Interesting Links for 02-09-2018

[andrewducker]

Our seemingly detailed view of the world is more of an ever-changing sketch than a rich portrait—our minds fill in the blanks

(tags: psychology perception vision )

What's it like dating outside of your race?

(tags: race relationships fantasy )

This Tudor London map overlay is marvelous

To make it work, open the link near the top of the article in a desktop browser (didn't work on my phone) and then click on "Layers" and turn on the Tudor one. It only covers a tiny proportion of the map, but changing the transparency back and forth while zoomed out will help you find the right bit. And when you do, it's fascinating!
(tags: maps history )

Stop working long hours, it doesn't get more done, and it's not good for you

(tags: work working_hours )

Religion in Scotland continues to wither away

(tags: religion scotland )

Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time

(tags: procrastination psychology )

Why would you have a therapy dog when you could have a therapy unicorn.

(tags: animals dogs unicorns therapy )

Migrants can make the world more prosperous, but voters need convincing

(tags: immigration economics society )

Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system

(tags: socialnetworking distribution )

Comments

Mastodon

[agoodwinsmith]

So the target of a hate campaign got punted and that's just too bad because moderators are volunteers. Not enticing.

Re: Mastodon

[andrewducker]

It is a worrying problem with all social networks. Allowing on terrible people, not protecting non-terrible people, having problems telling the two apart.

Re: Mastodon

[agoodwinsmith]

Yes. And I did read the article from the next day's list (https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1036304096280621063?s=09) and I think the basic premise that we don't know how to behave in massive groups is true.

It's not just that some people really like being cruel, but that those of us who don't are unable to imagine why that is pleasureful. And we want to deal with the cruel people by using inclusive reasonableness - which they don't understand. There is such a fundamental lack of meshing.

It would be nice if there was a captcha for the Dark Core (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dark-core-of-personality/) (01 Sept 18's links).

Procrastination

[agoodwinsmith]

That was interesting. The physiological differences and that mindfulness can address those differences is exciting.

Points (a) I wonder whether procrastinators are generally more anxious about everything? (b) did they take into account that sometimes procrastination pays off (the project gets changed)?

And, if mindfulness will reduce the size of the amygdala, then some cognitive practices may enlarge it? Very interesting stuff.

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The tips at the end are hilarious: to stop being tall, try to find measuring sticks that change how height is meassured; think short thoughts; only go places where you don't stand near normal-sized[1] people; practice slouching. :)

[1] - deliberate use of "normal" here