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>'Kahneman tried to explain the hedonic treadmill via with his own aspiration treadmill. He claims that he not only failed, but the data were opposite to his hypothesis.' https://w…

The voice might be computer generated, if it is, it's really well done.

>When I was visiting with community college students in Arizona, one young man said to me, “I’m one of the people who’s not good at math.” It kills me when I hear that kind of thin…

>A 2013 paper by two Oxford researchers projected that nearly half of U.S. jobs would be vulnerable to automation within 20 years. Who says "social skills" can't be automated? > Bu…

While I think it would be difficult to abolish forced labor right now, I do believe he makes some very good points. It would be a start if we could get some consensus that forced l…

>(such as Finland, Norway, Sweden etc.) Norway has an unemployment rate of 3.9%... that's lower than the US (much lower if you use U6 as a metric) or UK. In fact, it's one of the l…

3 years later and computers now outperform humans on Imagenet. While we still have a lot of work ahead, it shows how fast things can change in the exponential world of computers.

Seems like it has already been done: In 2002, other head transplants were also conducted in Japan in rats. Unlike the head transplants performed by Dr. White, however, these head t…

On Wikipedia i find 'It is argued that several up to now hopeless medical conditions might benefit from such procedure.[9][15]'. Many people's initial reaction is disgust. Which i …

Don't go West young man. (Advice to Columbus.) I. A Voyage to Asia would require three years. II. The western Ocean is infinite and perhaps unnavigable. III. If he reached the Anti…

The entire point of the "Future and Emerging Technologies" FET Flagship program (where the HBP got it's money) was to fund risky, daring and ambitious technology projects. Here's a…

In other words, the same reductions as a placebo would give.

The fact that we feel sorry for it as it is kicked is a testament to how dog-like it really is. It reacts to falling over like a real dog would.

The link lifebeyondlife submitted is actually quite a good read: Set up to fail: How bosses create their own poor performers http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?…

More information to satisfy the complaints of my critics regarding the date, definitions, forms of meditation, etc: A systematic study on the efficacy of various forms of meditatio…

"start meditating" Research has not shown that meditation beats a placebo Studies about meditation are usually of poor quality. Source: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-ch…

>> Using this process, he discovered some surprising things—most notably that a company’s team is only about 12 percent predictive of a company’s success. “You need to find a good …

According to this article (2014), iOS still has a 32.5% market share in the US. I do admit i'm surprised it's still that high in the US. It's not 50/50, but yes, still a contender …

That's incorrect: As of the end of Q3 2014, Android was the most popular operating system, with a 84.4% market share, followed by iOS with 11.7%

> There was a time a couple of years ago when Android looked like it might gain enough momentum to sweep them away, but it now looks like the iOS market share in developed markets …

How is that even possible when Android has a 84.4% market share?

Western christianity didn't leave all violence behind, see for example anti-abortion violence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#United_S...

I saw a post about it, shortly after it happened, and upvoted it, but it was deleted.

Many factors can be the cause of this: You're not really free to pursue long term projects since you have to be available to work/look for a job. You are also stressed because the …