my beloved and recently deceased mentors would call overideational (i.e. carry an idea to absurd lengths), I had some thoughts about how to achieve a victory in the war in Afghanistan. But to complete them I will need input from the AI community. Succinctly put, unless and until we ...
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• Hey Big Gender: Why are women being charged more for stuff?

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 137
  If youve ever felt like the cost of being a woman was somehow higher than that of being a man, guess what? You were literally correct! Via Psychology Today : The January 2010 Consumer Reports has an article thats sure to provoke some outrage. "Roam any drugstore and youll see products that seem to be twins, ...
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• Interesting Comparsion

  
  Cosmopolitan Conservative — Authority: 127
  Psychology Today has an interesting comparison: libel charges raised against Sarah Palin compared to Barry Goldwater. I’ve briefly thought about this comparison after a random remark was made in a Mad Men episode about Goldwater. There are strong similarities — popularity with grassroots, going against party ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do animals have spiritual experiences? Yes they do

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  In conjunction with Psychology Today blogger, Steven Kotler , Ive been pondering whether nonhuman animals ("animals") have spiritual experiences and are they religious. Here, Steven and I want to offer some ideas and hope readers will weigh in. As Ive discussed in many of my PT blogs ample evidence shows that ...
  3 weeks ago

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