Interesting articles thread

[Socionics Is A Cult]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-even-know-it/

[The Exception]

Do all dogs go to heaven? Pope Francis leaves pearly gates open to animals
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/do-all-d...mals-1.2145039

[Socionics Is A Cult]

In most OECD countries, the gap between rich and poor is at its highest level since 30 years. Today, the richest 10 per cent of the population in the OECD area earn 9.5 times the income of the poorest 10 per cent; in the 1980s this ratio stood at 7:1 and has been rising continuously ever since. However, the rise in overall income inequality is not (only) about surging top income shares: often, incomes at the bottom grew much slower during the prosperous years and fell during downturns, putting relative (and in some countries, absolute) income poverty on the radar of policy concerns. This paper explores whether such developments may have an impact on economic performance.

Drawing on harmonised data covering the OECD countries over the past 30 years, the econometric analysis suggests that income inequality has a negative and statistically significant impact on subsequent growth. In particular, what matters most is the gap between low income households and the rest of the population. In contrast, no evidence is found that those with high incomes pulling away from the rest of the population harms growth. The paper also evaluates the "human capital accumulation theory" finding evidence for human capital as a channel through which inequality may affect growth. Analysis based on micro data from the Adult Skills Survey (PIAAC) shows that increased income disparities depress skills development among individuals with poorer parental education background, both in terms of the quantity of education attained (e.g. years of schooling), and in terms of its quality (i.e. skill proficiency). Educational outcomes of individuals from richer backgrounds, however, are not affected by inequality.

It follows that policies to reduce income inequalities should not only be pursued to improve social outcomes but also to sustain long-term growth. Redistribution policies via taxes and transfers are a key tool to ensure the benefits of growth are more broadly distributed and the results suggest they need not be expected to undermine growth. But it is also important to promote equality of opportunity in access to and quality of education. This implies a focus on families with children and youths – as this is when decisions about human capital accumulation are made -- promoting employment for disadvantaged groups through active labour market policies, childcare supports and in-work benefits.

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-...ive-02#page=19

[miss BabyDoll]

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...06452212003983
article about clinical disorders expressing impulsive behaviour and the pivotal contribution made by dopamine/serotonin systems in the aetiology and treatment of behavioural syndromes expressing impulsive symptoms.

[Amber]

http://netaddiction.com/articles/symptoms.pdf

[Amber]

This one needs more public:

http://flavorwire.com/204165/artist-insults

The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History

2. Salvador Dalí on Piet Mondrian:
“Completely idiotic critics have for several years used the name of Piet Mondrian as though he represented the sum mum of all spiritual activity. They quote him in every connection. Piet for architecture, Piet for poetry, Piet for mysticism, Piet for philosophy, Piet’s whites, Piet’s yellows, Piet, Piet, Piet… Well, I Salvador, will tell you this, that Piet with one ‘i’ less would have been nothing but pet, which is the French word for fart.”
19. J. Alden Weir on the French Impressionists:
“I never in my life saw more horrible things. They do not observe drawing nor form but give you an impression of what they call nature. It was worse than the Chamber of Horrors.”

[Park]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6481866.html

[Amber]

https://litreactor.com/columns/the-1...s-in-the-world


http://flavorwire.com/464926/the-famous-artworks-that-inspired-15-films


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...-meets-science

[The Exception]

Australia's oldest man knits tiny sweaters for injured penguins

[Amber]

https://www.colombotelegraph.com/ind...t-young-women/

My initial tendency was to regard this as “gossip,” but then some of the biographies confirmed it as fact, but also hurriedly dismissed it as something that we all apparently should accept as the eccentricities of “great” men! That’s not a logical argument for me and so I began to dig into archives for more information till a complete picture emerged. And that picture upset me. I saw Gandhi as a classic example of a sexual predator — a man who uses his position of power to manipulate and sexually exploit the people he directly controls.

[Amber]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1273504.html

How To Write Love Poems That Don't Suck

I once responded to a girlfriend’s love poem by critiquing its imagery. That relationship didn’t last long. After all, who was I to ignore Oscar Wilde’s bromide, “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling”?
(...)
To talk about this particular challenge, we invited four poets to discuss the art of the love poem, all of them poets who reinvent the subject not as lace and violets but as a shattered display window, “an ache and a kink,” “the black pulse of dominoes,” or “a bird/trapped in the terminal”—anything but what we’ve come to expect.

[Amber]

https://hbr.org/2012/03/a-study-in-leadership-women-do

We’ve all heard the claims, the theories, and the speculation about the ways leadership styles vary between women and men. Our latest survey data puts some hard numbers into the mix.

[Kalinoche buenanoche]

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul...the-new-prozac

[Amber]

http://www.psr.jku.at/PSR2003/12_08Wag.pdf

People in Action and Social Representation:A Comment on Jaan Valsiner’s (2003)“Theory of Enablement”

I agree elsewhere (Wagner, 1997) with Valsiner (2003) on the issue that in social practice individuals rarely believe and act without implicitly or explicitly consulting the available social and cultural wisdom, that is, the shared knowledge and belief systems of the group they belong to. This pool of explicit knowledge, i.e. cultural models, social representations and other cultural tools, delimit a kind of rationality which is defined by the consensus of a respective group. It embraces all collective everyday knowledge about real or imaginary things, which can be the object of social discourse in a social unit.

[Amber]

http://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/a...art-slide-show

Forget Eve Ensler and Naomi Wolf: When it comes to the vagina as a subject, art was there first. We snatch some examples from history to survey the persistence of pussy in art through the ages.

[Amber]

lol

http://www.wsj.com/articles/startups...ons-1422472398


The Technology that Unmasks Your Hidden Emotions

Paul Ekman, perhaps the world’s most famous face reader, fears he has created a monster.

[The Exception]

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/ther...human_culture/

[Amber]

http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/05/...g-century-ads/

[Park]

The Secret Rules of Adjective Order

[Amber]

A photographer took 12 stunning pictures to capture how depression and anxiety can feel

http://www.upworthy.com/a-photograph...f128cb45f2d693

[Contra]

LSD Microdosing:

http://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing

Modafinil (quasi-NZT drug)

http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil

[Contra]

The End of the Future:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...re-peter-thiel

[Amber]

Here Are Some Liquid Ink Nudes For Your Viewing Pleasure

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5622000.html

[Kalinoche buenanoche]

''I am not aware of a single political leader in the U.S., either Democrat or Republican, who would cut health-care spending in order to free up money for biotechnology research — or, more generally, who would make serious cuts to the welfare state in order to free up serious money for major engineering projects.

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— Peter Thiel, the founding CEO of PayPal, is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist''

and patronizeur much





critical cartography

http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=13771

[Park]

Are You “Shoulding On” Other People? Are Others “Shoulding” On You?

Written by a Delta, obviously.

[Socionics Is A Cult]

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog...shortages.html

"Why We Should Harvest Blood From the Dead"

[Socionics Is A Cult]

The Mysterious Forced Entry of the Caliph into the Great Pyramid of Giza

http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancie...id-giza-001812
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancie...y-caliph-part2

(I think the Black Stone of Mecca connection is unlikely, but on the whole, a good article).

[ryoka14]

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150...-theories-map/

[may]

Excerpt from:
A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Spokes...90Vonnegut.pdf

[strrrng]

LSI seems likely

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...d-nr-interview

[The Exception]

The most isolated tribe in the world: http://www.survivalinternational.org...s/mostisolated

[Socionics Is A Cult]

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-...le-of-hatfield

[xerx]

grainy, low quality video possible proof of existence of UFOs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/u...ject-navy.html

[strrrng]

https://mises.org/library/reliving-crash-29-0

The result was the cartelization of banking under federal control, with the government standing ready to bail out banks in trouble, and also ready to inflate money and credit to whatever extent the banks felt was necessary.

Unfortunately, the Fisherites, in their quest for stability, failed to realize that the trend of the free and unhampered market is always toward lower prices as productivity rises and mass markets develop for particular products. Keeping the price level stable in an era of rising productivity, as in the 1920s, requires a massive artificial expansion of money and credit. Focusing only on wholesale prices, Strong and the economists of the 1920s were willing to engender artificial booms in real estate and stocks, as well as malinvestments in capital goods, so long as the wholesale price level remained constant.

[Aylen]

In search for solutions to my ever expanding list of sensitivities to this mortal world, I can now add this.

The light emitted from computer screens and TV's is not steady, but has flicker. This is true for all monitors, of all types. The flicker is usually invisible, at least to the conscious mind. Flicker is invisible when it consists of pulses or waves of light that repeat one after the other so rapidly that they appear to fuse together into steady light. Our flicker fusion frequency (the frequency above which we no longer consciously see flicker) ranges from about 25 to 55 Hz (Hz means times per second). Flicker fusion frequency varies with the person, with the intensity and color of the light, and also depends on where the light falls on the retina. Optic nerve signals proportional to flicker at frequencies far above the conscious flicker fusion frequency do reach our brain from the eye (as shown by EEG and other studies). Any invisibly flickering light that affects the brain is what I call subliminal flicker.


Subliminal flicker from computer and TV screens is at a particular frequency or frequencies. It is analogous to a tone, for example a loud hum or a dial tone, that goes on and on incessantly in your ear and very quickly causes irritation. Subliminal flicker can have effects on the brain and body in a similar manner. A significant percentage of people who have chemical sensitivities are also sensitive to subliminal flicker, sometimes severely so. The symptoms caused by flicker can include any of the following: a feeling of being unable to focus on the screen, disorientation, confusion, attention deficit/brain fog, irritability, headache, migraine, eye or neck pain, dizziness, queasiness, or an uncomfortable feeling down through the chest. An extreme sensitivity to subliminal flicker is probably due to prior neurological damage. <-- [Me: I was dead for awhile among other things. Maybe I came back rearranged and the timing of each new sensitivity is triggered by environmental factors more than anything else.]

http://www.conradbiologic.com/articl...lFlickerI.html

Just have to find ways to circumvent my wiring and keep going. grrr Maybe this article will help someone else having similar issues that doctors have not got around to suggesting yet. His tips were helpful.

Thankfully it comes and goes.

[The Exception]

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/what-...will-do-to-you

Both exciting and scary at the same time. Searching by someone's speech brings alot of exciting possibilities as well as a major invasion of privacy as we know it.

[Socionics Is A Cult]

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...e-at-dismaland

[Socionics Is A Cult]

http://archive.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html

[may]

Sigh. Tarot cards and spells.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/06/how-...rty-game.html#

http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/19/88...t-ban-religion

[Socionics Is A Cult]

https://tinyurl.com/bpns9pq