Tag: World Literature

  • 3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking

    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…

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  • Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain

    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…

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  • Big data is making social science truly predictive

    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…

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  • Why conservatives ignored the data

    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… RT @Salon: On Monday,…

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  • Kurt Vonnegut: an anthropologist and futurist

    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…

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