Ep 19. Emotional Contagion

links:

• DOD Civil unrest study


• Facebook’s research (the actual study)
  
  
  
  • New York Times
  
  
  • Pew Research
  
  
  • the Atlantic
  
  
  • Wired
  
  
  
  


• James’ Hypothesis: Priming


• New York Times article on strangers People feel better if they talk to a stranger


• The audibility and clarity of MTA subway announcements has declined, but it was worse before 2006 Thankfully, Straphangers.org work was (indirectly) recognized and the MTA launched their first Rider Report Card


• Writing class with Richard Price at Baruch College


• Movie from the poster in his bathroom, New York Stories


• First nuclear weapons were not megaton bombs, they were much smaller (like 12k tons)


• Tsar Bomba (~50 megatons)


• Words That Are Most Known to Only Men or Women


• The History of Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys Lots of internal links within, for delightfully curious minds


• Goldie Blox

(music: Happiness by Tondrae Kemp)