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The Einstellung Effect

I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of this in ways I can't imagine:

in brief: "The Einstellung effect is a cognitive trap that prevents us from seeing better or simpler solutions to problems we're trying to solve."

more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstellung_effect

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Category: Ideas & Questions
Created: 07 April 2020

Podcast: Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts

I found this an interesting listen:

Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jTzhEVBsoyXZ3CzUqvpYx?si=Tx_UBXwNR2m_ClpT0ARSWw

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judica-Cordiglia_brothers

More "EXTREMES" podcasts: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8xzmzp/extremes-is-our-podcast-about-people-who-lived-through-wild-situations

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Category: Ideas & Questions
Created: 03 April 2020

Minerals - Waiting to be found

A short visual exploration into the world of undiscovered rocks and minerals.

Dan Hoopert on Vimeo

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Category: Ideas & Questions
Created: 24 March 2020

Comets and the Plague

News that there's a new inbound comet that's brightening a lot faster than expected: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-comet-atlas.html

On a completely unrelated note, a few articles linking comets to outbreaks of plague and as harbingers of doom:

  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326160954_Comets_and_Contagion_Evolution_Plague_and_Diseases_From_Space
  • https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Comets+as+predictors+of+plague&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
  • A selection from Cultures of Plague
  • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4x3yeg/a-comet-tried-to-kill-earth-with-the-black-death

You can find a lot more...

 

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Category: Ideas & Questions
Created: 24 March 2020
  1. Patterns & Numbers
  2. The DreamTime
  3. The Silurian Hypothesis
  4. Evolutions in Thought

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