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David Dunning
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Studying the psychology underlying human misbelief.

Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan.

(PS. Neither Justin nor I named it that. Best career move we never made.)

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David Alan Dunning is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He is a retired professor of psychology at Cornell University.

Source: Wikipedia
Psychology 41%
Neuroscience 18%
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)

Sorry to say that the Brits to New Years Eve much better than we do, at least when it comes to television celebrations. No contest. Three exhibits. #1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3y...
Olivia Dean - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) (Jools' Annual Hootenanny 2025)
YouTube video by BBC Music
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As we bid 2025 goodbye, I'm reminded just how impossible it is to anticipate the geography of any upcoming year. Predictions are tough, especially about the future.

But, despite that, let me wish everyone a terrific new year and a good and scenic hike across the terrain that awaits in 2026.

Siri, what is schadenfreude?
OH NO! DISASTER! OHIO STATE! A PICK-SIX!

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OH NO! DISASTER! OHIO STATE! A PICK-SIX!

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ICYMI: "The first payments from a more-than $600 million fund to settle Flint water crisis lawsuits have been made."

You cannot imagine how much it took to get here.
First claims paid from $600 million Flint water crisis settlement fund
An online portal started processing payments for about 7,000 property damage claims since December 12. According to the official settlement website, 2,854 payments had been made as of Tuesday evening.
www.michiganpublic.org

Impossible to answer, here goes: Cuarón, González Iñárritu, Wenders, Yimou, Kar-wai, Kurosawa, Wenders, Kieślowski

For docs: Errol Morris
Name your fav film director

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Name your fav film director

Don't know if this is a pure masterpiece or an abomination, but this thing really slaps, as the kids say.

Ooh Baby, Baby, Linda Ronstadt, backed by the Miracles & Funk Brothers (recommend good headphones)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlF0...
NEW MIX!! "Ooh Baby Baby" Linda Ronstadt & The Miracles (2025 Special Mix) ***
YouTube video by themotownboy1
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Unintended consequences.

(Oh, the pain, the pain. I can't stop watching this lying on the couch and it hurts from all the laughing. Please hand me another tissue.)
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Das ist super!

Firm creates a society of AIs...on specialists v. generalists, norms, paperclips, and AIs that want to do their own thing.

"I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
1000 AIs were let loose to build their own village and society in Minecraft, reports @tomhowarth.bsky.social.

An interesting experience that does raise some questions:

www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

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1000 AIs were let loose to build their own village and society in Minecraft, reports @tomhowarth.bsky.social.

An interesting experience that does raise some questions:

www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

If this is life imitating art, wrong art.

What will he do when Jessie Owens and Wilma Rudolph win?
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"

Smile.
Karoline No

I know there’s an answer , but what on earth was lovely Leavitt thinking when she posed for photographs that made her look older than the sloop Don T? God only knows.

by Maureen Dowd

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Karoline No

I know there’s an answer , but what on earth was lovely Leavitt thinking when she posed for photographs that made her look older than the sloop Don T? God only knows.

by Maureen Dowd

Fonzie, on the water skis.

At this rate SNL will never be able to keep up.

It is just more repetitive here. Over and over.

Worse, I go over the "Discover" feed and it's the exact same skeets as my follow thread...

Like the skeet I am replying to now...

I remember a conversation in my department back at Cornell about who might be best to suggest as the new dean. Who had the best vision for the college, people asked.

My reply was that I wasn't worried so much about the new dean's vision as much as I would be about their hearing.
The true leader in a group is rarely the person who talks the most. It's usually the person who listens best.

Listening is more than hearing what’s said. It’s noticing and surfacing what isn’t said.

Inviting dissenting views and amplifying quiet voices are acts of leadership.

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The true leader in a group is rarely the person who talks the most. It's usually the person who listens best.

Listening is more than hearing what’s said. It’s noticing and surfacing what isn’t said.

Inviting dissenting views and amplifying quiet voices are acts of leadership.

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Rebuilding trust in science requires people to see themselves in science: expanding representation and social connection across race, gender, class, religion, and rural identity, not just sharing more information.
Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
www.nature.com

We need not repeat the words of the mentally ill. We treat them with compassion. They need not be President.

We can note and celebrate the best in human nature. How we respond to tragedy is the means by which we discover ourselves.
2/2 … with how Rob Reiner responded to the death of Charlie Kirk:

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2/2 … with how Rob Reiner responded to the death of Charlie Kirk:

The movies, of course, are deservingly considered classics. But I will always think first of "All in the Family." There was American culture before and there was American culture after.

RIP. My thoughts to their family.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keX9...
All in the Family - A Sock and a Sock
YouTube video by 704 Hauser Street
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MARTINELLI SAID TOP BINS 🎯

The first Arsenal player to score in FIVE straight UCL games 🔥