Play nice! How the internet is trying to design out toxic behaviour

Online abuse can be cruel – but for some tech companies it is an existential threat. Can giants such as Facebook use behavioural psychology and persuasive design to tame the trolls?

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Does anyone understand what happened at the Republican debate? | Jeb Lund | Opinion | The Guardian

Does anyone understand what happened at the Republican debate? | Jeb Lund

Donald Trump told the truth, insults were hurled, Spanish was spoken and the moderator had to threaten to turn the car around. It was a fiasco for everyone

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/14/republican-debate-south-carolina-fiasco-what-happened

Ted Cruz campaign using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users | US news | The Guardian

Ted Cruz campaign using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users

Exclusive: Documents reveal donor-funded US startup embedded in Republican's campaign paid UK university academics to collect psychological profiles on potential voters

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data

Master of the house: why we should fight for truly private spaces

New technology connects us, but in a world where you’re only ever a swipe away from other people’s thoughts, where do you keep your own?

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The anatomy of procrastination – and how pupils can beat it

YouTube, Facebook, the sidebar of shame; we all procrastinate sometimes. But you can teach your students to overcome it

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The Atlantic: The Simple Psychological Trick to Political Persuasion.

The Atlantic: The Simple Psychological Trick to Political Persuasion. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwruOfljQ

Does Silicon Valley’s reign herald the end of social democracy? | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/20/silicon-valley-end-of-social-democracy

Refugee crisis: young migrants blaze new trails through Europe | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/19/young-migrants-trailblazers-hungary-croatia-serbia

Study delivers bleak verdict on validity of psychology experiment results

Study delivers bleak verdict on validity of psychology experiment results

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Are tablet computers harming our children's ability to read?

Are tablet computers harming our children's ability to read?

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‘Take out the sugar and everything changes’: the lab on the food wars frontline | Society | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/19/sugar-cut-uk-intake-scientists-lobby-government

Greek eurozone crisis: In or out, financial future is far from rosy | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/21/greek-eurozone-crisis-financial-future

Greek debt crisis: episodes of despair and drama as moment of truth nears | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/20/greece-debt-crisis-athens-austerity

Seven common myths about meditation

Seven common myths about meditation

http://gu.com/p/496d9

The Observer view on why you should vote Labour | Observer editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/03/the-observer-view-on-why-you-should-vote-labour

from the guardian : Apple Watch: are you feeling the terror?

That the smartwatch is going to normalise several things that should appal us is precisely what we should be most concerned about. Once we love it we’re lost

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/11/apple-watch-are-you-feeling-the-terror

guardian - would i be happier if I didnt read the news

hmmmm.... have to say can identify with quite a few points in this article!

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/14/would-i-be-happier-if-i-didnt-read-the-news

"likely to be highly addictive. Also, may cause: anxiety, distraction, depression, sense of helplessness, drowsiness and outrage. In addition, users should note: may be totally ineffective in stated aim of making you or world a better place. Recommended prescription: three large doses per day and infinite application at 20- to 30-minute intervals, forever.
That, for me, is the news."

"a great deal of my news consumption is simply disguised distraction. But it’s hard to stop, because news is the popping candy that I can pretend is wholemeal bread"

"I have built a confirmation bias so strongly into my own fabric that it’s hard to imagine a fact that could wonk me. At some level, the news has become a vast apparatus for continually proving me right in my pre-existing prejudices about the world"

"that’s what’s so infuriating about the news. That in the end what you read and watch is just a reflection of what you’re interested in and who you are, and that’s quite difficult to escape"

Don’t condemn the Church. Who else argues for the common good? | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/22/church-of-england-language-common-good-listen

Students used to take drugs to get high. Now they take them to get higher grades

Students used to take drugs to get high. Now they take them to get higher grades

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Depression and the fragility of the strong, silent male | Yvonne Roberts | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/08/depression-drives-many-men-to-commit-suicide