Month: May 2007
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Flickrvision
On his brand new blog (check it out it’s rather good) Charles Frith has just posted about Flickrvision, a mash-up of Google Maps with Flickr. Created by the same guy that came up with Twittervision, the Flickr version uses geo-tags to show
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Curious Psychology #2: Positive (and negative) thinking
Second in my occasional series of research studies that have "kept the quirky flag flying" (as picked by Richard Wiseman, Psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire) is this insight from two studies which suggest that the power of the sub-conscious over the
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Real simple
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Curious Psychology
I like quirky. I like offbeat things, quirky reasons why things happen. So does Richard Wiseman, a Psychologist based at the University of Hertfordshire. He’s coined a new discipline he calls ‘Quirkology‘, or "the use of scientific methods to study quirky human
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Alter Ego
How people construct their online identity is an increasingly complex concept for us to understand. So what about the most obvious representation of this – Avatars? When people create their own avatars, are their real lives echoed in their digital alter egos?
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Rebel Rebel
Fascinating little piece (sub reqd) in New Scientist on the inclination we sometimes have to do the exact opposite of what someone wants us to do (like the teenage girl who deliberately goes out with the boy her parents have warned her
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Sustainable Food
This presentation from the Sustainable Food Lab came 3rd in the Slideshare list of great presentations I’ve talked about below. I’m posting it separately not only because it’s a great presentation, but because it deals with such important issues in a pretty
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The World’s best presentation
…according to a panel of gurus put together by Slideshare which includes Guy Kawasaki. This one features some content I’ve seen elsewhere but is pretty slick. As Guy himself points out the winners all have some basic and fairly obvious (but oft
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Art on the roof
To highlight his new exhibition at the Hayward, Antony Gormley, the artist behind the Angel of the North and the hundreds of lifesize figures on Crosby beach (like those above) has positioned 31 lifesize, naked sculptures of himself on vantage points including