From
hacking to a free Google power user course, it’s all here, and it’s not
finance.
The Century Of The Self Part I: The Happiness
Machines – The
Big Picture
Bernays invented the public relations
profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas and use
them to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could
make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced
goods to their unconscious desires.
Google Wants to Make You a Power User – Tech News
Google is offering you a chance to step up your
search game. The company said it will provide a series of six courses in July
to turn the average Google user into a power user. The free 50-minute classes
can be taken during a two-week window beginning July 10.
Powershift – brain
pickings
Alvin Toffler on the Age of Post-Fact Knowledge
and the Super-Symbolic Economy (1990)
A Snitch’s Dilemma – NYT
Magazine
Life as a police informant.
Have you ever chatted with a Hacker within a
virus? – AVG Blog
Fifty years ago, the Cuban missile crisis
brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. Every president since John
F. Kennedy has tried to learn from what happened back then. Today, it can help
U.S. policymakers understand what to do -- and what not to do -- about Iran,
North Korea, China, and presidential decision-making in general.
An App Keeps Spies Away from Your iPhone – technology
review
A cryptography pioneer offers a simple way to
fight electronic surveillance.
A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth and Fiction – DealBook
/ NYT
Complex Thinking Behind the Bow and Arrow – ScienceDaily
University of Tübingen and South African researchers have revealed sophisticated design and
technology developed by early humans.
Getting Star Trek on the air was impossible – Letters
of Note
Why I Write: George Orwell’s Four Motives for
Creation – brain
pickings
“Sheer egoism… Writers share this
characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers,
successful businessmen — in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.”
Scientists developing device to 'hack' into
brain of Stephen Hawking – The
Telegraph
Stephen Hawking is testing out a groundbreaking
device to allow him to communicate through brain waves in a project that
scientists have likened to 'hacking into his brain.'
Unpopular Mandate: Why do politicians reverse
their positions? – The
New Yorker
The Talented M. Despallières – Business
Week
How the author became tangled up with an
international con man who may or may not have murdered several people.
How to Win at Three Card Monte – The
Altucher Confidential
Aspen Ideas Festival
Daily
Roundup 28-Jun – Thomson
Reuters
Daily
Roundup 29-Jun – Thomson
Reuters
Can Waiting Help You Make Better Decisions? – Farnam
Street
The Medication Generation – WSJ
Many young people today have now spent most of
their lives on antidepressants. Have the drugs made them 'emotionally
illiterate'?
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych
and neuro links
The Special Issue Spotter – The
British Psychological Society
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have
to