Worth the listen for those interesting in learning how creativity really works: "Creativity and the Everyday Brain with Rex Jung"
How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? New techniques of brain imaging, Rex Jung says, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between intelligence, creativity, and personality. He unsettle
Choosing violent resistance & 3D Printing Galore
Like everyone else, I’ve been reading about the world’s first 3D printed gun. Hailing from my alma mater, Cody Wilson has some interesting political philosophy surrounding his 3D printed machinery. Check out this FP piece on it, and this video of his interview with Glenn Beck.
A lot of folks are writing this guy off as nuts, smart, but nuts. I think what is super interesting about his philosophy is that his arguments help us (to some degree) understand why some civilians choose violence over non-violent methods of resistance: they want to compete using the same tools of the state.
Will this kind of technology make violent resistance more efficient?
Other interesting 3D stories popping up on the internet:
Really creepy artwork using DNA to reconstruct faces
A moral and security imperative for action in Syria? "It's Time to Act in Syria" - By Dennis Ross
The short summary of this piece is that there is a moral imperative to stop the violence against the Syrian population. Second, there is a security imperative for the US to take action: the US needs to prevent conflict from spreading and ensure powerful weapons don’t fall into the wrong hands. The path ahead: at the very least US needs to identify groups that the US can support with both via lethal and nonlethal assistance.
Communal violence in Myanmar: When the lid blows off | The Economist
Helpful summary of what is going on in Myanmar.
GDELT: What can we learn from the last 200 million things that happened in the world? | War of Ideas
This is worth a read. A few friends have asked: Is this the wave of the future for poli sci? Well it is certainly likely to be an improvement…
A 2008 survey of the top six psychology journals dramatically shows how common that assumption was: more than 96 percent of the subjects tested in psychological studies from 2003 to 2007 were Westerners—with nearly 70 percent from the United States alone. Put another way: 96 percent of human subjects in these studies came from countries that represent only 12 percent of the world’s population.
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