Group Think — If two is company and three a crowd, what’s the ideal number to write a play or invent a new operating system? Some say you need groups to be creative. Others disagree: breakthroughs come only in solitude. Hear both sides, and find out why you always have company even when alone: meet the “parliament of selves” that drive your brain’s decision-making. Plus, how ideas of societies lead them to thrive or fall, and why educated conservatives have lost trust in science.
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The Psychology of Twitter
This program was recorded in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, on April 26, 2011.
Do you post comments online? Blog about your ideas? Tweet your opinion? Perhaps you’re a "lurker," listening to, reading and following others who have their say in social media? It’s no secret that Twitter, blogs and Facebook have changed the way we communicate, but have they tapped in to our modern pathological need to be "revered"? And, what does it really mean to be "someone" in the Twittersphere?
At a pub in Brisbane, a panel of twittering journos and scientists fess up on their desires, obsessions, and hates of social media and try to unpick the psychology behind our intimate relationship with it. Among the panelists are Dr. Rod Lamberts, a science communications expert from ANU; Andy Gregson, a social networking entrepreneur; and Natasha Mitchell, the presenter of Radio National’s "All in the Mind," who’s a fervent blogger and Tweeter herself. Leading the conversation is "New Inventors" judge and ABC science broadcaster, Bernie Hobbs.
This event is presented by ABC Cafe Scientific, as part of the Brisbane ‘media140’ conference.
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Can Science Be Done Without Secrecy? : NPR
In his book, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Physicist Michael Nielsen discusses why scientists jealously guard their data and are slow to adopt online tools for collaboration. Nielsen talks about why attempts to create science wikipedias have failed.
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145990103/can-science-be-done-without-secrecy
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From the Science Podcast: Science’s Kerry Klein speaks with Alison Gopnik about scientific analysis in toddlers.
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