Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-21-2010

[andrewducker]

• Psychologists predict video game ability from the size of three structures in your brain.
  (tags: brain psychology neuroscience games gaming)
• Versace launches fashion line inspired by Tron
  (tags: tron scifi fashion)
• On not feeling successful - no matter how successful you actually are.
  Competent people worry that they might not be competent. To a large extent, that constant critical self-appraisal is what makes them competent. In contrast, incompetent people regularly believe they're doing a great job.
  (tags: emotions success competency)
• Believing You Can Get Smarter Makes You Smarter
  Teaching people that intelligence is malleable makes them more likely to improve their ability.
  (tags: psychology intelligence learning iq motivation education mind research)
• Publisher replaces black heroine with white girl on the cover, apologises, then does it _again_.
  (tags: race books)

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

That writer should really have learned by now it'd be easier to write about white chicks.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

> race, books

Oh, fuck sake's not again. Well, let's raise hell about this one too.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

That competence thing has come up in several conversations lately. Thanks for the link that I will now sprinkle liberally around certain friends.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Ursula Le Guin -- I was thinking as I started reading the article of A Wizard of Earthsea -- dark-skinned character, explicitly said so a couple of times in the text, and white characters on the cover.

[andrewducker]

Also, in the TV series.