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Hypnosis, Illusion, and Politics
http://lpcprof.typepad.com/ law_and_magic_blog/ 2008/ 10/ reader-brian-willis-di…Reader Brian Willis directs me to a TED talk by magician Keith Barry. Mr. Barry bills himself as a hypnomagician. The talk, and Mr. Barry's examples, lead me to wonder about the link between the willingness to believe what we see ("seeing is believing") and the willingness to believe what we hear,
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Lack of Control and Seeing Patterns Linked
http://lpcprof.typepad.com/ law_and_magic_blog/ 2008/ 10/ lack-of-control-and-se…NPR has this story about the link between a feeling of powerlessness and the likelihood that one will see patterns.
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Using the Socratic Method
http://news.tourthailand.org/ business-news/ using-the-socratic-method.htmlBridging THE GAP Using the Socratic Method KRIENGSAK NIRATPATTANASAI ‘Khun Kriengsak, how should I coach my Thai team?” David asks me in our first coaching session. He’s been on the job for a month in charge of his company’s Thai office. “Things seemed to be okay until my direct report came to ask my opinion,” he says.
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Ideas for Life
http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/ ?p=404Advertising can be philosophically annoying. I don’t just mean ads which contain obvious lies (Carlsburg — probably the best beer in the world), trivial truths (There’s only one Coca-Cola), irrelevancies (Waaassuuuuup!), or fallacious thinking (If I can lose weight, you can too). I mean adverts
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Two snap influence primers
http://www.limbicnutrition.com/ blog/ two-snap-influence-primers/Ok, so you have forgotten your Cialdini and you need a quick brush up on influence techniques? Check out these two: How to Persuade People With Subconscious Techniques - Wiki How 9 Secret Ways to Persuade and Influence People - Dumb Little Man
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The Resilient Community
http://www.limbicnutrition.com/ blog/ the-resilient-community/“Resilient communities are a self-organizing response to global system failure. In thermodynamic terms, for those that like this model, RCs are a high evolved dissipative structure that replaces a closed thermodynamic system on its way to equilibrium (heat death).1 …This conceptual model creates a
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A Martial Arts Lesson in Compassion
http://revellian.com/ 2008/ 10/ 05/ a-martial-arts-lesson-in-compassion/A brilliant martial arts instructor, Dr. Donald Green (a PhD in both psychology and sociology and master of Moo Duk Kwan or “school of martial virtue” - a hardcore Korean kicking art) told me once while referring to another student who was full of his own egotism, “Listen closely to what he says - and even closer to what he doesn’t say.
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American Communism Has Arrived
http://revellian.com/ 2008/ 10/ 03/ american-communism-has-arrived/After an overwhelming majority of American people begged congress on their hands and knees to reject the bailout - they ignored us and spit in our faces. American communism has arrived. My heart sunk in my chest as I watched in disbelief as America has been enslaved on a whole new level.
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What's Jenny Advocating?
http://lpcprof.typepad.com/ law_and_magic_blog/ 2008/ 10/ the-new-mccarthyism.ht…["She] has a lot of balls to come forward and be on that side, because there is an angry mob on my side." This statement was Jenny McCarthy's, on actress Amanda Peet, who according to Time magazine, had said that parents who don't vaccinate their children are "irresponsible." Read it here in an article by Hollie McKay on the FoxNews website.
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This Year's Ignobel Prizes
http://lpcprof.typepad.com/ law_and_magic_blog/ 2008/ 10/ this-years-ignobel-pri…The Annals of Improbable Research has hosted and given out the Ig Nobel Prizes once again. Among the winners this year: Dan Ariely, of MIT and Duke University, author of Predictably Irrational, for his work in showing that "high-priced fake medicine" is more efficacious than fake medicine that you don't pay as much for.
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