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Fabian Aguilar

The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and tex... - 0 views

  • Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves.
  • "My boyfriend has threatened to break up with me if I keep whipping out my iPhone to look up random facts about celebrities when we're out to dinner."
  • In 1954, psychologist James Olds and his team were working in a laboratory at McGill University, studying how rats learned.
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  • He eventually discovered that if the probe was put in the brain's lateral hypothalamus and the rats were allowed to press a lever and stimulate their own electrodes, they would press until they collapsed.
  • For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs.
  • when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections, about divining meaning, it is the seeking circuits that are firing.
Fabian Aguilar

Checking e-mail before your morning coffee? You're not alone - Ars Technica - 0 views

  • Hyperconnectivity is spreading beyond workers who are tethered to smartphones all day and night—families now wake up and get online first thing in the morning. Is yours one of them?
  • The New York Times recently highlighted the dramatic change in many families' mornings, noting that kids are hopping on Facebook while Mom and Dad are checking up on e-mail and Twitter the minute they wake up. 
  • Most firms that analyze Web traffic note that things slow down overnight but spike pretty high first thing in the morning—especially for websites that are consumer or socially oriented. Text messages in the morning are even up—according to Verizon, texts sent between 7 am and 10 am rose 50 percent year-over-year.
Fabian Aguilar

A Plea for More Critical Thinking in Design, Please | Design This Day | Fast Company - 0 views

  • critical thinking is extremely important
  • Critical thinking is the catalyst for change.
  • We need to consider this critical thinking deficiency as a serious problem, one that deserves a solution.
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