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I admire creative people – especially the ones who constantly come up with brilliant ideas with seemingly little effort. It turns out more of us possess the potential for creative thinking than we give ourselves credit for. Do your best ideas come to you in the middle of the night or first thing in the [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you’re probably already well-acquainted with my views on what should happen in the wake of the shooting spree that massacred 20 children and 6 educators at a suburban elementary school in Newton, Connecticut. This post, however, will build on my previous analysis of the Wikipedia article about the [...]
As all the people and computers on our planet get more and more closely connected, it’s becoming increasingly useful to think of all the people and computers on the planet as a kind of global brain. THOMAS W. MALONE is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and [...]
A new celestial wonder has stolen the title of most distant object ever seen in the universe, astronomers report. The new record holder is the galaxy MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away. The universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so this galaxy’s light has been traveling toward us for almost [...]
See on Scoop.it – Mind, Body & Soul A century ago, the design of 21st-century man was unimaginable to anyone but sci-fi writers, and even they didn’t go far enough. No one foresaw a species able to prevent pregnancy with a pill. Or able to snake a wire up an artery to restore bloodflow. No [...]
Fall Leaves: "Ideal Conditions" Seen for Foliage in U.S.. Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News Published October 3, 2012 There may be one upside to the United States’ dry summer—a brilliant fall leaves season, especially in the Northeast. Enjoying the Autumn colors from the balmy, tropical in Miami… love seeing the photography of the Fall [...]
At The Market Research Event (TMRE) Orlando last year, I gave a presentation covering the history of Data Visualization going from its known origins to some of today’s best practices (my top 10). In case you missed them, the top 10 visualizations I covered in the presentation were: word clouds, phrase net diagrams, word trees, [...]
The pursuit of happiness is as old as modern civilization. Books, elixers, religions, and philosophies are all devoted to it. Happiness is a quest, an obsession, and a universal aspiration. But what does it take to be unhappy? In some ways, it’s easier than happiness itself. New research and much life experience offers a simple [...]
Tom George: The darkness of the night made it difficult to see the enormous waves which crashed into the side of the hull practically ripping it to shreads. As the small vessel began to sink. The occupant’s began to give themselves the injections. The water was cold but not life threatening, hopefully there would be [...]
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