If You Seek (Kay)

[geoviki]

I spend a lot of time reading Slate and Salon, two liberal online news mags. And even I'm getting tired of reading their too-numerous rants about Birthers (who think Obama was born in Kenya, never mind the ridiculousness of the logistics alone) and now Deathers (who claim U.S. health care reform is gonna murder Grandma, oh noes!). So I applaud other stuff when it come up, and here's an article that really caught my attention:

How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.

Okay, I really saw myself in that. But beyond the catchy headline, it goes into an interesting place regarding how the human brain is craving "seeking" and how that drive is even more powerful than "getting". I love reading about how the human brain works, yep! Plus it explains how I manage to spend so much time here at the computer and yet get so damn little done.

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[lookfar.livejournal.com]

Did you see that interesting thingie in the NY times a few days ago about guilt, shame and restitution? Basically, kids do okay with a smattering of guilt, especially if they are impulsive because it slows that down, but moreso if they are taught the concept of restitution, that is, guilt means you have to fix something rather than guilt is your punishment so you should just suffer.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

No, I missed that one. *scurries to check it out*