Category: Cognitive Science

  • 13 Conferences to attend in 2013

    Jan Wächter, datavisualization.ch We’ve compiled a small list of conferences definitely worth visiting in 2013. Events like this are a great way to see, learn, connect and be inspired. If you’re lucky enough to get a ticket, be sure to let us know so we could meet up and have a… RT @datavis: As if…

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  • Restaurants Turn Camera Shy

    RT @Techmeme: Restaurants Turn Camera Shy (Helene Stapinski / New York Times) http://flip.it/0A1K6 http://flip.it/3O9zY http://flip.it/jJpeX   Related articles Should Restaurants Ban Food Photography? (neatorama.com) IHOP Franchisee Selects DTT for Enterprise-Wide Roll Out (prweb.com) Restaurant Charging $200/Person Has The Gall To Tell Diners They Can’t Take Photos (businessinsider.com) Weekend reads: Restaurant food photos get controversial (mnn.com)…

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  • Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy

    Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy Tomio Geron, forbes.com On paper, Fred­er­ic Lar­son is just one data point in five years of U.S. gov­ern­ment sta­tis­tics show­ing under­em­ploy­ment in dozens of indus­tries and stag­nant income growth across the board. The 63-year-old pho­tog­ra­ph­er with two chil­d… RT @Techmeme: Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of…

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  • Russia had a three-day traffic jam

    Russia had a three-day traffic jam By Sarah Miller, grist.org There was a three-day-long traf­fic jam in Rus­sia over the week­end. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snow­storm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Peters­burg and Moscow. Now, one might think a coun­try… RT @grist: Russia had a…

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  • Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers

    Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers Karl Bates-Duke, futurity.org DUKE (US) — For bonobos, building a social network and making new friends are as valuable as food, say researchers. If you opened a pack of gum while standing in line somewhere, would you give a piece to the coworker standing on one side of……

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  • Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

    Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Megan Garber, theatlantic.com Unless you hap­pen to get some sort of obses­sive com­pul­sive sat­is­fac­tion from keep­ing your inbox in ship­shape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — deal­ing with email has got to be one of the most dead­en­ing aspects of any…

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  • How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing

    How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As mar­keters, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agili­ty. But very few brands were able to mas­ter the art. So is agile mar­ket­ing a myth? A lot of brands strug­gle with agili­ty in mar­ket­ing: think­ing on…

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  • 4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research

    4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research By Brian Millar, fastcodesign.com Fast, cheap, and out-of-control insights can help you to outsmart the competition. Here’s how to gather them. A few years ago, I got to part­ner up with one of the world’s best ad cre­atives, Steve Henry. We spent the morn­ing work­ing on a brie……

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  • Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics

    Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anony­mous com­ments online real­ly do stay anony­mous, it’s prob­a­bly wise to start using leet­s­peak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com)…

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  • 10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter

    10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even…

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