Link blog: video, atheism, negotiation, johann-hari
Verbal Judo: Diffusing Conflict Through Conversation An ex-English Professor and ex-Cop, George Thompson, who now teaches a method he calls "Verbal Judo", a primer on communications techniques,...
View ArticleLink blog: ai, chatroulette, sex, pornography
YouTube – Simon Blackburn – The Great Debate: Can Science Tell us Right From Wrong? (6) I'm reading Blackburn's "Truth" at the moment, and "Being Good" is next on the queue (clearly I should get...
View ArticleAsking women out at partner dancing: a Less Wrong thread
Over on Less Wrong, an interesting post on ordinary skills that readers happent to lack has developed into an interesting sub-thread about guys asking women out at dancing. I’ve contributed a bit. As...
View ArticleLink blog: music, game-of-thrones, google, nick-davies
YouTube – Game of Thrones Violin Cover This is rather nice.(tags: music violin game-of-thrones) YouTube – Lara plays the Game of Thrones theme on piano and violin Another nice version of the...
View ArticleLink blog: daniel-kahneman, psychology, cognitive-bias, rationality
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) The guy who single handedly runs Pinboard writing about Facebook and social stuff.(tags: socialgraph social facebook graph pinboard relationships) The...
View ArticleLink blog: science, relationships, epistemology, biology
Hegemonic Heterosexuality “hegemonic heterosexuality is the vast cultural conspiracy to describe all heterosexual relationships as the unending war between stupid people and crazy people.” Good...
View ArticleBishops Gone Wild: York vs gay marriage
John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, recently released a statement on gay marriage. It’s doing the rounds on Facebook. Here’s a comment I posted there: What an odd article: long on words, short on...
View ArticleLink blog: relationships, lifehack, rhetoric, equivocation
#322 & #323 “My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?” « CaptainAwkward.com What to do about That Guy (discusses stuff That Guy does). Via Andrewducker.(tags: social...
View ArticleWhat is the problem you are trying to solve?
The Scotts Aaronsen and Alexander both worry that following feminist doctrine makes geeky guys miserable and too scared to even attempt to form a romantic relationship with a woman. Hugh Ristik looks...
View ArticleLink blog: emotion, computers, mindfulness, sudo
What We Can Learn from the Paris Attacks (Without Ignoring the Elephant in the Room) Yep, this is more or less what I think.(tags: paris terrorism islam islamism religion politics) What is emotional...
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