Jim Willis

Natural Settings Help Brain Fatigue – Well Blog – NYTimes.com Attention restoration theory suggests that walks in nature and views of green space capture our involuntary attention, giving our directed attention a needed rest.

Multitasking Can Make You Lose … Um … Focus – NYTimes.com As our minds fill with noise — feckless synaptic events signifying nothing — the brain gradually loses its capacity to attend fully and gradually to anything,

Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Video on TED.com Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values…

Pollan’s Proposals For the time-strapped who didn’t get around to reading Pollan’s recent NYT’s magazine piece on food policy, here is a great overview of that article.

working with cakephp’s “hasAndBelongsToMany” model type reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter’s G.E.B and the “set of all sets” Venn diagram.

I always forget this, so I’m putting it here for posterity: rsync -rnv –delete /Volumes/Maxtor 300GB/Music /Volumes/Music Library/

Have meeting at Princeton Univ today. Any suggestions on getting from Red Bank to Princeton? 195? 33? 520? Moving east to west in nj stinks

Pickled some peppers.: These need to ferment for a couple of weeks but should be good on sandwiches.

Dawn patrol: Jersey keeps on giving nice post from Brian Donohue on NJ: “If you dig a little deeper in Jersey, log a bit of effort, you can score both solitude and spectacle – sometimes at the same time.”

Scott Russell Sanders Just read “A Private History of Awe.” Wonderful book that resonated on so many different levels.