Na fejsie ciekawa informacja:
Powstanie inspirowany nim [obrazkiem – PG] film. Tytuł roboczy to „Teddy Bear”, a w projekt zaangażowany jest Dwayne Johnson. Agent aktora trafił na tę ilustrację w sieci i podrzucił pomysł swojemu klientowi.
Super, co?
Ciekawe, jaki będzie scenariusz. O tajemniczym świecie misi pełnych walki i poświęcenia? A co, jak ktoś śpi z pluszowym Cthulhu?
Widziałem już dużo generatorów playlist online, ale coś takiego… Jak na razie przetestowałem na sucho poszczególne muzyczne wybory i wydaje się, że powinno to działać. Miłego, ekhem, słuchania. Stereodose czeka.
Now an emotion-sensing smartphone app that automatically generates someone’s „mood diary” could give psychologists all the data they need.
It’s the brainchild of Matt Dobson and Duncan Barclay, founders of speech recognition firm EI Technologies, based in Saffron Walden, UK. Instead of relying on people writing diaries, the app, called Xpression, listens for telltale changes in a person’s voice that indicate whether they are in one of five emotional states: calm, happy, sad, angry or anxious/frightened. It then lists a person’s moods against the times they change, and automatically emails the list to their psychologist at the end of the day.
za pomocą Mood-sensing smartphone tells your shrink how you feel – tech – 21 February 2013 – New Scientist.
The traits — thicker hair shafts, more sweat glands, characteristically identified teeth and smaller breasts — are the result of a gene mutation that occurred about 35,000 years ago, the researchers have concluded.
The discovery explains a crucial juncture in the evolution of East Asians. But the method can also be applied to some 400 other sites on the human genome. The DNA changes at these sites, researchers believe, mark the turning points in recent human evolution as the populations on each continent diverged from one another.
za pomocą Studying Recent Human Evolution at the Genetic Level – NYTimes.com.
An estimated 80 per cent of the global population have bugs in their diet, says Julene Aguirre Bielschowsky of Ento, a company seeking to persuade Westerners to eat more insects. Ento has been working with chefs to create attractive protein alternatives like waxworm caterpillars, which according to Bielschowsky taste like sausages when fresh, and pistachios when dried. Cricket pâté has been a surprising success in recent taste tests, she says.
Most insects are safe to eat and you have probably already tasted a few. The US Food and Drug Administration details the maximum level of “foreign material” – read insects – that can be included in foodstuffs without hazard to your health. Fig paste, for example, can safely contain up to 12 insect heads per 100 grams.
za pomocą Don’t like horse meat? How about insects? You’re already eating insect heads | FUTUREJAM.
Historia walentynek sięga daleko wstecz, aż do czasów starożytnego Rzymu.
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– tu nie chodzi o to, że nie lubię cię jako autora – kontynuował – po prostu nie za bardzo udaje ci się być człowiekiem.
Recenzje filmu o The Pirate Bay to ciekawa lektura. Zwłaszcza na blogach technologicznych. Zaciekawiło mnie na przykład takie sformułowanie, które znalazło się w jednej z nich (w ogóle warto cały tekst przeczytać – dostarcza sporo wrażeń):
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The results were quite disturbing. For one thing, self-awareness was not particularly useful: as the scientists note, “people who were aware of their own biases were not better able to overcome them.” […] “My intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy”—a tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task”
Perhaps our most dangerous bias is that we naturally assume that everyone else is more susceptible to thinking errors, a tendency known as the “bias blind spot.” This “meta-bias” is rooted in our ability to spot systematic mistakes in the decisions of others—we excel at noticing the flaws of friends—and inability to spot those same mistakes in ourselves. […] intelligence seems to make things worse. The scientists gave the students four measures of “cognitive sophistication.” As they report in the paper, all four of the measures showed positive correlations, “indicating that more cognitively sophisticated participants showed larger bias blind spots.” This trend held for many of the specific biases, indicating that smarter people (at least as measured by S.A.T. scores) and those more likely to engage in deliberation were slightly more vulnerable to common mental mistakes.
za pomocą Why Smart People Are Stupid — m.newyorker.com — Readability.
Researchers reviewing data collected from 19,977 married couples in one county in Norway reported that spouses who consume about the same amount of alcohol were less likely to divorce than pairs where one partner is a heavy drinker and the other is not — especially when the wife is the one doing the drinking. […] They found that divorce was generally more common in couples with high rates of alcohol consumption, but that the highest divorce rates were found in couples where only the woman was a heavy drinker.
za pomocą Heavy drinking, ‚incompatible’ drinking tied to divorce, study says – latimes.com.
Z okazji święta skomponowałem.
pączek z dżemem jest
śniegiem polukrowany
ślimak wspina się
Jest 5, 7, 5, jest pora roku i ostatnia linijka od czapy. Czyli wszystko na miejscu. Można się wzruszać.
Jeśli przypomnimy sobie media w najlepszym, amerykańskim wydaniu, ale także naszą historię, to nie była to przecież inteligencka zabawka. Dziennikarz to niekoniecznie jest „inteligencki gęgacz”. Sam znam jeszcze prawdziwych, krwistych reporterów – Reszka, Majewski, Darek Rosiak – których praca wymaga awanturniczego trybu życia, podróży, picia wódki w różnym towarzystwie. Dziennikarstwo to naprawdę nie jest inteligencki zawód zza biurka.
za pomocą Media są biedne i głupie | „Nowy Obywatel” – pismo na rzecz sprawiedliwości społecznej.
Zniekształcenie poznawcze 