{"id":594,"date":"2010-06-04T01:04:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2010-06-04T01:04:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:04:20","slug":"elsewhere-on-the-net-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/elsewhere-on-the-net-2\/","title":{"rendered":"elsewhere on the net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some neat links from the past few weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.wordpress.com\/\">You Are No So Smart<\/a>: A celebration of self-delusion. An excellent blog by journalist David McCraney that deconstructs common myths about the way the mind works.<\/li>\n<li>NPR has a great story by Jon Hamilton about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=126229305\">the famous saga of Einstein&#8217;s brain<\/a> and what it&#8217;s helped teach us about brain function. [via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/06\/02\/3034\/\">Carl Zimmer<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The Neuroskeptic has a characteristically excellent 1,000 word explanation of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neuroskeptic.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/fmri-in-1000-words.html\">how fMRI works<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>David Rock has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/your-brain-work\/201005\/is-free-will-real-better-believe-it-even-if-its-not\">an interesting post<\/a> on some recent work from Baumeister&#8217;s group purportedly showing that it&#8217;s good to believe in free will (whether or not it exists). My own feeling about this is that Baumeister&#8217;s not really studying people&#8217;s <em>philosophical<\/em> views about free will, but rather a construct closely related to self-efficacy and locus of control. But it&#8217;s certainly an interesting line of research.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theprodigalacademic.blogspot.com\">The Prodigal Academic<\/a> is a great new blog about all things academic. I&#8217;ve found it particularly interesting since several of the posts so far have been about <a href=\"http:\/\/theprodigalacademic.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/search-committee-math-or-what-does-it.html\">job searches<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theprodigalacademic.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/interviewing-from-perspective-of-job.html\">job-seeking<\/a>&#8211;something I&#8217;ll be experiencing my fill of over the next few months.<\/li>\n<li>Prof-like Substance has a great 5-part series (<a href=\"http:\/\/proflikesubstance.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/how-blogging-helps-me-1-of-5.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/proflikesubstance.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/hbhm-2-of-5-work-like-butterfly-focus.html\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/proflikesubstance.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/hbhm-3-of-5-connecting-dots.html\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/proflikesubstance.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/hbhm-4-of-5-getting-pushed.html\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/proflikesubstance.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/hbhm-5-of-5-i-wish-i-had-zuskas-balls.html\">5<\/a>) on how blogging helps him as an academic. My own (much less eloquent) thoughts on that are\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/academic-bloggers-on-blogging\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cameron Neylon makes a nice case for the development of <a href=\"http:\/\/cameronneylon.net\/blog\/why-the-web-of-data-needs-to-be-social\/\">social webs for data mining<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of data mining, Michael Driscoll of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dataspora.com\/\">Dataspora<\/a> has an interesting pair of posts <a href=\"http:\/\/dataspora.com\/blog\/the-data-singularity-is-here\/\">extolling the virtues<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/dataspora.com\/blog\/new-tools-for-big-data\/\">Big Data<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And just to balance things out, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/16\/magazine\/16FOB-WWLN-t.htm\">this article in the New York Times<\/a> by John Allen Paulos that offers some cautionary words about the challenges of using empirical data to support policy decisions.<\/li>\n<li>On a totally science-less note, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benheine.com\/pencilvscamera.html\">nifty drawings<\/a> (or is that photos?) by <a href=\"http:\/\/benheine.com\">Ben Heine<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbrains.net\/2010\/06\/pencil-camera-drawing.html\">Crooked Brains<\/a>):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_NpINLHeo8rM\/TATbAaeNN1I\/AAAAAAAAzLI\/zqn3a207s7E\/s400\/13.jpg?resize=400%2C263\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_NpINLHeo8rM\/TATbz2p2WFI\/AAAAAAAAzMA\/YBB4mbJIsTs\/s400\/5.jpg?resize=400%2C283\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_NpINLHeo8rM\/TATb1jGSVeI\/AAAAAAAAzMg\/0lpp3diWrII\/s400\/1.jpg?resize=400%2C274\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some neat links from the past few weeks: You Are No So Smart: A celebration of self-delusion. An excellent blog by journalist David McCraney that deconstructs common myths about the way the mind works. NPR has a great story by Jon Hamilton about the famous saga of Einstein&#8217;s brain and what it&#8217;s helped teach us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/elsewhere-on-the-net-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">elsewhere on the net<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[355,46,352,268,33,721,354,697,206,356,353],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEZxN-9A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}