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Global Language Network - 0 views

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    "In the Global Language Network (GLN) each node represents a language and links connect languages that are likely to be co-spoken. In the example above, languages are connected according to the frequency of book translations. Node sizes represent the number of native and non-native speakers of a language and edge thickness represents the number of translations from one language to another"
Adam Clark

Whitewashing History in Japan - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Right-wing political forces in Japan, encouraged by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, are waging a campaign of intimidation to deny the disgraceful chapter in World War II when the Japanese military forced thousands of women to serve in wartime brothels. Many mainstream Japanese scholars and most non-Japanese researchers have established as historical fact that the program allowed Japanese soldiers to sexually abuse women across the Asian warfront - based on widespread testimony from the "comfort women." Now a political effort to treat these events as wholesale lies concocted by Japan's wartime enemies is gaining traction, with revisionists trying to roll back the government's 1993 apology for the coercion of women into prostitution. The Abe government, intent on stoking nationalistic fervor, was rebuffed earlier this year in its effort to have revisions made to a 1996 United Nations human rights report on the women Japan forced into sex slavery. But, at home, the right wing continues to hammer away at The Asahi Shimbun newspaper, seizing on the paper's retractions of articles published in the 1980s and 1990s that turned on limited aspects of its coverage to deny the larger historical truth of the "comfort women" program."
Adam Clark

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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    "Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy - and our own self-awareness."
Adam Clark

Why Our Memory Fails Us - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "This is a powerful example of how our biases can blind us. But not in the way Dr. Tyson thought. Mr. Bush wasn't blinded by religious bigotry. Instead, Dr. Tyson was fooled by his faith in the accuracy of his own memory."
Adam Clark

5-Year-Old With Autism Paints Stunning Masterpieces | Bored Panda - 0 views

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    "Autism is a poorly-understood neurological disorder that can impair an individual's ability to engage in various social interactions. But little 5-year-old Iris Grace in the UK is an excellent example of the unexpected gifts that autism can also grant - her exceptional focus and attention to detail have helped her create incredibly beautiful paintings that many of her fans (and buyers) have likened to Monet's works. Little Iris is slowly learning to speak, whereas most children have already begun to speak at least a few words by age 2. Along with speech therapy, her parents gradually introduced her to painting, which is when they discovered her amazing talent."
Adam Clark

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds | The New Yorker - 0 views

  • reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.
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      Sums up one of the main points of the article right here.
  • Once formed,” the researchers observed dryly, “impressions are remarkably perseverant.”
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      Impressions or beliefs remain even in the face of compelling evidence to the contrary. Sounds like confirmation bias to me.
  • Even after the evidence “for their beliefs has been totally refuted, people fail to make appropriate revisions in those beliefs,”
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  • reason is an evolved trait
  • Reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems or even to help us draw conclusions from unfamiliar data; rather, it developed to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.
  • If reason is designed to generate sound judgments, then it’s hard to conceive of a more serious design flaw than confirmation bias.
  • The fact that both we and it survive, Mercier and Sperber argue, proves that it must have some adaptive function, and that function, they maintain, is related to our “hypersociability.”
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      Here the counter-argument couched in evolutionary psych about its adaptive function - hypersociability.
  • Humans, they point out, aren’t randomly credulous. Presented with someone else’s argument, we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own.
  • reflects the task that reason evolved to perform, which is to prevent us from getting screwed by the other members of our group.
  • “This is one of many cases in which the environment changed too quickly for natural selection to catch up.
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      Environment changed too quickly for our evolutionary progress to keep up.
  • People believe that they know way more than they actually do. What allows us to persist in this belief is other people.
  • “One implication of the naturalness with which we divide cognitive labor,” they write, is that there’s “no sharp boundary between one person’s ideas and knowledge” and “those of other members” of the group.
  • When it comes to new technologies, incomplete understanding is empowering.
  • it gets us into trouble, according to Sloman and Fernbach, is in the political domain
  • If your position on, say, the Affordable Care Act is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion is also baseless.
  • We’ve been relying on one another’s expertise ever since we figured out how to hunt together,
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      This is the opposite side to doubting our group members, once we trust them, we can be somewhat blind in our trust.
  • This is how a community of knowledge can become dangerous,
  • If we—or our friends or the pundits on CNN—spent less time pontificating and more trying to work through the implications of policy proposals, we’d realize how clueless we are and moderate our views.
  • In a well-run laboratory, there’s no room for myside bia
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      This connects to the "methodology" of the Natural Sciences very clearly.
  • the system
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      aka Area of Knowledge
  • They cite research suggesting that people experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs.
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      The dopamine, however, functions to reward adaptive behaviors so is not the ultimate aim in and of itself.
  • Providing people with accurate information doesn’t seem to help; they simply discount it.
  • emotions may work better, but doing so is obviously antithetical to the goal of promoting sound science
  • figure out how to address the tendencies that lead to false scientific belief.”
  • Steven Sloman, a professor at Brown, and Philip Fernbach, a professor at the
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      This is where the second section begins, arguing that our evolutionary emphasis on social collaboration also operates to short-circuit or undermine the effectiveness of reason as a WOK.
Adam Clark

I Am Not Charlie Hebdo - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let's face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. The administration would have cut financing and shut them down. Public reaction to the attack in Paris has revealed that there are a lot of people who are quick to lionize those who offend the views of Islamist terrorists in France but who are a lot less tolerant toward those who offend their own views at home."
Adam Clark

23 Charming Illustrations Of Untranslatable Words From Other Languages - 0 views

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    "Illustrator Anjana Iyer created these lovely designs for her 100 Days Project. She's accepting commissions, and on the strength of this she must get a lot… "
Adam Clark

15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German | Mental Floss - 1 views

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    "The German language is so perfectly suited for these syndromes, coming down with them in any other language just won't do."
Adam Clark

Je Suis Ahmed | - 1 views

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    "I posted about the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo on Facebook and offered my condolences to the victims and their families. I spent the next 24 hours moderating comments, at first arguing with people who were quoting the Qur'an, then wholesale deleting comments and banning users. Most of them were trolling the trending topic and commenting on my page for the first time. There seems to be a small army of hate-filled anti-Islam racists ready and eager to turn this tragedy into their personal platform for why all Muslims should be (take your pick): shipped back home, eradicated, banned from immigrating or stripped of their religion. "
Adam Clark

BBC News - Charlie Hebdo attack: Three days of terror - 0 views

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    "France is emerging from one of its worst security crises in decades after three days of attacks by gunmen brought bloodshed to the capital Paris and its surrounding areas. It began with a massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday 7 January and ended with a huge police operation and two sieges two days later. Here is what we know about how events unfolded"
Adam Clark

Mehdi Hasan - Islam Is A Peaceful Religion Debate In Oxford University - YouTube - 0 views

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