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 photos appearing around the world in real time. Amazing how it simultaneously gives…
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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 conscious may be greater than we think. In the first, two dutch psychologists…
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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 behaviour, or quirky methods to probe weightier topics" and has been conducting quirkological…
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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? If you were to create your own virtual character would it be just…
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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 to stay away from). Rather than being just plain contrariness this is actually…
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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 inspiring way. I don’t know what the exact criteria was for winning this…
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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 forgot) things in common: "Big fonts, big graphics, and a storytelling orientation". You…
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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 atop a multitude of buildings all within 1.5 square kilometres of the SouthBank…