Tag: World Literature

3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management

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…

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Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

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.

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Big data is making social science truly predictive

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

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 ?rst place.” Eric Schmidt, CE…

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Why conservatives ignored the data

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

10 right-wingers who got the election hilariously wrong – Salon.com
By AlterNet Staff„ salon.com

So much for hunches and gut instincts. Maybe in 2016, these would-be pollsters will read Nate Silver like adults

We real­ly had a con­test between the reality-based com­mu­ni­ty, and a con­ser­v­a­tive move­ment that had con­vinced itself that…

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Kurt Vonnegut: an anthropologist and futurist

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy
Kurt Vonnegut speaking at Case Western Reserve...
Kurt Vonnegut speaking at Case Western Reserve University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

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