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Прикосновения и поглаживания — дорога к счастью и стабильной экономической обстановке на планете. Погладьте ближнего своего, не задумывайтесь.
…in recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm — can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and accurately than words.
The evidence that such messages can lead to clear, almost immediate changes in how people think and behave is accumulating fast. Students who received a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher were nearly twice as likely to volunteer in class as those who did not, studies have found. A sympathetic touch from a doctor leaves people with the impression that the visit lasted twice as long, compared with estimates from people who were untouched. Research by Tiffany Field of the Touch Research Institute in Miami has found that a massage from a loved one can not only ease pain but also soothe depression and strengthen a relationship. (Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean So Much, NYT)
Touch. Research. Institute. Невероятно.
Картинка: tebe-interesno, пост пришёл от аквы, спасибо им обоим большое.
Social Lending Landscape by Peter Gassner
(via fuckyeahinfo • datavis)
Слово дня: funemployment
A happy time in one’s life when one is not employed and is not wanting to be employed
People are more likely to lend a hand to a perfect stranger if they have benefited from such kindness in the past. Now scientists have discovered that rodents show this behavior, too. A research team at the University of Bern in Switzerland trained rats to deliver food for one another by pulling a stick.
Then they divided the animals into two groups: some rats received food from other animals, whereas others did not. The team observed that rats that had received help were more likely to pull the stick for unfamiliar animals—going one step beyond the well-documented “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” reciprocity that is seen in many species.
Studies have demonstrated this kind of altruism toward strangers—termed generalized reciprocity—in humans. For example, one experiment showed that people who found money in a telephone booth were more likely to help a stranger pick up dropped papers. But scientists have not yet figured out whether cultural experience or natural selection explains such acts of kindness. The fact that rats show generalized reciprocity hints that an evolutionary mechanism is involved, the researchers say.
Как реагируют люди, которые теряют аккаунт на фликре, а потом теряют его снова
— Какой у «Знания — силы» тираж?
— 11,5 тысяч. После дефолта 1998 года он вообще упал до 4,5 тысяч, но потом удалось его нарастить. В советские времена было 800 тысяч. Как сейчас повлияет кризис, я пока не знаю, хотя надеюсь, что мы выживем и будем дальше следовать нашей миссии — быть изданием на стыке науки и общества.
Это и есть наша беда. Люди предлагают услуги, в которые сами не верят. Люди не знают, почему в их ресторане есть чайная карта, где чайник проветрившегося чая стоит сто долларов. Люди не понимают значения материалов, фактур, принципов, условностей, шрифтов, знаков, сигналов. Не существует благородства, уверенности, достоинства, чести. Существуют тупые мудаки, которые должны весь день стоять в дорогих пиджаках и лицемерной улыбкой, продавая товар, в котором они нихуя вообще не разбираются.
После рабочего дня продавец Роллс-Ройсов отправляется в свои Мытищи, поднимается пешком на третий этаж своей хрущобы и заваливается на свою разъебанную одноместную тахту. Он никогда в жизни не поверит, что кому-то его работа может оказаться действительно нужной. Если он продаст автомобиль за поллимона, он будет всем рассказывать, как охуенно наебал лоха. Он выполняет свою одноклеточную программу. А потом устало так сообщает друзьям, что ему «надоело со всеми этими людьми обсчацо», снабжая свою речь шизофреническими двуточиями и пятиточиями.
At Davos, Mark told the story of an art class he took at Harvard. He was busy starting Facebook and didn’t have time to attend the class or study. The final exam was a week away and he was worried about flunking. So he went to the Internet and downloaded images of all the art that he knew would be on the exam (not sure how he knew that - Jeff leaves that part out). He puts them all up on a web page and adds blank boxes under each of them. Then he emails the web page to all of his classmates and tells them he just put up a study guide. The class responds by marking up the page, editing each other, and getting it perfect. Zuckerberg aces the exam, of course, but also the professor told him that the entire class had done much better than usual on the exam.
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I like this story because it shows the value of public interaction. Yes, Mark in classic Tom Sawyer fashion got them to do his work for him, but they also got better as a group. They did it together.
Why don’t you put a donation link somewhere?
Our goal has never been to make money out of this work. We’re not going to ask money and not even to accept it. We used a proprietary 3D engine from Valve, we used their content and we also used a few (three) licensed music. For as long as we don’t earn money out of it, we shouldn’t get too much in trouble for anything. Plus, that was simply not the point of the whole thing.
Тридцать одна сторона доверия
В человеческих надденежных ценностях черт ногу сломит. Доверие — и валюта, и состояние, и артефакт, и модификатор реальности, и манипуляция. ¶
Karma Economics
You never know when your karma brings you a holy grail. You may never see it at all, but *doing* buys you an extra ticket every time. ¶
