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).
Continue reading “The way in which problems are communicated to us impacts our ability to solve them (visual vs verbal)”The introvert’s guide to enjoying a party
Eliza Brooke wrote an article for Vox titled The introvert’s guide to actually enjoying a party (Aug 26, 2022).
« It’s all about managing your social battery. »
Continue reading “The introvert’s guide to enjoying a party”Adam Grant on How to Argue Better
Adam Grant write an article for the Guardian titled ‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better (July 30, 2022).
Continue reading “Adam Grant on How to Argue Better”Dr. Courtney Conley on stress management
Los Angeles radio station KNX aired a segment called Optimism could keep you alive longer on its In Depth program (June 8, 2022). KNX hosts interviewed Dr. Courtney Conley, founder of the Expanding Horizons Counseling and Wellness. The segment starts at [34:42]
