02 MAR 2019 by ideonexus
Consider the Longevity of the Knowledge You Consume
While most of us focus on consuming information that we won’t care about next month, let alone next year, Buffett focused on knowledge and companies that change very, very slowly or not at all. And because the information he was learning changed slowly he could compound his knowledge over time. And as Schroeder notes, Buffett has been in business for a long time, giving him incredible opportunities to create a cumulative base of knowledge.
Expiring information is sexy but it’s not knowle...Folksonomies: mind hacks
Folksonomies: mind hacks
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notes08 JAN 2018 by ideonexus
Negative Attention is Better Than No Attention at All
To give and receive attention is a fundamental human need. In the 13th century, King Frederick II of Sicily wanted to find out what language children would naturally grow up to speak if they were never spoken to. He took babies from their mothers at birth and placed them in the care of nurses who were strictly forbidden to either speak to or touch them. The babies, as it turned out, didn’t grow up to speak any language, as they all died of attention deprivation within a fortnight of the sta... 1 notes
notes06 JAN 2018 by ideonexus
Characteristics of Worldplay
Worldplay appeared to be a solitary, or perhaps intimately shared, pastime. Over the years nearly everyone in my extended family heard or saw something of Kar, yet immersion in that make-believe remained a solo pursuit for Meredith. Thomas Malkin, Hartley Coleridge, Barbara FoUett, and Stanislaw Lem also played alone. Friedrich Nietzsche played in the imaginary world of King Squirrel with his sister; C. S. Lewis played in Boxen with his brother.
Worldplay looked to be constructive, that is ... 1 notes
notes09 JUN 2015 by ideonexus
Raising Caring Children
1. Children and youth need ongoing opportunities to practice caring and helpfulness,
sometimes with guidance from adults. Children are not simply born good or bad
and we should never give up on them. A good person is something one can always
become; throughout life we can develop our capacities for caring and fairness as
well as many other social, emotional, and ethical capacities. Learning to be caring
and to lead an ethical life is like learning to play an instrument or hone a craft.
Daily ...Folksonomies: parenting
Folksonomies: parenting
1 05 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Lenses Supplement the Infirmities of the Senses
The next care to be taken, in respect of the Senses, is a supplying of their infirmities with Instruments, and, as it were, the adding of artificial Organs to the natural; this in one of them has been of late years accomplisht with prodigious benefit to all sorts of useful knowledge, by the invention of Optical Glasses. By the means of Telescopes, there is nothing so far distant but may be represented to our view; and by the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inq...Folksonomies: perception senses
Folksonomies: perception senses
Telescopes and Microscopes allow us to see what our eyes cannot.
30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus
Political, Social, and Scientific Values Should be Mathem...
[P]olitical and social and scientific values … should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person ... could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its... 1 notes
notesHenry Brooks Adams argues there should be some mathematical formula to describe social and political forces.
27 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Why the Brain Takes So Much Time and Effort
The brain’s chief job description—yours, mine, and your hopelessly adorable children’s—is to help our bodies survive another day. The reason for survival is as old as Darwin and as young as sexting: so we can project our genes into the next generation. Will a human willingly overcome self-interest to ensure the survival of his or her family’s genes into the next generation? Apparently, yes. Enough of us did hundreds of thousands of years ago that we grew up to take over the Seren...Babies must be born before they are ready to prevent killing the mother, thus parenting became an evolutionary strategy in humans.
25 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
If You Wish To Contradict Bacon's Assertions, Please Use ...
I have on my own part made it my care and study that the things which I shall propound should not only be true, but should also be presented to men's minds, how strangely soever preoccupied and obstructed, in a manner not harsh or unpleasant. It is but reasonable, however (especially in so great a restoration of learning and knowledge), that I should claim of men one favor in return, which is this: if anyone would form an opinion or judgment either out of his own observation, or out of the cr... 1 notes
notesUse experiments, use tests, and observance of nature to formulate your arguments.
02 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Royal Society's Code of Ethics
The proposed code
Rigour, honesty and integrity
· act with skill and care in all scientific work. Maintain up-to-date skills and assist their development in others
·· take steps to prevent corrupt practices and professional misconduct. Declare conflicts of interest
· be alert to the ways in which research derives from and affects the work of other people, and respect the rights and reputations of others.
Respect for life, the law and the public good
· ensure that your work is lawf...Focuses on the effects of research, enlightening the public, and keeping skills up to date.
29 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Pets as a Meme
Pets have all the qualities necessary to be a virus of the mind:
- Pets penetrate our minds by attracting our attention. The quality they have that gets them attention is something like "cuteness" or "adorability."
- Pets actually program us to take care of them in several ways. The animals themselves take advantage of the instincts we have to care for our young. The pet industry, part of the pet virus, programs us through television and advertising to spend more and more money on expensive... 1 notes
notesPets have all the characteristics of an infectious meme.
