Alt Text: Taking Another Look at the Myth of the ‘Nice Guy’ Lore Sjöberg, wired.com Lore Sjoberg examines the linguistic and cultural implications of the myth of the “nice guy.” Lore Sjöberg Alt Text: Taking Another Look at the Myth of the ‘Nice Guy’ http://flip.it/ocVTh http://flip.it/M6idu Related articles Explore - This myth that early risers … Continue reading The myth of the nice guy
6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com Ever scoff at someone for buying refurbished? Or found yourself dropping $40 on an HDMI cable? We all hear (and spread) tech myths to mostly harmless ends, but in some cases those myths end up costing you a lot of money. Here are a … Continue reading 6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money
3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking Anxiety By Deborah Grayson Riegel, fastcompany.com Mark Twain once said, “There are two kinds of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.” In other words, no matter how seasoned or “under-seasoned” you are when it comes to making presentations, there is going to be some… RT … Continue reading 3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking
Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week. RT @TelegraphSci: Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals http://flip.it/o4phh http://flip.it/iIR1N Related articles Difficult Texts Boost … Continue reading Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain
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Mind reading is possible! - Salon.com By Kathleen Taylor, salon.com Advances in neuroimaging suggest telepathy could be on the horizon. It’s time to consider how we’d use it “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Eric Schmidt, CE… RT @Salon: Neuroimaging … Continue reading Big data is making social science truly predictive
#cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on Rudy Rucker Elliot Harmon, creativecommons.org Cory Doctorow / NK Guy / CC BY-SAIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow writes about the… #cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on … Continue reading Rudy Rucker by Cory Doctorow
Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably … Continue reading The reason societies become less productive with industrialization
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Big Ass Fans Haiku | Popular Science popsci.com A cool breeze without the noise. With its residential Haiku model, Big Ass Fans changed every convention established by a century of ceiling-fan design. That hot, loud, electromagnet-driven AC motor is now a cool, quiet, permanently… http://flpbd.it/QWXuw Related articles How to Add Humor to Your Website (zemanta.com) … Continue reading Big ass fans: A cool breeze without the noise
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The Year’s Best Infographics By Emily Elert, popsci.com The results are in from Information is Beautiful’s first annual award ceremony The design firm Information is Beautiful has announced winners of the inaugural Information Awards Inspired by Kantar competition. Prizes went to … http://flpbd.it/Zh0Nc Related articles The State of Application Security 2012 Infographic (veracode.com) Free Wi-Fi: … Continue reading The Year’s Best Infographics
Why fiction is good for you - Boston.com. New studies show that in fact a steady diet including some fiction is good for us and results in more effective behavior change and learning than non-fiction. This is because of cognitive "shields" we put up when reading non-fiction. Also fiction acts as a social glue to … Continue reading Storytelling and science: how fiction results in more behavior change than non-fiction
Kurt Vonnegut. He was forced to study biochemistry in college, then attempted to obtain his MA in anthropology however his thesis was rejected as too far out. later when he published books, U Chicago gave him the MA, citing his anthropological style of writing! The world is poorer without him. Related articles Love Letter to … Continue reading Kurt Vonnegut: an anthropologist and futurist
The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere. Narrative Science . Related articles Could algorithms replace writers? (raventools.com) We've sold … Continue reading Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling
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