Well this is neat, some researchers are arguing that fairness is a hard-wired emotion.
The belief that things should be divided fairly among members of a group isn’t just a matter of culture or reason — it’s an emotion that’s built into the human brain.
That’s the suggestion of a new study that posed the question: Is [...]
Category Archives: Mind Space
Fairness is an Emotion
May 9, 2008 – 9:40 am
TED Talks: What Makes us Happy?
March 17, 2008 – 9:13 am
TED gets a lot of neat people to talk about the neat things that they do. Lucky for us they post these talks online once the conference is done for the rest of us to enjoy. TED has compiled some themes, and one of them seems made for this site! Find out what makes us [...]
Be Lazy When Waiting for the Bus
January 24, 2008 – 10:10 am
Waiting for a bus that never seems to come can be one of life’s more aggravating moments. No need to sit around getting all frustrated with underfunded services though. Thanks to the power of mathematics we now know that you should justbe lazy and sit and wait for the bus.
Scott Kominers, a mathematician at [...]
2008 Will be a Blue Year
January 10, 2008 – 9:50 am
The colour blue is predicted to overtake green in the coming year, and I like it. Blue has bee chosen because it is calming and radiant, perhaps it really is the colour of the zeitgeist?
“From a color forecasting perspective, we have chosen PANTONE 18-3943 Blue Iris as the color of the year, as it best [...]
Starbucks Actually Helps
January 7, 2008 – 10:29 am
Starbucks is a massive international coffee chain that is infamous for putting their own coffee shops across the street from one another. They also have a reputation that they drive local independent coffee shops out of business, it seems this reputation is undeserved.
Slate has an article examining how Starbucks helps small coffee shops by giving [...]
LOL Yoga
December 18, 2007 – 1:31 pm
We know that expecting a hilarious time results in more endorphins and laughing clubs help you live longer, so is it possible laughing can get any better than it already is?
The answer is yes, the answer is laughing yoga:
ANd let’s not forget lolcats.
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