EST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Childhood Obesity, Dark Web
30 Jan 2018
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More and more research findings turning out to be mistakes or useless. Perspectives: what people call work: most undergrads: getting shit done, most grad students: working for that money, most doctoral students: is this worth it, neuroscientists: Every time you shift your attention from one thing to another, the brain has to engage a neurochemical switch that uses up nutrients in the brain to accomplish that. So if you"re attempting to multitask, you know, doing four or five things at once, you"re not actually doing four or five things at once, because the brain doesn"t work that way. Instead, you"re rapidly shifting from one thing to the next, depleting neural resources as you go. Technology is the "raw material" for fighting economic inequality: history is ruthlessly clear about what happens when too much wealth ends up in the hands of the very few.
