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The Top 5 Regrets In Life By Those About to Die | Addicted 2 Success - 3 views

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life seize the day regrets work hard live

shared by lindsey caldwell on 01 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • lindsey caldwell on 01 Mar 12
     
    So interesting!! Really, really inspirational. We can learn a lot from this! The Top 5 Regrets In Life By Those About to Die written by a caregiver
Kathi Berens

The Myth of the Disconnected Life - Jason Farman - Technology - The Atlantic - 1 views

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Jason_Farman mobile disconnection disconnect The_Atlantic

shared by Kathi Berens on 08 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Kathi Berens on 08 Feb 12
     
    using "disconnection" as a reason to disconnect thoroughly simplifies the complex ways we use our devices while simultaneously fetishizing certain ways of gaining depth.
Kathi Berens

The Curious Case of Internet Privacy - Technology Review - 0 views

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shared by Kathi Berens on 25 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Actually, the text above is not exactly analogous to the terms on which we bargain with every mouse click. To really polish the analogy, I'd have to ask this magazine to hide that text in the margin of one of the back pages. And I'd have to end it with This agreement is subject to change at any time. What we agree to participate in on the Internet isn't a negotiated trade; it's a smorgasbord, and intimate facts of your life (your location, your interests, your friends) are the buffet.
  • By reading this agreement, you give Technology Review and its partners the unlimited right to intercept and examine your reading choices from this day forward, to sell the insights gleaned thereby, and to retain that information in perpetuity and supply it without limitation to any third party.
  • Facebook then responds to the inevitable public outcry by restoring something that's like the old system, except slightly less private.
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  • pricing out the net present value of a decision whose consequences are far in the future.
  • No one would take up smoking if the tumors sprouted with the first puff.
  • "intermittent reinforcement."
  • Give a lab rat a lever that produces a food pellet on demand and he'll only press it when he's hungry. Give him a lever that produces food pellets at random intervals, and he'll keep pressing it forever.
  • Lawrence Lessig pointed out in his book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, there are four possible mechanisms:
  • norms, law, code, and markets.
  • If there's one thing the last 15 years of Internet policy fights have taught us, it's that nothing is ever solved by ascribing propertylike rights to easily copied information.
  • Right now, there are two ways to browse the Web: turn cookies off altogether and live with the fact that many sites won't work; or turn on all cookies and accept the wholesale extraction of your Internet use habits.
  • There's a business opportunity for a company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire
  • Behavioral scientists have a name for this dynamic: “intermittent reinforcement.” It’s one of the most powerful behavioral training techniques we know about. Give a lab rat a lever that produces a food pellet on demand and he’ll only press it when he’s hungry. Give him a lever that produces food pellets at random intervals, and he’ll keep pressing it forever.
  • But the truth is that dialing down Internet tracking won’t be the end of advertising. Ultimately, it could be a welcome change for those in the analytics and advertising business. Once the privacy bargain takes place without coercion, good companies will be able to build services that get more data from their users than bad companies. Right now, it seems as if everyone gets to slurp data out of your computer, regardless of whether the service is superior.
  • What if mobile OSes were designed to let their users instruct them to lie to apps? “Whenever the Connect the Dots app wants to know where I am, make something up. When it wants my phone number, give it a random one.”
  • Far from destroying business, letting users control disclosure would create value.
  • There’s a business opportunity for a company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire.
Kathi Berens

Why is walking in the woods so good for you? - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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shared by Kathi Berens on 06 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • One simple hypothesis is colour: Nature scenes tend to feature more green than urban scenes. A more subtle possibility is that natural landscapes have more fractal patterns – a mathematical classification that describes the complex shapes of phenomena like coastlines, mountain ranges and broccoli florets – compared to the simple straight lines that characterize man-made environments.
  • “Maybe looking at these fractal patterns captures attention automatically, which leads to this more restorative process,” Dr. Berman says.
  • Kathi Berens on 06 Sep 12
     
    "Maybe looking at these fractal patterns captures attention automatically, which leads to this more restorative process," Dr. Berman says. Note also the difference in attention.  Teach this alongside Davidson's chapters on attn, and Howard's.
Kathi Berens

Literature for Life connects L.A. authors, artists with classrooms - latimes.com - 0 views

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Literature local LA HS high school pedagogy

shared by Kathi Berens on 13 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Kathi Berens on 13 Jun 12
     
    2 ppl, create a website that tags local LA authors.  Designed for local HS students to find lit, voices, authors, more like them.  Sponsored by USC.
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