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Very interesting Freakonomics podcast revealing something about ourselves. Also check this article, where a bit more info is given about what really influences our behavior.

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Next dinner party.. a conversation menu?

Google Search social features

I just found out that Google adds some social information to my search results. Nice feature.

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The promise and peril of social computing.. (article) - Interesting graph about political blogging. I wonder how they were able to make all blogs either red or blue.

The promise and peril of social computing.. (article) - Interesting graph about political blogging. I wonder how they were able to make all blogs either red or blue.

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Dunbar's number

Dunbar’s number is a theoretical 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] Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar’s number. It lies between 100 and 230, but a commonly used value is 150. *Dunbar’s number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia* Dunbar’s number is a theoretical 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. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar’s number. It lies between 100 and 230, but a commonly used value is 150.

Monkey story

Scientists put some monkeys in a room. There was a large basket of fruit in the middle of the room hanging from the ceiling.  As each monkey tried to grab the fruit, water would be sprayed on the monkey.  Each monkey experienced the water and saw one another being sprayed with it.  No monkey ever successfully grabbed the fruit.  Scientists then cleaned the water on the floor, dried the monkeys, and replaced one monkey in the room with one who never experienced or saw the cold water.  The new monkey attempted to grab the fruit, but the other monkeys held this new monkey back…communicating to the monkey that grabbing the fruit is not acceptable behavior. The scientists eventually replaced every monkey in the room, until all the monkeys had never experienced nor saw the cold water sprayed, yet they did not reach for the fruit.

The idea of not reaching for the fruit has being “socially constructed.”