Monday, 26 July 2010
200,000 year old metropolis
Southern Africa has evidence of what would have been a large city, populated around 200,000 years ago.
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
It is amazing how much time just drifts away, day by day.
It is amazing how much time just drifts away, day by day.
Physicists Tame Time Travel by Forbidding You to Kill Your Grandfather
Physicists Tame Time Travel by Forbidding You to Kill Your Grandfather | Wired Science | Wired.com
Maybe explains inexplicable strange behaviour around one from time to time.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Arete
Arete (Greek) is that state or property that makes something good or excellent in itself - it's "virtuousness".
Time
Philip Zimbardo - Time-focus
February 2009
See http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healthy_take_on_time.html
and
http://blog.ted.com/2010/06/phillip_zimbard.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TEDBlog+(TEDBlog) for some great animation (from RSAnimate) illustrating the text.
Promised Virtues fall prey to the Passions of the Moment
Two-thirds of 4 year olds give in to temptation for 1 marshmallow now versus 2 marshmallows later. In a study 14 years later, the children who resisted the temptation had a SAT score 250 points higher than the children who gave in to the temptation (Stanford study).
Dividing the time flow of human experience into different time frame or time zones - automatically and non-consciously.
People become biased by learned over-use of some frames and under-use of others.
Make a Decision - Take an Action (cf Aristotle).
Past Oriented - Memories (What Was)
Present Oriented - Immediate Situation / Stimulation (What Is Now)
Future Oriented - Anticipated Consequences (Cost Benefit Analsysi) - What Will Be
6 Time Perspective (TP) Factors:
1. Past TP - Focus on Positives
2. Past TP - Focus on Negatives
3. Present TP - Hedonism
4. Present TP - Fatalism
5. Future TP - Life Goal-Oriented
6. Future TP - Transcendental (Life after death of the mortal body)
Optimal Time Profile:
- High on Past-Positive
- Moderately High on Future
- Moderate on Present-Hedonism
- Low on Past-Negative
- Low on Present-Fatalism
Past-Positive gives you Roots - to connect to your identity and family - to be grounded
Future gives you Wings - to soar to new destinations and challenges
Present-Hedonism gives your Energy - to expore people, places, self and sensuality
The video:
February 2009
See http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healthy_take_on_time.html
and
http://blog.ted.com/2010/06/phillip_zimbard.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TEDBlog+(TEDBlog) for some great animation (from RSAnimate) illustrating the text.
Promised Virtues fall prey to the Passions of the Moment
Two-thirds of 4 year olds give in to temptation for 1 marshmallow now versus 2 marshmallows later. In a study 14 years later, the children who resisted the temptation had a SAT score 250 points higher than the children who gave in to the temptation (Stanford study).
Dividing the time flow of human experience into different time frame or time zones - automatically and non-consciously.
People become biased by learned over-use of some frames and under-use of others.
Make a Decision - Take an Action (cf Aristotle).
Past Oriented - Memories (What Was)
Present Oriented - Immediate Situation / Stimulation (What Is Now)
Future Oriented - Anticipated Consequences (Cost Benefit Analsysi) - What Will Be
6 Time Perspective (TP) Factors:
1. Past TP - Focus on Positives
2. Past TP - Focus on Negatives
3. Present TP - Hedonism
4. Present TP - Fatalism
5. Future TP - Life Goal-Oriented
6. Future TP - Transcendental (Life after death of the mortal body)
Optimal Time Profile:
- High on Past-Positive
- Moderately High on Future
- Moderate on Present-Hedonism
- Low on Past-Negative
- Low on Present-Fatalism
Past-Positive gives you Roots - to connect to your identity and family - to be grounded
Future gives you Wings - to soar to new destinations and challenges
Present-Hedonism gives your Energy - to expore people, places, self and sensuality
The video:
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