From time to time I round up the links to articles I’ve been sharing with my followers on Twitter, where I’ve been microblogging for the last couple of months. I’m passing some along here to my non-Twittering readers, along with other stuff that you just don’t want to miss. I hope you enjoy these.
- Neuroscience and illusion: using magic to understand attention, consciousness in this article via The Situationist, which wonders elsewhere whether major league baseball can deter divorce
- A personal injury mediation seen from three sides, in the latest International Dispute Negotiation podcast
- Rhythm, which fosters bonding, communication, is not uniquely a human characteristic, as a study considers a dancing parrot
- It’s statistically likely that people don’t know how to apply statistics in making decisions, via Cognitive Daily
- Framing illness: in a time of pandemic, let us ask ourselves, to what extent is disease a social construct?
- Lessons from the NFL in personnel selection, at Minding the Workplace
- Philip Hesketh shares tips on marketing mediation to personal injury lawyers in an article for Mediator Magazine
- The Canadian law blog Slaw.ca asks, will lawyers use neuroenhancers? And might it be malpractice if they don’t?
- Larger groups of sparrows reportedly solve problems faster than smaller ones, according to Not Rocket Science
- Bob Sutton considers how group decisions go wrong
- The ultimate beginner’s mind – inside the infant brain, an article appearing in the Boston Globe
- Mapping the seven deadly sins – the distribution of bad behavior across the U.S. How does your state rank?
- Why you’re the last to know when your brain makes decisions, via Neuromarketing
- Good news for folks who talk with their hands – using gestures can aid learning, according to Science Daily
- “The Edges of Orthodoxy in Mediation” (PDF) – the latest provocative thinking from John Wade, courtesy of Geoff Sharp
- Jeff Thompson, a mediator and New York City police officer who publishes the blog Enjoy Mediation asks, “Are You an Effective Mediator?” (And you’d better answer, “Yes, Officer!”)
- Vickie Pynchon’s superb series of video interviews and clips from the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution spring meeting last month in New York City, including “Are We Post-Racial Yet?“, “50 Ways to Break an Impasse: Sam Imperati at the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference“, and “Mediation as Sales and Niche Mediation Practice with Jim Melamed of Mediate.com“
- John Folk-Williams at Cross Collaborate provides highlights from Peter Adler’s lengthy Mediate.com essay, “The End of Mediation“.