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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Television and aggressive children
decades we have known of the connection between hostile peer interactions and the amount of kids’ exposure to television. The linkage used to be controversial (maybe aggressive people watch more TV than others?), but we now see that it’s an issue of our deferred-imitation…
Rage Against The Machine - Township Rebellion Lyrics | Songmeanings
Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross
"Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross When ignorance reigns, life is lost" Religious fanatics prey on the minds of those who are lost or weak. These people get brainwashed by their religion and can't see faults in what they've been taught to believe. They turn…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Identity as coordinates on a map of relationships
Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city. I’d lost Prabaker and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them I’d lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates…
India and the doctrine of necessity
At first, on that first journey out of the city into India, I found such sudden politeness infuriating after the violent scramble to board the train. It seemed hypocritical for them to show such deferential concern over a nudge with a foot when, minutes before, they’d all but…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Toynbee's two proletariats
In his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon declared famously that Rome was destroyed by Christianity and the barbarians; and Toynbee’s analysis could be seen as an extended commentary on the thesis. For him, as for Gibbon, the untold millions of people enslaved by the…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Milgram's obedience experiments
More worryingly, our willingness to cause terrible harms also seems to be highly situation-dependent. Two classic studies stand out. In his notorious ‘obedience experiments’, Stanley Milgram asked subjects to deliver increasing levels of electric shock to someone in an…
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The other infamous case is the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which Philip Zimbardo and his team simulated conditions in a prison with student volunteers taking on the roles of prisoners and guards. The two-week experiment was abandoned after six days, because the guards had…