Editorial notes: In February 2013, Shai adds Evernote to his suite of repositories. This is an application designed specifically for note-taking, organising, task lists and archiving. This proves to be the ideal tool for him to better control his ever-growing research notes, stored primarily up to this point, in handwritten notebooks and documents stored in his Google drive. Between February 2013...
But You Are Free is a persuasion technique that consists of reaffirming a person’s free choice. The specific words are not especially important, (“BYAF” is as good as “but obviously do not feel obligated”). Strength depends on being done face-to-face. It still has an effect in email, but it is reduced. Supported by 42 studies and 22,000 subjects/people. The best...
The intention is to create “Biomes” for bibliomatic (bibliophrenic?)…{?}. So far (27.02.13) we have the Concepts “BYAF” and “Neurochronoarchitecture”… actually, the former is more accurately described as an Idea… hence, I’m renaming Concepts to Ideas, since the former are a subset. For now, it would be best to accumulate items under...
Summary: The rediscovery of Lucretius’ text by Italian scribe (Poggio Bracciolini) and its impact on contemporary / renaissance thinking. Quote: “[With Lucretius] it became possible – never easy, but possible – in the poet Auden’s phrase to find the mortal world enough.” {Preface} “Acediosus, sometimes translated as “apathetic,” refers to an illness...
Some essential part of stories lies in their telling. Here is a story: Kant has the idea of the sublime, whereby the aesthetic is significantly determined by its ability to transcend (and hence terrify) our senses. For instance the magnitude of a mountain or a storm – both threaten our sense of self and perception by impressing upon us fact that there is always more, forcing us to teeter...
A summary of intent of practicality in Bk.I[I]: (This approach is justified by the book’s opening passages; written to his son to guide him on his education, which is an achievement of life, and not merely its underlying theory). Duty, which defines what we must do with our lives, can be reduced into its essential elements: profit and honesty, and their interaction. Everything that we do...
Here some Notes are taken describing books acquired, thus possibly illustrating motivations, etc., which may serve Bibliome growth. 2013_03_01: A book by Cicero and by Drabble, via the Philosophy and Literature Bibliomes. Dense Macarbe by Stephen King, which are essays on his thoughts on Horror. This serves my previous affection for his writings and respect for his authorship, and which may...
Editorial notes: This is the first in a series of 30 Science News, documented mostly in Evernote between April 2013 and October 2014. Concepts: Neural decoding of dreams. Also: hypnagogic hallucinations. Source: A News and Analysis and an (original research) Report, both in Science (April 5, 2013). History: A 2005 study developed an algorithm that could read fMRI recordings to determine which one...
Concept: Oncometabolites. Also: Dynamic interplay of metabolome and epigenome. Source: News and Views in Nature (April 3, 2013) of a study published in Science. Background: It was already known that mutations in proteins involved in metabolism may be associated with cancer, but this is the first study to show that a metabolite may be sufficient for oncogenesis. Previous studies identified...
Concept: Adaptive diversification. Also: allopatric diversification; sympatric diversification; frequency-dependent selection. Source: An (original research) article published in PLoS Biology (February 19, 2013) Background: A dichotomy of diversification follows depending on whether the ancestral populations were geographically isolated from each other (allopatric diversification) or not...
