Dee Gill wrote an article for UCLA Anderson Review titled Unflattering Facts Don’t Dent Positive Self-Assessments (17 September 2025).
Continue reading “People rate selves better than average, even faced with objective data to the contrary.”The Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism
Jonathan Dunnett wrote an article titled The Secret, Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism.
Continue reading “The Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism”Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?
Alan Levinovitz wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? (September 25, 2024).
Continue reading “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?”The doorway effect
Charles B. Brenner and Jeffrey M. Zacks wrote an article for Scientific American titled Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget (December 13, 2011).
Continue reading “The doorway effect”Birds Aren’t Real: how misinformation spreads
Ian Beacock wrote an article for The New Republic titled Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head (28 May 2024). « Calling itself Birds Aren’t Real, this group of primarily Gen Z truthers… explain that the U.S. government secretly ran a “mass bird genocide” starting in the late 1950s, replacing the real avian population with sophisticated surveillance-drone look-alikes. Bird-watching now goes both ways. »
Continue reading “Birds Aren’t Real: how misinformation spreads”Rebecca Solnit on Walking and Thinking
Maria Popova wrote a book review on Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit.
Continue reading “Rebecca Solnit on Walking and Thinking”The complex ontology
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled The Unspoken Limits of Business Philosophy. Fortunately, the World Is Far Bigger (28 February 2024).
Continue reading “The complex ontology”Mental Health Deinstitutionalization in California
I’ve been curious about what led to the closing of mental hospitals. This post includes excerpts from four articles, including the perspectives of a district attorney and a psychiatrist. State and federal legislation as well as a Supreme Court ruling all factor into the current mess.
Continue reading “Mental Health Deinstitutionalization in California”Better questions to start more substantive discussions
Marcel Schwantes wrote an article for Inc. titled Science Discovered That Banning Small Talk from Your Conversations Makes You Happier.
Continue reading “Better questions to start more substantive discussions”The way in which problems are communicated to us impacts our ability to solve them (visual vs verbal)
Nikola Spadina wrote an article titled Primed to fail: How cognitive biases undermine your creativity (April 20, 2021).
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