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Why Your Future Self is an Emotional Mystery: The Projection Bias
via PsyBlog by Jeremy (PsyBlog author) on May 12, 2008
Going to the supermarket when I'm really hungry, and without a shopping list, is a recipe for disaster. It will take an act of iron will to avoid returning without some kind of junk food. Later, after eating, I'll wonder how I could have bought junk food but forgotten healthy staples like rice and pasta.Why should this be? After all, I know very well what sort of food I should buy;...
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Addiction to addiction: the horrifying reality
via Mind Hacks by vaughan on May 10, 2008
Cracked has an amusing article satirising the increasing tendency to portray any repetitive behaviour as an 'addiction'. It discusses the horrifying reality of six things you didn't know you could get addicted to and helpfully lists the warning signs.The first on the list is the scourge of book addiction. We know that reading can affect mood, interfere with sleep, cause arguments,...
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Jealousy
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
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Does your brain have a mind of its own? - Los Angeles Times
via www.latimes.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Erin Interesting article. Also trying out Note in Reader bookmark.How many times has this happened to you? You leave work, decide that you need to get groceries on the way home, take a cellphone call and forget all about your plan. Next thing you know, you've driven home and forgotten all about the groceries.
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Google Reader Adds Shared Notes, Non-Feed Page Capture [Social Bookmarking]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 06, 2008
Google adds yet another social-ish function, "Notes," to its Reader feed-browsing tool. The practical use comes from a new bookmarklet that posts whatever page you're looking at to your shared Reader items, with your own notes attached. You can also post notes with no link at all to be shared with your "friends," making it a kind of Twitter clone for, well, avid feed readers. As one blogger...
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Investing for an Alien Invasion : A Geek Talks About Money
via agtam.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by David You can never be too prepared for the inevitableA Geek Talks About Money: Economics, Investments, and Money
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CanLII - 2008 CanLII 19764 (ON S.C.)
via www.canlii.org by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by David This is the law quote of the daySome day, a wise person in a position of authority will realize that a court of law is not the best forum for deciding custody and access disputes, where principles of common sense masquerade as principles of law. Implementing the best-interests-of-the-child precept requires objectivity, not a legal education. Although the parties here have...
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On the benefits of thinking about the apocalypse
via Mind Hacks by vaughan on May 06, 2008
A wonderful poem called 'Survivor' from the playful English poet, Roger McGough:Survivorby Roger McGoughEveryday,I think about dying.About disease, starvation,violence, terrorism, war,the end of the world.It helpskeep my mind off things.McGough has a talent for blending the fanciful with the poignant, as demonstrated in a poem we featured previously.
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How to Feel More Pleasure: Crank up the Mystery
via PsyBlog by Jeremy (PsyBlog author) on May 03, 2008
When we get a gift from someone out of the blue, alarm bells start ringing. What do they want? What have they done? There must be a reason for this unexplained act of kindness...We naturally like to try and figure out other people's motivations; using rationality to reduce uncertainty helps us make sense of the world. The problem is that sober and logical reflection seems to kill the pleasure...
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Foux du fa fa
via In a Jar by La Canadienne on April 25, 2008
I have always been very prone to bouts of nostalgia. Every so often I get lost in memory, go back through bits of the brief journals I'd keep now and then, and often, cry. I'm a big sap. Doesn't matter if it's a happy thing or a sad thing, thinking about the past just gets me in a weepy way. For some reason, I tend to think that things won't get better, that the best is...
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