Month: October 2008

All Scientific Articles, Research, Landscape and Human Health Laboratory, University of Illinois Human Health Benefits Of Natural Landscapes

Natural Settings Help Brain Fatigue – Well Blog – NYTimes.com Attention restoration theory suggests that walks in nature and views of green space capture our involuntary attention, giving our directed attention a needed rest.

Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Video on TED.com Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values…

Pollan’s Proposals For the time-strapped who didn’t get around to reading Pollan’s recent NYT’s magazine piece on food policy, here is a great overview of that article.

Multitasking Can Make You Lose … Um … Focus – NYTimes.com As our minds fill with noise — feckless synaptic events signifying nothing — the brain gradually loses its capacity to attend fully and gradually to anything,

working with cakephp’s “hasAndBelongsToMany” model type reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter’s G.E.B and the “set of all sets” Venn diagram.

I always forget this, so I’m putting it here for posterity: rsync -rnv –delete /Volumes/Maxtor 300GB/Music /Volumes/Music Library/

Have meeting at Princeton Univ today. Any suggestions on getting from Red Bank to Princeton? 195? 33? 520? Moving east to west in nj stinks

Pickled some peppers.: These need to ferment for a couple of weeks but should be good on sandwiches.

Dawn patrol: Jersey keeps on giving nice post from Brian Donohue on NJ: “If you dig a little deeper in Jersey, log a bit of effort, you can score both solitude and spectacle – sometimes at the same time.”