Interesting Links for 12-8-2011

[andrewducker]

• Why sequences of words picked at random make better, memorable passwords
  (tags: passwords technology computers)
• The rich are different - and not in a good way.
  (tags: Money psychology emotion society)
• Research reveals genetic link to human intelligence
  (tags: genetics psychology brain intelligence)
• Using an EEG To find out how computer games really change the way you feel.
  (tags: computer_games psychology brain)
• The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom
  (tags: uk politics riots)
• Misattribution of Arousal - You do not know yourself as well as you think you do.
  (tags: psychology anxiety brain arousal relationships emotions)
• Scientists Trace Heat Wave To Massive Star At Center Of Solar System
  I foresee the plot if next year's disaster movie.
  (tags: Funny onion the_onion science solar astronomy)
• Jeremy Irons on sexual harassment
  (tags: sex harrassment)
• Ticket to Ride for four-year-olds
  (tags: games children trains)
• Nokia N9 will not launch in UK. No Meego for us!
  (tags: nokia linux mobile_phones)

Comments

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

science!

[andrewducker]

Science is awesome!

[sageautumn.livejournal.com]

m1issattributionofarousal is totally going to be my next password.

(That's a joke, it's too long.)

rich; top/bottom

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

It's the middle class that's future oriented with their delayed gratification and all. The lower and upper classes don't give much of a fig about tomorrow, since it's going to be the same anyway.

Re: rich; top/bottom

[andrewducker]

That's a fascinating point. More thought required.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

I heard about the "high bridge effect" decades ago, but never found the citation. thanks!
We have more emotional states than physical/endocrine states, so there's a significant component of mental interpretation.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. When you get down to it it's nearly all interpretation, and if you work at it hard enough you can adjust an awful lot of that interpretation.