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To: maceng2 who wrote (45951)	2/6/2006 8:06:07 PM
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To: maceng2 who wrote (45951)	2/7/2006 4:29:20 AM
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Pearly I was not aware HVDC was in use in so many areas - always good pearls of wisdom here - but then I read this: marginalrevolution.com Against brainstorming Tyler Cowen Time and again research has shown that people think of more new ideas on their own than they do in a group. The false belief that people are more creative in groups has been dubbed by psychologists the ‘illusion of group of productivity”. But why does this illusion persist? Bernard Nijstad and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam argue it’s because when we’re in a group, other people are talking, the pressure isn’t always on us and so we’re less aware of all the times that we fail to think of a new idea. By contrast, when we’re working alone and we can’t think of anything, there’s no avoiding the fact that we’re failing... The researchers said “We suggest that working in a group may lead to a sense of continuous activity. This may provide group members with the idea that they are productive, because they feel that the group as a whole is making progress, even if they themselves are not contributing”. Other possible reasons for why people think they work better in groups include ‘memory confusion’, the idea that after working in groups people subsequently mistake other people’s ideas for the own, and ‘social comparison’, the idea that in groups people are able to see how difficult everyone else has found it to come up with ideas too. Here is more, including a link to the paper. Deep in my bones I know this to be true. Unless, of course, brainstorming helps you self-acculturate into a group... February 6, 2006 at 05:26 AM in Education \| Permalink \| Comments (10) \| TrackBack (0) As to EMF and biological systems - I just read this on slashdot - it is some loony theory about cooking eggs with 2 cell phones slashdot.org Anyways one of the comments say this: Of course the cell phone thing is ridiculous. Even IF you could get two modern (i.e. microwave-band) phones to operate at the full 2W continuously, you're a far cry from the hundreds of watts a microwave oven needs to cook the same eggs -- and a microwave oven has a resonation chamber to bounce the waves around until they're absorbed by the food. I suppose if you irradiated an egg using cell phones and could build a metal chamber to resonate those waves and contain them until absorption, you could eventually cook an egg. It would take a long time though, and for what it will cost you in either cell bills or fried phones you could have just bought a damn Egg McMuffin! And so one of the links there went to this guy: cheniere.org Mechanisms for Deep Penetration of Environmental Dense Weak EM Noise Interference Into the Body, and Long-Term Deleterious Effects Thereof I am drowning in psuedoscience and he seems like a crackpot and then I read this: Message 22132538 So Pearly - as we build out our world with more and more EMF emitting devices and such - what is going to be the long term results of billions and trillions of low power transcievers cell wifi wimax bluetooth -etc etc and such flooding the atmosphere in our wireless future on biological systems? My head starts ringing if I sit in front of my 12 monitor setup too long - where is my tinfoil hat - hehe realtimesoft.com realtimesoft.com realtimesoft.com