• Admissions Requirements for Psychology Schools

    Updated: 2024-07-31 23:14:58
    : About Bookstore Contact Podcasts Home About Bookstore Contact Us Podcasts EN Explore 431 Tip Sites Search 120,491 Tips Accounting Degree Accounting Jobs Accounting Software Acting ADD-ADHD Adoption Adventure Travel Affiliate Marketing Air Force Air Quality ALS Alzheimers Anger Management Antiaging Antique Appliance Repair Army Arthritis Art Supplies As Seen On TV Asthma Auction Autism Auto Accessories Auto Loans Auto Parts Auto Transport Baby Baby Gifts Baby Shower Babysitter Baby Travel Bachelor Degree Bachelorette Party Backpain Balance Bankruptcy Barbecue Baseball Basketball Beach Beadwork Bedding Bicycle Bingo Binoculars Birth Control Birthday Blogging Boat Body Jewelry Book Bra Breast Cancer Breastfeeding Bridal Beauty Business Degree Business Intelligence Business Management

  • What about some positive news for a change?

    Updated: 2024-07-15 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , July 15, 2024 What about some positive news for a change Doomsaying can become a self-fulfilling prophesy , as David Brooks points out I want to point to Fix The News a website curated by Angus Hervey and Amy Davoren-Rose , that points out positive stories , and offers to send occasional emails Which I enjoy receiving that list some of its content . nbsp Another positive and totally woke effort at making a more positive future is described in the document New voices for a better society I would also point to previous MindBlog posts on the positive views of Steven Pinker Nicholas Christakis

  • A Journey: Avoiding Ultra-processed Foods

    Updated: 2024-07-13 19:12:45
    Ultra-processed foods are in the news. If you haven’t heard about this yet, ultra-processed foods have ingredients that aren’t usually found by themselves in kitchens, like high fructose corn syrup or emulsifiers. Among the things that are usually classified as ultra-processed are sodas, packaged snacks (chips, cookies, crackers, etc.), packaged […]

  • The emerging world order as a global version of the pre-Westphalian Middle Ages.

    Updated: 2024-07-12 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , July 12, 2024 The emerging world order as a global version of the pre-Westphalian Middle Ages . I would like to pass on this link to an essay by Parag Khanna in Noema Magazine which is one of the best description of the increasing entropy in global geopolitical systems as America's former hegemony contines its rapid decline . A previous MindBlog post has pointed to Zeihan's version of this story . Here are a few clips from the start of the piece that indicate its direction : In global politics , entropy is captured by the term devolution , the transfer or surrender of power toward ever more

  • From nematodes to humans a common brain network motif intertwines hierarch and modularity.

    Updated: 2024-07-10 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , July 10, 2024 From nematodes to humans a common brain network motif intertwines hierarch and modularity . Pathak et . al abstract below suggest the evolved pattern they describe may apply to information processing networks in general , in particular to those of evolving AI . implementations Significance Nervous systems are often schematically represented in terms of hierarchically arranged layers with stimuli in the input” layer sequentially transformed through successive layers , eventually giving rise to response in the output” layer . Empirical investigations of hierarchy in specific

  • Our well being influences our mitochondrial biology.

    Updated: 2024-07-08 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , July 08, 2024 Our well being influences our mitochondrial biology . I pass on the abstract from Trumoff et al open source below . The bottom line is that our experienced well being correlates with with higher levels of energy transformation machinery in our mitochondria . Significance Psychosocial experiences predict health trajectories , but the underlying mechanism remains unclear . We report that positive psychosocial experiences are linked to greater abundance of the mitochondrial energy transformation machinery , whereas negative experiences are linked to lower abundance . Overall ,

  • ChatGPT as a "lab rat" for understanding how our brains process language.

    Updated: 2024-07-05 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , July 05, 2024 ChatGPT as a lab rat for understanding how our brains process language . I've now read twice through a fascinating PNAS piece by Mitchell Waldrop Open source , with useful references and urge MindBlog readers to havve a look . Our brains , as well as all of the GPT Generative Pretrained Transforer engines are prediction machines . The following slilghtly edited extract gives context . computer simulations of language are working in ways that are strikingly similar to the left-hemisphere language regions of our brains , using the same computational principles . The reasons for

  • Cumulative human culture began ~600,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene

    Updated: 2024-07-03 05:00:00
    : , Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , July 03, 2024 Cumulative human culture began 600,000 years ago , during the Middle Pleistocene An interesting study by Paige and Perreault Significance Our species , Homo sapiens , occupies a uniquely diverse set of ecological habitats . Humans expanded into tropical forests and arctic tundra through cumulative culture . Cumulative culture is the accumulation of modifications , innovations , and improvements over generations through social learning . Generations of variant accumulations allow humans to use technologies and know-how well beyond what a single naive individual could invent

  • There are no more human elites of any sort...

    Updated: 2024-07-01 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , July 01, 2024 There are no more human elites of any sort . I want to pass on the conclusion of a great essay by Venkatesh Rao giving the meanings of several acronyms in parentheses . You should read the entire . piece Let me cut to the conclusion : There are no more human elites of any sort . In the sense of natural rulers that is . There are certainly all sorts of privileged and entitled types who want the benefits of being elites , but no humans up to the task of actually being . elite It is only our anthropocentric conceits that lead us to conclude that a complex system like

  • Diet Update: One Year Post Jenny Craig

    Updated: 2024-06-28 22:25:19
    I’m embarrassed to see the one year gap between my last post and now. I’m making a concerted effort to be more diligent going forward. My last post was occasioned by the closing of the bricks and mortar Jenny Craig centers, including the one I had visited for 17 years. […]

  • How AI will transform the physical world.

    Updated: 2024-06-28 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , June 28, 2024 How AI will transform the physical world . I pass on the text of wild-eyed speculations by futurist Ray Kurzweil recently sent to The Economist who since 1990 has been writing on how soon The Singularity” machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence will arrive and transform our physical world in energy , manufacturing and medicine . nbsp I have too many reservation about realistic details of his fantasizing to even begin to list them , but the article is a fun : read By the time children born today are in kindergarten , artificial intelligence AI will probably have

  • Off the rails - inequity and unfairness built into capitalism

    Updated: 2024-06-26 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , June 26, 2024 Off the rails inequity and unfairness built into capitalism I have largely withdrawn from posting items relevant to the details of our current political and social malaise , but I want to pass on a few clips from a piece by Brett Stevens that passes on points made by Ruchir Sharma , the chairman of Rockefeller International and a Financial Times columnist , in his new book What Went Wrong With Capitalism . 8221 Sharma makes a convincing case that hits the nail on the head about what has gotten us where we are : easy money , or ultralow interest . When the price of borrowing

  • The tyranny of words

    Updated: 2024-06-24 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , June 24, 2024 The tyranny of words Some reflections during a wake period at 1:30 a.m . this morning . Mulling on the tyranny of thought as a ruminating mind calms down and refuge is found in a quiet space from which words rise like wisps or vapors , a space free of subjects and objects in which there can be no hurry . nbsp Grateful to be experiencing an aging process that enables a dedifferentiating 82 year old brain to experience a return towards its youth , letting go of the clouds of senolytic discourse that have come to clutter it and increasingly experience being the calm and quiet space

  • The other shoe is about to drop in 2024 - important closure moments in the state of the world.

    Updated: 2024-06-21 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , June 21, 2024 The other shoe is about to drop in 2024 important closure moments in the state of the world . I want to pass on a clip to which I have added some definitions in parentheses from Venkatest Rao’s most recent Ribbonfarm Studio installment in which he argues that the other shoe is about to drop for many narratives in 2024, a year that feels much more exciting than 1984, 1994, 2004, or 2014. With the Trump Biden election , the other shoe is about to drop on the arc that began with the Great Weirding radical global transformations that unfolded between 2016 and 2020 This arc has

  • Managing the human herd

    Updated: 2024-06-19 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , June 19, 2024 Managing the human herd This post is a dyspeptic random walk through thoughts triggered by the front page photograph of the Wall Street journal of June 17, 2024, showing Masses of pilgrims embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia under the soaring summer heat . Such enormous mobs of people are those most easily roused to strong emotions by charismatic speakers . How are the emotions and behaviors of such enormous clans of humans be regulated in a sane and humane way Can this be accomplished outside of authoritarian or oligarchical governance Might such

  • Empty innovation: What are we even doing?

    Updated: 2024-06-17 05:00:00
    : : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , June 17, 2024 Empty innovation : What are we even doing I came across an interesting commentary by Tante on innovation , invention , and progress or the lack thereof in the constant churning , and rise and fall , of new ideas and products in the absence of questions like Why are we doing this and Who is profiting In spite of the speaker's arrogance and annoying style , I think it is worth a viewing . Posted by Deric Bownds at 12:00 AM Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Blog Categories : AI crypto future futures technology No : comments Post a Comment

  • The future of life.

    Updated: 2024-06-14 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , June 14, 2024 The future of life . I want to pass on this science magazine review of Jamie Metzl's new book Superconvergence : How the Genetics , Biotech , and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives , Work , and World Metzel is founder of the One Shared World organization . Check out its website here On the night of 4 July 1776, the Irish immigrant and official printer to the Continental Congress John Dunlap entered his Philadelphia print-shop and began to typeset the first printed version of a document that was to become the enduring North Star of the American experiment . 8221 It

  • The pathologies of the educated elites

    Updated: 2024-06-12 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , June 12, 2024 The pathologies of the educated elites Another really nice opinion piece from David Brooks who notes the consequences , as we have moved from the industrial age to the information age , of progressive energy moving from the working class to the universities , especially the elite universities . I’ve looked on with a kind of dismay as elite university dynamics have spread across national life and politics , making America worse in all sorts of ways . Let me try to be more specific about these . dynamics The first is false consciousness . To be progressive is to be against

  • Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI

    Updated: 2024-06-10 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , June 10, 2024 Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI I want to pass on the full text of an editorial by Blau et al in PNAS the link points to the more complete open source online version containing acknowledgements and : references Revolutionary advances in AI have brought us to a transformative moment for science . AI is accelerating scientific discoveries and analyses . At the same time , its tools and processes challenge core norms and values in the conduct of science , including accountability , transparency , replicability , and human responsibility 1 3 These

  • Is it a fact? The epistemic force of language in news headlines.

    Updated: 2024-06-07 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , June 07, 2024 Is it a fact The epistemic force of language in news headlines . From Chuey et al . in PNAS open source Significance Headlines are an influential source of information , especially because people often do not read beyond them . We investigated how subtle differences in epistemic language in headlines e.g . believe” vs . know“ affect readers’ inferences about whether claims are perceived as matters of fact or mere opinion . We found , for example , saying Scientists believe methane emissions soared to a record in 2021” led readers to view methane levels as more a matter of

  • Impact of our built environment on our microbiome and health

    Updated: 2024-06-05 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , June 05, 2024 Impact of our built environment on our microbiome and health Bosch et . al do a perspective in PNAS open source pointing out that : contemporary built environments are steadily reducing the microbial diversity essential for human health , well-being , and resilience while accelerating the symptoms of human chronic diseases including environmental allergies , and other more life-altering diseases . Here is their abstract : There is increasing evidence that interactions between microbes and their hosts not only play a role in determining health and disease but also in emotions

  • Office Clip for Interpersonal Communications

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:05:37

  • Communicate with Confidence

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:05:37

  • The Office - Conflict Clip

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:05:37

  • My Essay is at the bottom of this page

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:05:35
    For some reason I can't post the essay to the top.

Current Feed Items | Previous Months Items

Jun 2024 | May 2024 | Apr 2024 | Mar 2024 | Feb 2024 | Jan 2024