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News Briefs 09-02-2016

Crumbly, but…good.

Thanks to Thommes, Kat and @mpesce.

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Carl Sagan

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  1. “Woo-Peddlers”
    http://realitysandwich.com/319194/in-defense-of-the-woo-peddlers/

    “One consideration that apparently concerned neither the study’s authors nor the journalists covering them was whether any of these researchers were capable of guiding their subjects in meaningful methods of positive-mind dynamics. Did they evince the genius and inventiveness of, say, a mental-conditioning pioneer such as Emile Coué? What, in the end, was really tested? (Perhaps it was the researchers’ abilities as motivational coaches.)”

    “The researchers concluded: “… students with high expectations of success received comparatively more job offers and earned more money; students experiencing positive fantasies, to the contrary, received comparatively fewer job offers and earned less money.” Here is an example of how “fringe thinking” can get conflated with “positive thinking”: The researchers did not discover that positive thinkers earned less; rather, they found that positive fantasizers seemed to perform less well, while negative fantasizers were not studied.”

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