"Content with hips and haws and brambleberry, / In contemplation passing still his days"

[larryhammer]

Linkage, linkage, linkage, always with the linkage. At least, sometimes.

Things they don’t tell you about being a first time wheelchair user in highschool. (via)

It is not a fact that we live in a post-fact world. Summary of the evidence for and, increasingly, against the idea that presenting someone with evidence that contradicts existing biases will provoke doubling-down. (via?)

What it takes to be a wilderness fire watch: “It doesn’t take much in the way of mind and body to be a lookout. It’s mostly soul.” (via?)

Subject quote from "A Passion of My Lord of Essex," Robert Devereux.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Knew someone on LJ who did the wilderness fire watch thing and I badly miss his pics!

[larryhammer]

Ooo -- yeah, that would be a good feed.

[sovay]

Summary of the evidence for and, increasingly, against the idea that presenting someone with evidence that contradicts existing biases will provoke doubling-down.

I was very glad to see this article, for reasons that are not entirely rational. The original wave of no-point-in-facts, facts-only-make-things-worse felt so much like something that people want to believe, because it lets them off the hook (both for trying to change others' minds and trying to change their own), that I didn't want it to be true.

[larryhammer]

That. All that.

Now mind, we still have to struggle with how HOW you present additional facts affects how effective they are. Framing, story-telling, all that -- those all matter. Now more than ever.

[sovay]

Framing, story-telling, all that -- those all matter. Now more than ever.

Absolutely. But that's better than shrugging and agreeing we're all just neurologically doomed.

[larryhammer]

Yup yup yup.

[pseudo_tsuga]

My mom did fire watch for a few summers in the 70's--it's nice to know that it's still going on.

[larryhammer]

Coo. Did she have fun?