Emptying the Bottle: Late-May '11 Links

Here is a list of the worthwhile sites I've Bookmarked recently:

• Republican professors are more comfortable with grade inequality (earlier).
• Being in charge makes us less empathetic (earlier).
• Honesty is bravery [graphic].
• The costs and benefits of logic [graphic].
• The point of owning of pet (by my request).
• Sorting email into folders doesn't help.
• Eating breakfast can help you lose weight (earlier).
• Exercise, multi-tasking, sleep, stress' affect on the brain.
• Boys who lack empathy don't react to a fearful face (earlier).
• Cable network news tickers decrease comprehension.
• Let the dead pay for Medicare.

As always, feel free to email me anything interesting you come across.

Motivation as Intellegence

There are clearly different kinds of smart, but I may have missed the most obvious type, motivation. Here are two experiments using IQ tests. In the first they discovered that financial rewards (only $1-10) elicited on average 10 points on the IQ scale of 100. In the second experiment they showed that researchers could predict future success just by measuring how often students looked unmotivated (yawning, heads on the table, or looking around). The researchers suggest that motivation could account for 84% of the differences between years of schooling or ability to find a job. So, "IQ tests are measuring much more than just raw intelligence--they also measure how badly subjects want to succeed both on the test and later in life". Yet another reason to teach patience and motivation in schools.

Worthwhile Sentences on Feedback

From Hugh Hollowell: "Everyone always loves you when you don't tell them the truth."

From Hans Rosling: "My basic idea is that the world has changed so much, what people need isn't more data but a new mindset."

From Laura Morrison: "first, be self-aware enough to understand when your motives aren't genuine or when they're manipulative, and second, rather than manipulate people to get what you want, why not instead live honestly and directly communicate to others what you want from them?"

From Jonah Lehrer on good ADHD: "When we don't know where to look, we need to look everywhere."

From Magician Franz Harary: "If you can understand how people think, then, for a brief moment, you can control what they see."

Emptying the Bottle: Late-March '11 Links

Here is a list of the worthwhile sites I've Bookmarked recently:

• Clumping history together: The Beatles in the year 3000 [video].
• The correlation of big government and immigration limits.
• "Life's too short to do the wrong job" [ads].
• Will the Japanese disaster help Japan reorganize (earlier).
• Why economists aren't very convincing [cartoon].
• Despite obesity, life expectancy is still rising (earlier).
• Diet may help ADHD kids more than drugs (thanks Cheryl).
• From the Diplomat blog: Exposé: James Scott Farrin Commercials.
• Lack of sleep makes you less ethical (earlier and earlierer).
• Is the phone call dying? If so, I feel old.
• Citizens in Switzerland are given a gun for national defense.

As always, feel free to email me anything interesting you come across.

Emptying the Bottle: Mid-February '11 Links

Here is a list of the worthwhile sites I've Bookmarked recently:

• Mubarak has a 30% chance (earlier) of leaving by April (earlier and earlierer).
• Every NBA slam dunk contest visualization (via Justin Wehr) [videos].
• Prison makes you more likely to commit crimes after release (earlier).
• New spray-on skin gun heals burns in days [video].
• "Hans Rosling (earlier) but for fatties!" [graphic] (quote from Justin Wehr).
• Discussion on whether we should drug test those on public aid [video].
• The six stages of Libertarian denial.
• The average person is rated attractive [graphic].
• TED talks set to a beat [audio] (earlier).
• ADHD may actually make people more creative (earlier).
• Meetifyr.com helps groups find the best time to meet up.
• A clock powered by dead flies it caught [video] (another from Justin Wehr).
• We have a bias against/for attractive people of a similar/opposite sex.
• Why China should worry about the protests in Egypt.

As always, feel free to email me anything interesting you come across.

Emptying the Bottle: Late-August '10 Links

Here is a list of the worthwhile sites I've Bookmarked recently:

• Near Johannesburg children are rented out to beggars.
• Wondering how reliable ADHD diagnosis is (earlier).
• The problem of space junk [graphic].
• Ten vices' that are good for you.
• Jon Stewart on the mosque near Ground Zero [video] (related).
• Apparently person-to-person car sharing is getting popular (local).
• Thoughtful conservative's look at mosque controversy.
• Now that China's economy is #2, here's a look at when it becomes #1 (earlier).
• LOST delivers one more episode.
• From me: The Snooki Snooker from the Mister Diplomat blog.
• Zombie Ants! (earlier and earlier-er)
• Cheap military deterrence [photo].

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Emptying the Bottle: Late-July '10 Links

Here is a list of the worthwhile sites I've Bookmarked recently:

• Apple's control issues could hurt it in the long run, again.
• 151 positive traits of ADHD (earlier).
• Social benefit of the Sabbath (this is important).
• Ten ways movies get you into a fantasy world.
• Man chases disc golfers with a chainsaw at my alma mater.
• Watch this video of a Hallmark card, then watch the NAACP's reaction.
• Relationship between loving ourselves and loving others [graph].
• Number of birds killed by BP compared to cars, cats, and wind farms.
• When your opinion is not respected, focus on asking good questions.
• Feeling okay about being a consumer Christian, at least for now.
• Review of modern recession economics (highly recommended).

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