Dunbar’s number kicked my ass
http://www.wired.com/2012/03/dunbars-number-facebook/ Before I hit the J’s, I converted to Facebook’s Timeline. As a result, I lost access to the alphabetical friend list, which brought my social experiment to a screeching halt. In trying to disprove Dunbar’s number, I actually proved it. I only made it through 1,000 of my 2,000 Facebook friends. But that was…
How we rise from grief can define us
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/70224979/rosemary-mcleod-how-we-rise-from-grief-can-define-us New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard will be navigating an ocean of trauma of another kind for the next few years, heading an ambitious Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Britain. Possibly one in 20 children in Britain have been abused, she says, and police there are preparing for a 71 per cent rise…
Spend four hours a day on your feet
Spend four hours a day on your feet, experts say http://t.co/m0C8qe14Od pic.twitter.com/fwmPAQ0Fvf — Stuff.co.nz News (@NZStuff) July 21, 2015 You’ve probably heard that “sitting is the new smoking” – the looming health risk in the computer age. A proliferation of studies over the past decade has linked prolonged stretches of sedentariness to an uptick in…
Holy grail for brain imaging
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/varc-ipo072115.php This is the holy grail for brain imaging,” says lead researcher Dr. K. Luan Phan, chief of neuropsychiatric research at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center and professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “We hope in the future to be able to use scans to help distinguish PTSD from…
Everyday Mindfulness
"Happiness doesn't just happen to you, you have to work at it." ~ @DalaiLama #mindfulness — Everyday Mindfulness (@mindfuleveryday) July 17, 2015
NZ is in the top 10
Which country has the best reputation? NZ is in the top 10 http://t.co/Ensk8yOagU pic.twitter.com/7GbiAsZQ9i — nzherald (@nzherald) July 21, 2015
Test may catch Alzheimer’s disease early
New test may catch Alzheimer's disease early, researchers say: http://t.co/OUwGNreQpv pic.twitter.com/zpfp0pSQDX — CNN (@CNN) July 21, 2015
Facebook subject to Dunbar’s Number
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/70352643/Opinion-Why-your-friends-on-Facebook-probably-aren-t How many “friends” do you have on Facebook? If you’re like most people then you’ll probably have more than 150. Perhaps many more.The problem is that the research is clear that this means that you’re unlikely to have a meaningful relationship with all of these “friends”‘. The 150 limit is known as “Dunbar’s Number”…
Dunbar’s Number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.[1][2][3][4][5][6] This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar,…