Useful and fun resources

The Replication Crisis

A podcast called `Two Psychologists Four Beers' on Is Ego Depletion Real?
A series of articles on the FiveThirtyEight website about the replication crisis in Science: Parts 1-4
A follow up about how Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has Made The Field Better.

Concrete

One of the most brilliant uses of concreteness that I have encountered: The Tail End, by Tim Urban.

Cooking

• An incredible course on cooking and science that opens with an inspiring talk by the greats Ferran Adrià and José Andrés.
• If you have netflix, I highly recommend the recent book and travel cooking show by Samin Nosrat Salt Fat Acid Heat. I got to spend a little time with her in Berkeley and she's great fun.

Fun resources

The three Linklater films that came up in our discussion of Romanticism:

Before Sunrise Before Sunset Before Midnight

Two of the advertisements that came up in our discussion of opening an expectations gap:
Major Temper Tantrum
Baby

Quotes

From the Heath Brothers Made to Stick Credible Chapter:

Of course, let’s also remember that it’s easier to lie without statistics than with them. Data enforces boundaries. Unless people are unethical enough to make up data, the reality of the data constrains them.

From Grant Holverson's Succeed:

As Thomas Edison once noted, "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

From the Heath's Made to Stick:

Mysteries are powerful, Cialdini says, because they create a need for closure. “You’ve heard of the famous Aha! experience, right?” he says. “Well, the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.”

Nelson Hilario offered us:

Mexican poet and philosopher Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz once said that if Aristotle had learned how to cook, he would have been a better philosopher.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on defining design elegance:

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

In Albert Einstein's words:

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask… for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.