31 OCT 2018 by ideonexus
Work-Related Prospection to Code Switch Between Work and ...
...people who engage in “work-related prospection”– that is, thinking and planning about the day and week ahead and the steps you need to take to achieve your career goals – tend to weather the stresses of the journey better than people whose minds wander aimlessly. This translated to greater job satisfaction throughout the day.
Jachimowicz suspects that these benefits come from the fact that it eases the conflict we feel between our roles at home and our roles at work. After all, yo... 1 
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notes15 MAR 2017 by ideonexus
Forage on the Enemy
作戰: 故不盡知用兵之害者，則不能盡知用兵之利也。善用兵者，役不再籍，糧不三載，取用于國，因糧于敵，故軍食可足也。國之貧于師者遠輸，遠輸則百姓貧，近于師者貴賣，貴賣則百姓財竭，財竭則急于丘役，力屈財殫，中原內虛于家，百姓之費，十去其七，公家之費，破車罷馬，甲冑矢弩，戟楯蔽櫓，丘牛大車，十去其六。
Waging War: It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted... 1 notes
notes09 AUG 2014 by ideonexus
Two Kinds of Societal Collapse
Running the model in dierent scenarios produces two kinds of collapses, either due to scarcity
of labor (following an inequality-induced famine) or due to scarcity of Nature (depletion of natural
resources). We categorize the former case as a Type-L (Disappearance of Labor) Collapse and
the latter as a Type-N collapse (Exhaustion of Nature). In a Type-L collapse, growth of the
Elite Population strains availability of resources for the Commoners. This causes decline of the
Commoner Population ... 1 notes
notes30 JUL 2013 by ideonexus
Why Marriage is Not Like Prostitution
What's more, most males could not possibly afford to buy a
woman's reproductive potential if courtship were a simple economic exchange. What would be an appropriate market price for a nine-month pregnancy, the pain of childbirth, the exhaustion of breast-feeding, and twenty years of maternal care? At least half a million dollars at a basic salary of $25,000, one would think. How much do men spend on courtship in the first few months? Perhaps a tenth of 1 percent of the proper market price. Th... 1 notes
notesNo amount of gifts and showy displays can pay for the investment a female would have to make in offspring.
06 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
There's No Such Thing as a "One-Handed Scientist"
The rub, of course, is that everybody else thinks that science should provide the answers. Remember the Concorde? Back in the early 1970s, Congress was debating supersonic transport, trying to decide whether such aircraft would represent a danger when flown over the United States. Would their big engines flying high in the sky cut a hole in the ozone and let in solar radiation? Would the plane make sonic booms as it flew over people’s neighborhoods? And so on.
Senator Edmund Muskie (D-ME) ... 1 notes
notesScientists must consider all the evidence and factor nuance into their positions. This is illustrated with an interesting historical anecdote about a Congressional review concerning the safety of the Concord jet.
30 APR 2012 by ideonexus
Research, Like Learning, Requires Practice
People who are unused to learning, learn little, and that slowly, while those more accustomed do much more and do it more easily. The same thing also happens in connection with research. Those who are altogether unfamiliar with this become blinded and bewildered as soon as their minds begin to work: they readily withdraw from the inquiry, in a state of mental fatigue and exhaustion, much like people who attempt to race without having been trained. He, on the other hand, who is accustomed to r... 1 notes
notesQuote from Erasistratus, Greek Physician.
03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Society Never Escaped the Blandness of Generation X
At the time that the web was born, in the early 1990s, a popular trope was that a new generation of teenagers, reared in the conservative Reagan years, had turned out exceptionally bland. The members of “Generation X” were characterized as blank and inert. The anthropologist Steve Barnett compared them to pattern exhaustion, a phenomena in which a culture runs out of variations of traditional designs in their pottery and becomes less creative.
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Here is a claim I wish I weren’t ma... 1 notes
notesGenX was defined as not having a distinctive culture, but only rehashed previous cultures, but listening to music today, there is nothing new and distinctive. Our society has remained bland.
06 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
The Romantic View of Birth
You're lying in bed in the labor room of the hospital and you're about as exhausted, as utterly worn out, as you'll ever be. Giving birth is this peculiar combination of determination and compulsion. It's you pushing, and you push in a more concentrated, focused way than you've ever done anything, but in another sense you don't decide or try to push or even want to. You are just swept away by the action. It's like a cross between running a marathon and having the most enormous. shattering, ir... 1 notes
notesA beautiful description of the idealized version of labor and bonding with the newborn.
