Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Zhuangzi argues that we must first be disorientated by language to discover that higher knowledge is beyond words.
Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained
To combat climate change, the nonprofit group C40 Cities is partnering with a Danish firm to pilot walkable neighborhoods in five global cities.
A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
In the aftershocks of this pandemic’s ever-shifting “new normals”, let us make sure we create space for new and better patterns of life to emerge
Urban Empathy: The Next Big Shift
The startling findings were that people made better choices when not thinking at all, especially in complex consumer settings.
The researchers argued that this is because our unconscious processes are less constrained than conscious processes, which make huge demands on our cognitive system. Unconscious processes, such as intuition, function in ways
... See moreTo What Extent Are We Ruled by Unconscious Forces? - Neuroscience News
fear of crime is deeply embedded in American society, and positive news about falling crime rates won’t simply make that fear go away.
Abdallah Fayyad • Why do Americans always think crime is going up?
It might be prudent, they say, to redirect some resources we use to feed livestock, such as cereal crops and fish suitable for human consumption, back into our food supply pool. The team believes those animals could instead chow down on certain food byproducts humans would typically throw away. Things like sugar beet, citrus pulp and crop residues.... See more
Scientists Say We Could Feed 1 Billion More People With One Change to the Global Food System
Parents have long been sold a model of childrearing that simply doesn’t work. From reward charts to time outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans. These techniques don’t build the skills kids need for life, or account for their complex emotional needs. Add to that parents’ complicated relationships... See more
Becky Kennedy • Good Inside
I realized the benefits to be gained from a formal list of mental model heuristics drawn from the decades of published research on the subject. So, I revisited the literature and sketched a list of eight heuristics for designing to support mental models.