technology will kill .....

wrist watches - your mobile has the time


paperback books - e book readers


instruction manuals - how to videos


car keys - engine stop/start buttons


greeting cards


credit/debit cards - touch n go chips


memo pads - on your mobile


maps - on your mobile


alarm clocks - on your mobile


cash - touch n go chips


smartless phones


classes - on line education (& traditional homework PLUS education inequality?)


newspapers


dvd


broadcast tv & terrestrial radio


cheque books - paypal


paper cv - linked in


mail order catalogues/electronic stores - amazon


discount coupons - groupon


boring planes - wifi


tollbooth operators - wireless transfer


petrol stations - electric cars


privacy?


leaders?


via pm phillips

5 things every presenter needs to know about people

5 things every presenter needs to know about people from weinschenk on vimeo.
via brain pickings


1) people learn best in 20-minute chunks - so try and build breaks/activities in to break up longer presentations.


2) multiple sensory channels compete - during a talk, you engage the auditory and visual channels — because we’re visual creatures the visual channel trumps the auditory.  so make sure your slides don’t require people to read much. put together tlak 1st then see what slides (not your notes) need


3) what you say is only one part of your presentation - the audience is responding to your body language and tone very quickly


4) if you want people to act, you have to call them to action. At the end of your presentation, be very specific about exactly what you would like your audience to do. People imitate your emotions and feel your feelings.


5) people imitate your emotions - smiling - energetic - so if you’re passionate about your topic, this excitement will be contagious for the audience. Don’t hold back.

artificial heart

heart stop beating | jeremiah zagar from focus forward films on vimeo.


via the atlantic

museum of obsolete objects - compact cassette

digital junkie - information overload

amazon yesterday shipping

via laughing squid

the art of pricing - setting & advertising

found via big think which draws from lee eisenberg, author of shoptimism: why the american consumer will keep on buying no matter what.  In summary

- the words "only" or "just" in front of a price in an advert will tip the balance in persuading an otherwise frugal person to buy.

- words that suggest reasons for why something might be useful - "101 uses," or, "buy one for a picnic; buy one to keep in the refrigerator; buy one for your car" or "buy 2 get 1 free" move us from the intention of buying one towards buying many

- offering different versions of an item - high price item with lots of features, a basic model with less features and one priced in-between, to sway us to buy the mid priced item - its called the good, better, best strategy.

- in shop displays placing lower priced (but maybe still expensive) items around a high priced very well lit and  presented item  - its called the halo effect - relieves us of some of the guilt that might be attached to buying something we really didn't need  - "well at least i didn't get the expensive item"

earth by night

via larry ferlazzo

new york times clippings & photo archive (the morgue)

via the atlantic

what we want from work - generational differences

found via big think - a study by Mercer's What's Working™ survey, conducted among nearly 30,000 employees in 17 markets worldwide from Q4 2010 to Q2 2011.  in summary

global - "there’s more sameness than difference as we look at what people value."

generationally - millennials - willing to take risk, they care less about safety than they do about opportunity, want learning opportunities, job flexibility, room for growth, almost 1/2 of workers under 25 are seriously considering leaving their job, mindset = equal parts realism and optimism, consistency across the globe, more than previous generations value independence over long term job stability

baby boomers - an emphasis on security and the desire to "protect health and wealth" in meaningful work

If these differences in attitude were simply described as age related then would we find that throughout the post 1960's period young 20 year olds at work have always wanted what millennials are described as wanting now?

values

this article by Tim Leberecht on the world economic forum blog is worth a read.  in summary the points it makes are:

- the current economic crisis has highlighted a broken bond between society and business is broken with some sectors reputations at a low point;

- distribution of wealth is once again under scrutiny;

- some are promoting more collaborative and inclusive approaches to capitalism that value meaning as well as profits (so for example more human oriented organisations with more social exchange, emotional engagement, community involvement, companies that take the long rather than short term view)

- yet some surveys find around 40 to 50% of workers seek new jobs because they don't trust their employer OR have been treated unfairly by them OR report a lack of transparency in internal company communications OR describe their company culture as command and control/top-down (so top down values are often not owned and are frequently difficult to apply at an individual level)

- internet enabled channels like social networks with characteristics like instant feedback, network effects, peer pressure and a general levelling of the field in terms of having a voice might provide an opportunity for more transparency and involvement in business

museum of obsolete objects - typewriter

languages and translation

found via brain pickings

pamela meyer: how to spot a liar

in summary - we are all liars

lying is a cooperative act – its power emerges when somebody else believes it

henry oberlander said “everyone is willing to give you something for whatever it is they are hungry for” - so if you don’t want to be deceived know what it is you are hungry for

lying tries to connect our wishes about who we are to the reality of who we are

studies show:

-        we are lied to 10 to 200 times a day

-        that within the 1^st 10 minutes of meeting a stranger they lie to us 3 times

-       we lie more to strangers than co-workers

-       extroverts lie more than introverts

-       men lie 8x more about themselves than they do others

-       women lie more to protect people

-       if you’re married you’ll lie to your spouse in 1 of 10 every interactions

-       if you’re unmarried that drops to 1 in 3

lying is old as breathing – it’s part of our culture, it has evolutionary value, the gorilla who was taught sign language – Koko – lied

babies will fake a cry, 2 years olds bluff, 5 year olds lie outright and manipulate by flattery, 9 year olds are masters of the cover up - by the time we enter college we lie to out mums in 1 out of 5 interactions

what can we do – most of us get to the truth 54% of the time - trained liespotters get to it 90%

verbal language of liars – formal and distancing language “that women”, qualifying language “to tell you the truth” or “in all candour”,  repeating the question, or too much detail

body language of liars – freeze upper bodies, looking in your eyes too much, smiling too much, (real smile is with mouth and eyes – crows feet not just mouth), duping delight (smile at deception they think they are getting away with)

hot spots – discrepancies between words and actions – so an honest person is going to be cooperative, enthusiastic, helpful in getting to the truth, willing to brainstorm, name suspects, provide details, infuriated throughout session (not just in flashes) if they sense they are wrongly accused

and if you ask them what should happen to those doing wrong they will be much more strict rather than lenient in the punishment they suggest

same conversation with someone deceptive – withdrawn, lower voice, look down, too much irrelevant detail, story in strict chronological order.  trained investigators – in subtle ways – ask for the story backwards – and watch which questions produce most deceptive tells (e.g. verbally say yes but imperceptible head shake no).  Murderers are known to leak sadness.  Contempt – you’ve been dismissed (marked by one lip corner pulled up)

Science also teaches us – liars shift their blink rate, point their feet toward the exit, use barrier objects between them and the interviewer, alter vocal tone – often lower.  

Remember these are behaviours and aren’t proof of deception – so when you see a number of these red flags …..then ask more questions with rapport rather than aggression

after life of a whale

found via the atlantic

creative protest

found via laughing squid


kickstarter page


draft mock ups

what are we losing due to social media

The solitude of Loch Linnhe

A lone sitter at Sgeir na-sean Picnic area by Loch Linnhe.

   © Copyright John Webber and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

from an interview (on the simon mainwaring blog) with Sherry Turkle, professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, and author of the book, Alone Together. 

we are losing

- the ability to tolerate solitude

- the capacity to collaborate (cause we need to bring something to that)

- the ability to be present (cause we're in such a hurry to pass on the experience)

- the ability to lead (and not just poll)

- experience of conversation (as it is replaced with connection)

- experience of showing ourselves - warts and all (as ourselves on social media is polished)

- the art of truly being with each other

shuttle launches

via laughing squid

no. of people per bishop - in england

since before the cofe

and the data since 1870 blown up a bit

c of e bishop numbers data sourced from crockford's clerical directory
and population data sourced from wikipedia

with thanks to sam norton for the suggestion

abridged western music history in 16 genres

via laughing squid

time warped

via explore

attention, emotion and memory and affect our perception of time


more emotion - then time is slower (e.g. a gun to your head)


attention - if we notice something time is slower (e'g' a moving image versus a static image both of same duration - the moving image seems longer because we are noticing it)


memory - if we know something then time seem to go quicker (why the journey there seems longer than the journey back)


so if want time to go slower - more new events and things (so filling with new things for attention which need new memory)


also
- when know you are dying time goes slower because we think about the future less (default brain mode is to think of the future)
- often overestimate how will think about things in the future (good or bad things - because think of immediate and main things)
- bad at estimating how much time in the future we will have (meet next week - no - a year from now - yes)
- good at estimating how much time it will take somebody else to do something 
- so for policy makers - do the thing you need to do early - if good effect will wear off - we will forget if get used to it

st paul's internal 360

is at this site http://www.sphericalimages.com/stpauls/index.html

found via quarentia

robot

via laughing squid

how does the internet work?

via larry ferlazzo

draw a stickman and ....

found at this site (via edwardbgreen)

how many slaves work for you?

find out at this http://slaveryfootprint.org/  site

submarine cable map & infographic on their capacity

at this http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ site

plus a post (from the atlantic) on how they were (are?) tapped

plus an infographic on their capacity

Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

pentecost

via irtiqa

earth

 via the atlantic

virtual reconstruction of second temple

via justin taylor

fire up and sear meat