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Read More »How the Illusion of Being Observed Can Make You a Better Person
Many years ago, when I was still in high school, I was extremely fond of chewing gum, especially during class hours. However, sooner or later the chewing gum would either lose its taste or I would become bored with it.
Read More »Extrasensory Pornception: Doubts About A New Paranormal Claim
Psi, or the paranormal, denotes anomalous psychological effects that are currently unexplained by normal causes.
Read More »Would You Take Business Advice From a College Student?
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Read More »Case Study: When a Competitor Attacks Your Company Online
One morning last January, a franchisee of Nurse Next Door in Edmonton, Alberta, sent an e-mail to company headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. John DeHart, Nurse Next Door's co-founder and co-CEO, clicked on a link in the message, which led to the website of Eldercare, a competing company based in Toronto
Read More »Location Matters When Hiring for Talent
The study: "The Social Attachment to Place," by Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University; and Olav Sorenson, Yale School of Management; published in the journal Social Forces. The finding: Proximity to family and friends is a more important factor than wages when people consider a new job
Read More »How Lasers Can Help Save the World’s Forests
I’ll never forget a conversation I had 15 years ago with paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.
Read More »Polyglots Might Have Multiple Personalities
If you speak multiple languages, you might have multiple personalities.
Read More »How a Business Can Change the World
Start a company. Change the world
Read More »Zynga Goes Global, PopCap Goes Social: Casual Gaming Gets Serious
The casual games space is heating up--and two major acquisitions this week point the way forward. Zynga is poised to go global on a greater scale. This week it announced it had acquired Wonderland Software, a British studio behind a popular mobile game called GodFinger
Read More »The Avatar’s New Clothes
Los Angeles-based startup Styku is chasing the Holy Grail of the online apparel business: making a virtual fitting room that actually works. How they're overcoming the various challenges of apparel software, including the most vexing problem of all--outfitting virtual breasts
Read More »LinkedIn Wants To Help You Name Your New Baby/CEO
LinkedIn, with its database of over a hundred million names, is also an interesting trove of sociological data. Should you give your baby one of the most popular names for CEOs?
Read More »How To Make People Tell The Truth
DIY survey platforms make constructing questionnaires easy, but the results could be biased, contradictory, or deeply misleading. Online surveys often have to compete for attention against the backdrop of Netflix , Gmail alerts, and 25 open browser tabs. The minimal cognitive effort given to answering questions may exacerbate all the problems that lead to biased or outright distorted results.
Read More »How to Fix Your Social Media Past
Not long ago, Holly Myles , the digital media strategist at Eisbrenner Public Relations , attended a work function.
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