Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)I almost titled this blog post "dick-swinging isn't leadership".
Toxic masculinity is highly prevalent in business culture. If we accept that one of the primary roles of a manager is to create the conditions for your team to do your best work, it's something that we need to watch out for and put a s...
The long read: As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out.
Researchers combed Vatican archives to find records of how ancient church policies restricting whom one could marry shaped Western values and family structures today.
Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic (WEIRD) countries ❧
I love this acronym!
Annotated on August 01, 2020 at 05:41PM
That restructuring of societies in Western Europe in turn also benefited the church, notes Henrich. “In some sense, the church is killing off clans, and they’re often getting the lands in wealth,” he says. “So this is enriching the church. Meanwhile, Europeans are broken down into monogamous, nuclear families and they can’t re-create the complex kinship structures that we [still] see elsewhere in the world.” ❧
If true, this is an astounding finding.
Annotated on August 01, 2020 at 05:46PM
Chapter 2: Knowledge and Power in oral cultures
Oral traditions in the literature Public vs. restricted knowledge, knowledge trade, and formal teaching. We have generally done a poor job of untangling the vast knowledge indigenous people have.
Recently, I saw a thesis adviser mark points off a history student's thesis for including a 19th c 2ndary source in bihy. So while one needs to be careful w/ 19th c. histories, here's a brief thread w/ 2 reasons y I also love them.…
This post is a collaboration between myself, and a guest author who wishes to stay anonymous. They are a researcher and PhD candidate in neuroscience, based in Europe, and in the post they are referred to as Alice. When people talk about failures, often rejections are the first things that come to mind. But what ... Read more 9 ways to fail a project in grad school and beyond
HARKing
It refers to the questionable research practice of hypothesizing after the results are known.
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARKing ❧
Annotated on July 27, 2020 at 01:26PM
There's 1 key line in 'Breaking Bad' that led to future Jimmy McGill working as a Cinnabon manager in Omaha.
"Is anyone else concerned?"
Chapter 1: Primary orality in the archaeological context
Apparently he and Harrison Ford had a bit of an argument over it.
In a new Inc. webinar, Limitless author and memory expert Jim Kwik taught the audience a new way to take notes so as to get the most value out of them. You should start using it immediately -- I know I'm going to. It all begins with drawing a line down the center of the page.
Aaron Parecki (Aaron Parecki)Chirpify Acquires Urban Airship Preview
Last night around 11pm, I posted a link to the above story on Twitter, Facebook, and on my own site with the caption "Chirpify acquires Urban Airship".
The note contained a bit.ly link which redirected to a shrturl.co link which then displayed the article.
Thi...
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)Earlier in the week, I noted the release of IndieAuth 3.5.0, but I didn’t explain the major under the hood changes that occurred here in a post, which I need to do as at least one person is experiencing issues(probably necessitating a 3.5.1 as soon as I figure out why.) I also noted I forgot to de...
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)Micropub 2.2.0 has one major change in it. IndieAuth client code was removed. This code now lives in the IndieAuth plugin. This means that Micropub does not check for scopes. It uses the built-in WordPress capability system to determine if an action should be performed. The IndieAuth plugin limits c...
He presided over live morning shows for four decades, emceed 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' and served as Joey Bishop's late-night sidekick.
