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Gay Byrne asks Stephen Fry what he would say to God if he met him.
The look on Gay Byrne’s face! Fabulous.
Definition of 'deliberate practice'
From: 'So good they can't ignore you', by Cal Newport
In the early 1990s, Anders Ericsson, a colleague of Neil Charness at Florida State University, coined the term "deliberate practice", [...], defining it formally as an "activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual's performance'
Carrédebat: een eurovisie debat contest
In een mail aan D66-leden vond ik deze passage, over het carré debat vanavond:
De campagne wordt vaak en veel op tv en radio 'uitgevochten', en meer en meer op Twitter en Facebook. Daar kunt u aan meedoen. Help Alexander Pechtold door ook tijdens de debatten mee te praten en vooral door te stemmen op 'het tweede scherm'. Vanavond is het Carrédebat, u kunt tussen 20.30 en 22.00 uur meekijken en meestemmen op www.rtlnieuws.nl en op live.rtl.nl. Rond 22.00 uur wordt er gestemd voor de winnaar van het debat, zorg dat u er dan zeker bent. En praat mee op Twitter met #carredebat.
In andere woorden, leden worden opgeroepen om het debat te beïnvloeden. Het tweede scherm is een interessant concept dat nu veel wordt gebruikt. Waarom zouden stemmers niet direct repliek mogen geven op politici en hen tot de orde roepen tijdens een debat? Maar laten we onszelf niet voor de gek houden: net zoals het nieuwe debatformat waar steeds minder partijen aan mee mogen doen en waar het steeds meer om de paar grootste partijen gaat, zorgen concepten zoals het tweede scherm dat de politiek nóg meer een popularity contest wordt. Een eurovisie song contest maar dan met opzwepende retoriek in plaats van romantische muziek. Het gaat erom wie de actiefste of grootste achterban heeft. Een goed woordje is een pré, maar dit wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door de achterban. Grote partijen hebben zo nog meer invloed.
Ik weet niet of in de statiestieken er correcties worden gedaan aan de hand van de aangegeven politieke kleur van de tv-stemmer. Maar laat dat alsjeblieft zo zijn, anders hebben we weer een klein stapje naar een eurovisie debat contest gezet.
Contrary to the traditional views of the music industry, removal of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions can actually decrease piracy, according to new research from Rice University and Duke University.
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I'm a social psychologist whose interest in these words came about almost accidentally. In the early 1980s, I stumbled on a finding that fascinated me. People who reported having a traumatic experience and who kept the experience a secret had far more health problems than people who talked openly. Why would keeping a secret be so unhealthy? If you asked people to write about their secrets, would their health improve? The answer, I soon discovered, was yes. As part of this work, we developed a computer program to analyse the language people used when they wrote about traumas. We made numerous discoveries using this tool, such as the value of using words associated with positive emotions. However, our most striking discovery was not about the content of people's writing but the style. In particular, we found that the use of pronouns – I, me, we, she, they – mattered enormously. The more people changed from using first-person singular pronouns (I, me, my) to using other pronouns (we, you, she, they) from one piece of writing to the next, the better their health became. Their word use reflected their psychological state.
If your life is a stream of water, that carries you along if you don't swim against the current, then what, in that metaphor, is clutter? Is that water that you put into bottles (because you dare not leave it behind), slowly creating a dam that distorts the river's path and holds you back?
What would a working metaphor be?
I have started posting longer regular postings about politics, society and psychology on a new dutch blog. Hope someone will enjoy it!
Radical Muslims have set cities afire because their feelings were hurt. When a Muslim murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, it was because his feelings were hurt. Ditto the Muslims who rioted about cartoons depicting the image of Muhammad and sent frightened doodlers into hiding. The idea that one should never have one's feelings hurt -- and the violent means to which some will resort in the protection of their own self-regard -- has done harm rivaling evil. It isn't a stretch to say that the greatest threat to free speech is, in fact, "sensitivity." This is why plans for the mosque near Ground Zero should be allowed to proceed, if that's what these Muslims want. We teach tolerance by being tolerant. We can't insist that our freedom of speech allows us to draw cartoons or produce plays that Muslims find offensive and then demand that they be more sensitive to our feelings.
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Of de PVV nu in de regering komt of alleen gedoogsteun geeft, een rechts kabinet is niet mijn kabinet. Begin jaren zeventig vormden oppositieleiders Joop den Uyl en Hans van Mierlo een schaduwkabinet dat klaar stond om te regeren. Als er daadwerkelijk een rechts kabinet aantreedt dan moeten Job Cohen, Alexander Pechtold en Femke Halsema de handen ineen slaan en een nieuw schaduwkabinet vormen, dat het roer van het schip van staat overneemt als Mark Rutte de macht over dit stuur verliest. Zo’n schaduwkabinet - dat helemaal in de geest van Van Thijn is en het publicitair weer ongelooflijk goed gaat doen - wordt dan bovendien een vast baken en een signaal van hoop in een verwilderde en stormachtige tijd, waar donkere wolken zich samenpakken.
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Power is constantly sought through the use of means which render its effective use, once acquired, impossible,
Ezra Klein - Discrediting the legislative process itself
Here’s a nifty trick a psychology professor once told me: Always ask, “What are your questions?” instead of, “Are there any questions.” It’s supposed to increase responses by quite a a bit.
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You will never be prepared for the things you are capable of doing. You will achieve your greatest accomplishments not by building up a grand framework of skill and then deftly creating something glorious, but by starting small and persevering in making it better and better. It is never an easy road and you will gain a grand framework of skills, but you have to push your boundaries to grow.
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It seems clear to me that Obama and the rest of us cite Hitler because it is always at the extremes that propositions break down, problematizing their soundness and coherency in general; this is the case with moral, legal, and logical assertions, so it is only natural that one would frequently have recourse to cite one of the most extraordinary situations in recent history in order to expose the inconsistencies or disutility of an idea, particularly a moral one.
mills baker - A nonviolent movement could not have halted...
Infodrome, in 1999 door detoenmalige regering ingesteld als denktank op het gebied van deinformatiesamenleving, ziet in zijn eindrapport Controle geven of nemen driemaatschappelijke krachten die bestaande instituties onder druk zetten:deterritorialisering (globalisering, waardoor onder meer nationale wetgeving onderdruk komt te staan), vernetwerking (vervanging van gescheiden organisatiepatronendoor netwerken van onderling afhankelijke actoren) en vervlechting (vervagen vanscheidslijnen tussen bijvoorbeeld publiek en privaat, werk en privé).
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Now we are faced with the daunting task of wrapping our minds around the Palin memoir Going Rogue, appearing atop a bestseller list near you. Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead.
ginandtacos.com review of Going Rogue