Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Two Secrets To Success In World Cup Penalty Shootouts, Law, And Life: Practice + Teamwork

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ChatGPT: the stunningly simple key to the emergence of understanding Medium


For the youngest generation, $428,474 is needed to classify yourself as rich.


Looking for God in all the rock places: Are Australians craving spiritual connection?


The Two Secrets To Success In World Cup Penalty Shootouts, Law, And Life: Practice + Teamwork

Wall Street Journal, A Psychologist Spent Five Years Studying World Cup Penalty Shootouts:

Every job requires performance under pressure. Here’s what everybody can learn from the most tense few minutes in sports.

There are more people who have traveled to space than soccer players who have taken a penalty kick in a World Cup shootout, and there is nobody on this planet who has done more to understand the minds of those athletes than a psychologist named Geir Jordet. 

He spent five years of his life watching footage of every shootout of every major international men’s tournament for the past half-century. ... His goal was to learn as much as he possibly could about the complexities of performance under pressure—which is how the lessons from a soccer field in Qatar apply to every line of work. ...




We asked faculty members, library staff, and many others about the best books they read in 2022. This is what they told us. “As 2022 nears an end, we reached out to an array of scholars and experts from across Johns Hopkins University, asking about their favorite books from the past year. From gripping novels to insightful and thought-provoking non-fiction, addressing topics from race to politics to love to identity, their book recommendations offer something for readers of all interests and backgrounds.”


ChatGPT on Spielberg’s A.I.


  1. “Canadian Hegelianism turns out to be its own philosophical tradition” — Amod Lele (Boston U.) tells us what it is
  2. Philosophically interesting books for young kids — a DN list from several years ago
  3. “Not to put too fine a point on it, but in general the project of ‘value lock-in’ is team evil” — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on cultural plasticity, technology and values, the importance of institutions, and what we owe the future
  4. “Now there is no nature in the world because we’re in charge everywhere. The only question is are we going to be benign and fostering stewards or not?” — Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) interviewed in the NYT
  5. On the “various threads of philosophy that could be tested against sexual experience, reimagining pornography’s lessons” — Kathleen Lubey (St. John’s) on why we should “apprehend the full contents of pornography”
  6. How and why to call on your students — advice from Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin)
  7. Money: a philosophy course — Andrew Bailey (Yale-NUS) explains the value of his “Money” course to Axios (includes link to his syllabus)


Teens and Cyberbullying 2022

“Nearly half of U.S. teens have been bullied or harassed online, with physical appearance being seen as a relatively common reason why. Older teen girls are especially likely to report being targeted by online abuse overall and because of their appearance. 
While bullying existed long before the internet, the rise of smartphones and social media has brought a new and more public arena into play for this aggressive behavior. Nearly half of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 (46%) report ever experiencing at least one of six cyberbullying behaviors asked about in a Pew Research Center survey conducted April 14-May 4, 2022. The most commonly reported behavior in this survey is name-calling, with 32% of teens saying they have been called an offensive name online or on their cellphone. Smaller shares say they have had false rumors spread about them online (22%) or have been sent explicit images they didn’t ask for (17%). 
Some 15% of teens say they have experienced someone other than a parent constantly asking them where they are, what they’re doing or who they’re with, while 10% say they have been physically threatened and 7% of teens say they have had explicit images of them shared without their consent. In total, 28% of teens have experienced multiple types of cyberbullying…”

Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha NYT. I have to run this, because it’s “out there.” 

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