~openculture | Bookmarks (8)
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Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Daniel Kahneman (RIP) Explains the Key Question Every Investor Must Ask, and Why It’s a Fool’s Errand to Pick Stocks
This past week, the influential psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman passed away at age 90. The...
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How to Rewire Your Brain in 6 Weeks: A BBC Reporter Explores How Everyday Life Changes Can Alter Our Brains
If you suspect that your brain isn’t quite suited for modern life, you’re not alone. In...
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David Lynch Explains Why Depression Is the Enemy of Creativity–and Why Meditation Is the Solution
David Lynch has a variety of notions about what it takes to make art, but suffering...
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Sun Ra Plays a Music Therapy Gig at a Psychiatric Hospital & Inspires a Patient to Talk for the First Time in Years
For some time now it has been fashionable to diagnose dead famous people with mental illnesses...
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Why Incompetent People Think They’re Competent: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Explained
When surveyed, eighty to ninety percent of Americans consider themselves possessed of above-average driving skills. Most...
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How Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldinger
In 1966, Paul McCartney famously sang of “all the lonely people,” wondering aloud where they come...
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51 Propaganda Techniques Explained in 11 Minutes: From Cognitive Dissonance to Appeal to Fear
The concept of propaganda has a great deal of power to fascinate. So does the very...
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How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known
Image via Diego Sevilla Ruiz A certain Zen proverb goes something like this: “A five year old...