{"id":658825,"date":"2013-05-17T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75923"},"modified":"2013-05-17T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:07:55","slug":"your-weekend-reading-the-case-against-empathy-gorgeous-photos-from-the-natgeo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658825","title":{"rendered":"Your weekend reading: The case against empathy, gorgeous photos from the NatGeo contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can only digest six awesome pieces of Internet content this week (plus one congrats), look no further. Here&#8217;s a round-up of the best stories on the webs this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/ab86a82431639992733b1a12b81e94d830d2173a_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TED speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure.html\" >Paul Bloom<\/a> makes a compelling case against empathy, arguing that empathy alone is not sufficient to uphold morality &#8212; and may even work against it. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2013\/05\/20\/130520crat_atlarge_bloom\" >The New Yorker<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>42 truly stunning photos from the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2013\/05\/2013-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest\/100516\/\" >The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Would you be friends with Humbert Humbert? Authors weigh in on whether fictional characters ought to be likable. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/05\/would-you-want-to-be-friends-with-humbert-humbert-a-forum-on-likeability.html\" >New Yorker blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/damon_horowitz_philosophy_in_prison.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/3f6dda85c262a19435f481dfe30c3ebe469d874a_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most popular way to spend time at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Virginia is &#8230; reading Tolstoy? [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime-and-punishment-juvenile-offenders-study-russian-literature\/2013\/05\/12\/59b4b14c-b8e3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html\" >The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/damon_horowitz_philosophy_in_prison.html\" >Watch a talk on philosophy in prisons \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists show an electronic jolt to the brain can improve mental arithmetic skills in the long-term, and without negative side-effects. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn23559-zap-the-brain-with-electricity-to-speed-up-mental-maths.html\" >New Scientist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hadfield alights from space with another social media masterpiece, a cover of David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity,&#8221; along with a full-length music video. Shot in the International Space Station. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo\" >YouTube<\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/05\/13\/space-oddity-indeed-18-talks-from-astronauts-including-chris-hadfield\/\" >Watch a TED Blog playlist we published to welcome him home \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/raghava_kk_five_lives_of_an_artist.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/152872_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Raghava KK: My 5 lives as an artist\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Raghava KK: My 5 lives as an artist<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a brief congrats to TED speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/raghava_kk_five_lives_of_an_artist.html\" >Raghava KK<\/a>, who was named a <a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/05\/15\/announcing-the-2013-class-of-emerging-explorers\/\" >National Geographic Emerging Explorer<\/a> this week, and TED Fellows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/skylar_tibbits_can_we_make_things_that_make_themselves.html\" >Skylar Tibbits<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theverymany.com\/\" >Marc Fornes<\/a>, who were both awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/73107475\/2013-architectural-league-prize-for-young-architects-designers\" >2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75923\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75923\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=75923&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/UW_wdozeQHo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can only digest six awesome pieces of Internet content this week (plus one congrats), look no further. Here&#8217;s a round-up of the best stories on the webs this week. Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure TED speaker Paul Bloom makes a compelling case against empathy, arguing that empathy alone is not sufficient to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}