Psychology Magazine

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• Avoiding Psychological Biases That Trick Your Brain.

  The monthly Austin Rainbow Forum discussion group which I help organize meets on the first Sunday afternoon of each month, and I thought I would pass on... Read more

  The 02 march 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• Humans Are Animals - Get Over It. Let Go of 'the Purpose and Meaning of It All'

  Philosophy professor Crispin Sartwell does a piece discussing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrels: ... Read more

  The 01 march 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Life Cycle of a New Social Network

  Kevin Roose does an interesting article on Clubhouse, the hot new audio social network, which has a nice chunk of writing I want to pass on: Every successful... Read more

  The 26 february 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• Train Yourself to Be Happy

  

  Walter Scott's series of cartoons in The New Yorker that puts my bloviating on similar topics to shame. Here is just one in his series of Read more

  The 25 february 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• Music and Medicine

  Amy McDermott does an open source article on how music is increasingly being employed as a medical therapy. Here are some clips from the article: ... Read more

  The 24 february 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• Real-time Talking with Dreamers During REM Sleep

  A fascinating new window for reserach on dreaming has been opened by four collaborating but independent laboratory groups. The summary of the open source articl... Read more

  The 23 february 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• An Awesome Way to Decrease Political Polarization

  

  As my wife and I walked from the front doors to the worship center of the exponentially growing church we used to attend in the mid-1990s, we often remarked... Read more

  The 22 february 2021 by   Andrewtix
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• So...whatcha Gonna Offer Me for This Cell Phone I Stole from You?

  Macaque monkeys have learned how to drive a hard bargain.They have learned to barter for food with humans to return stolen possessions according to how highly a... Read more

  The 22 february 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• Why Cats Like Catnip...

  Interesting work from Uenoyama et al.: Domestic cats and other felids rub their faces and heads against catnip (Nepeta cataria) and silver vine (Actinidia... Read more

  The 19 february 2021 by   Deric Bownds
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• To Dust I Shall Return

  “The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.” (Thomas Merton)On this Ash Wednesday – in the middle of a pandemic,... Read more

  The 17 february 2021 by   Andrewtix
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