Category: Blog
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Tess Owen on X: “my therapist just told me that the NYT word games app is becoming a problem for many of her patients, including me” / X
Tess Owen on X: “my therapist just told me that the NYT word games app is becoming a problem for many of her patients, including me” / X — Read on twitter.com/misstessowen/status/1780608134026817918
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Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer
Most people would have given up, but Saunders was not most people. “Anyone can do it,” he was fond of saying to sceptics. “It’s really quite simple.” https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food
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Fermi’s Paradox and TikTok
Though written in 2007, the arguments still stack up: So, it looks as if there are two possibilities. Perhaps our science over-estimates the likelihood of extra-terrestrial intelligence evolving. Or, perhaps evolved technical intelligence has some deep tendency to be self-limiting, even self-exterminating. After Hiroshima, some suggested that any aliens bright enough to make colonizing space-ships…
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Daniel Dennett is Dead
I read his Consciousness Explained and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea in grad school and when I came back to reading about the mind, I started by rereading CE and then went on to his latest, From Bacteria to Bach and Back He is, without doubt the biggest influence on my thought. I find his reductive, materialist,…
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Jonathan Bernard : « Si le temps d’écran a son importance, le contexte d’exposition des enfants compte beaucoup si ce n’est plus »
On a pu mesurer que tous les domaines cognitifs ne sont pas touchés de la même façon : le langage, expressif comme réceptif, est affecté chez les jeunes enfants, davantage que la motricité ou le raisonnement non verbal. Nous avons aussi pu constater que, si le temps d’écran a son importance, le contexte d’exposition compte beaucoup si ce…