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'Hungry Planet: What The World Eats' : NPR (tags: npr consumption globalization hunger culture interesting food health economy world consumerism anthropology)

The Technium: Collapsitarians

Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom (tags: ideas behaviour education presentation video lectures ted wisdom moral) Why are we so scared of dentists? "Often a child's initial visit to the dentist is an urgent response – they have been in pain and need some work – so that initial memory is connected with pain.…

Do the eyebrows have it? "You might or might not have noticed it was for Cadbury's chocolate, and if you did, you might also have wondered why a drumming gorilla should make you want to buy chocolate. Good thoughts, and the correct responses are: yes, it was intriguing; yes, it did make you want to…

The Slide Into Addiction to Economic Pessimism "Like real porn, the economic variety gives you the illusion of control, and similarly it only leaves you hungry for more. But econo-porn also feeds a powerful sense of intellectual vanity. You walk the streets feeling superior to all these heedless knaves who have no clue what’s coming…

A Student’s Approach to the Second Law and Entropy "Meanwhile, back at the classroom, the lecture is drawing to a close. Just as the bell rings, the lecturer, if he's a really smooth operator, comes to the end of a sentence, a paragraph, a nice neat unit. He lays down his last piece of chalk…