Links to Your World, Tuesday November 29

25 most-used passwords including, yes, "password."

How to save $10,000 by next Thanksgiving

Feeling like a flaba-flaba? Learn to trash talk across the centuries with Jonathon Green’s new book, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a 6,200-page lexicon.

6 types of college class hand-raisers.

"The science of learning is demonstrating that the ability to make accurate estimates is closely tied to the ability to understand and solve problems" (Time).

Ignorance may actually be bliss. By remaining unengaged with the details of an important issue, individuals feel they can maintain dependence on another party to take care of it.

Voters Prefer Deep-Voiced Politicians

Poll shows that 100% of grandsons are talented.

"High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at [web] searching. In a recent experiment at Northwestern, when 102 undergraduates were asked to do some research online, none went to the trouble of checking the authors’ credentials. In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search?... Good education is the true key to effective search." (Time)

When people view a virtual version of themselves digitally aged by several decades, contributions to retirement accounts go up by 30 percent (story). I wonder if that would also drive us to develop our character, too.

"Willpower can indeed be quite limited — but only if you believe it is. When people believe that willpower is fixed and limited, their willpower is easily depleted. But when people believe that willpower is self-renewing — that when you work hard, you’re energized to work more; that when you’ve resisted one temptation, you can better resist the next one — then people successfully exert more willpower. It turns out that willpower is in your head" (NYT).

Listen to Chard deNiord read "Augustine's Pears" here.