#greg walton

The 1980s was a period (in)famous for it's bold designs. These are several design proposals for the void Les Halles area in Paris. 1980.

1: Richard Ness

2: Greg Walton

3: Unknown architect (but I like the extreme castle-like feeling)

4: Unknown architect but Rem Koolhaas would have been proud

5: Okumara Takashi

 ”In research we conducted…, we confirmed that 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."

Clipped from www.futurity.org

Simply sharing a love for something—a favorite band or book—is enough to make you care about  someone you’ve just met.

In a set of experiments, researchers found that when two people share just a few things in common, one can take on the feelings and physical reactions of the other who has been placed in an uncomfortable situation.

“When people have longstanding relationships, they have shared experiences and overlapping social networks,” says Greg Walton, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. “But we found that even when you strip those things away and create a sense of social connection in a lab with a five-minute conversation, that’s sufficient to build a relationship where you care about someone.”