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08/06/16 7:36 AM

#252711 RE: F6 #252649

They are trying to kill investigation! .. why? .. it's said curiosity has killed .. how many cats??? could be billions .. but really. kill curiosity? .. and it wouldn't work, as those rewritten headlines are as drab and stuffed with info that it would be impossible, IMPOSSIBLE not to click on every one of them just to see if there was anything interesting inside .. and hey you know how people, and what they're made of, fight back when threatened .. well, as the feeling threatened inquisitive bits of our brains were feeling so threatened by those staid and stuffy ultra uninteresting new anti-clickbait headlines .. like the .. hm, one sec .. ok, yeah, the nucleus accumbens, for one (thank sod for recall, chuckle), and other brain bits being threatened would be fighting back with all the strength of every loving synapse of their each very being! .. they are trying to kill the human brain!! .. it's a conspiracy!!! .. could even cause strokes .. call AJ!

Seriously, i thank my wet sock those headlines were rewritten "in the spirit of practice and loving fealty"!!!

Can i just slip one in now? Thanks.

What ISIS Really Wants

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among
them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

It was a toss-up between that one and pasta.





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F6

08/09/16 10:33 AM

#252881 RE: F6 #252649

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Journalism (HBO)


Published on Aug 7, 2016 by LastWeekTonight [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ / http://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight , http://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight/videos ]

The newspaper industry is suffering. That’s bad news for journalists — both real and fictional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ [with (already nearly 7,000) comments]
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F6

08/12/16 11:26 PM

#253235 RE: F6 #252649

Do Your Friends Actually Like You?

AUG. 6, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/do-your-friends-actually-like-you.html [with comments]


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Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change
March 22, 2016
Abstract
Persuasion is at the core of norm creation, emergence of collective action, and solutions to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. In this paper, we show that the directionality of friendship ties affect the extent to which individuals can influence the behavior of each other. Moreover, we find that people are typically poor at perceiving the directionality of their friendship ties and that this can significantly limit their ability to engage in cooperative arrangements. This could lead to failures in establishing compatible norms, acting together, finding compromise solutions, and persuading others to act. We then suggest strategies to overcome this limitation by using two topological characteristics of the perceived friendship network. The findings of this paper have significant consequences for designing interventions that seek to harness social influence for collective action.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151588 [full access to complete study]


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