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Watch my good friend from high school, Martha Farlow, roast music legend John Legend for 7 minutes. I remember learning about self-esteem maintenance in social psych sophomore year, and the idea of “bask in reflected glory”. This basically means you associate yourself with successful people, how the successes of others (friends, colleagues, sports teams) increases your own self-esteem by association. Of course, this only works if you’re not in competition for the same things. But anyway, this random psych digression is just another way of explaining how proud I am of knowing Martha and of all her awesome achievements :]
Creative America Disability Association Advertisement: For some It’s Mt everest Help build more handicap facilities - Yaratıcı Amerika Engelliler Derneği Reklamı: Bazıları için bu Everest Dağıdır. Daha fazla engelli olanakları oluşturmamıza yardımcı olun.
I LOVE this. Creative advertising for a good cause.
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The Life of an Internet Meme, by me.
So, so true! And how do you even respond, without sounding way too much of a snob, that you’ve already seen something that your family/friend/relative posts or emails you, all excitedly? Or do you keep silent and respond just as enthusiastically if you’d never seen it before? Haha.
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Social networking sites give us portals into another person’s (user’s) mind, so far as that person (user) makes public their thoughts, ideas, feelings and desires. At times, we are perhaps more honest online, and especially on social networks, than we are in real life.
I am pretty certain that we can all think of a few people where there seems to be a contradiction from their introverted persona in real live to their eager to share persona online. This article looks at several recent psychology studies that help explain our ability to speak freely online.
“When the medium is impersonal, people are prepared to be personal.”
Very interesting. I feel like how I “speak” online has changed dramatically since I first began getting familiar with the networks and platforms. How people speak differs so drastically from age group to gender to lifestyles to careers, … etc. I’d love to read more research on this kind of stuff
The Flying Baby Series, Mother Photographs Her Baby Boy Flying
Coolest mom ever. I’m loving these ‘flying/floating’ photo galleries of late. I wonder when (or if!) any brands are going to be incorporating techniques like these into print ads… it’d definitely catch my eye.
Writer James Bradley’s wonderful essay on the links, both real and mythologized, between mental health and creativity. A highly recommended read.
For, while I could make sentences again, form ideas, write coherently and persuasively, the deeper impulse that had led me to write in the first place, that oddly compulsive need to find words to contain and express the things I felt, was gone.
-James Bradley
This photo collection of mugshots from the 1910’s – 1930s in Australia is amazing. They don’t take mugshot portraits like they used to!
Seriously! History for ya
Kurt Perschke’s Red Ball Project.
I feel like the line between art installations and guerilla marketing campaigns are getting blurrier and blurrier- both intended to make a person stop on the street and think.
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Do you want to know how that applicant you just interviewed will actually perform on the job? Check out her Facebook profile.
That’s the advice of a new study from the Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville and Auburn University. The researchers recruited a group of four Facebook-savvy human resources professionals and students to evaluate the Facebook profiles of 56 users. The four perused each of the profiles for about 10 minutes each before grading them according to the so-called Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism).
Six months later, the researchers compared the evaluations of the 56 users’ work supervisors and found a strong correlation for traits including intellectual curiosity, agreeability and conscientiousness. The evalauations are, of course, subjective, but job seekers shouldn’t necessarily worry that they need to clean up their Facebook profile.
» via Mashable
Social media research? I could get on board with that.
The James Webb Space Telescope may someday put Hubble out of business, but until then NASA’s old standby is still making new discoveries. Today, that comes to us in the form of the first exoplanet “waterworld”—a water-covered planet shrouded by a dense, steamy atmosphere, the first confirmed planet of its kind.
The planet, known as GJ1214b, was discovered in 2009 by ground-based observations. But at that time it was difficult to glean much from the data other than the fact that the planet was indeed out there orbiting a red dwarf and is roughly 2.7 times Earth’s diameter. But its nearness to its star—just 1.3 miles away—meant that scientists could be reasonably sure it is hot there, likely around 450 degrees.
» via Popular Science
Whoa. Once in a while I come across articles/discoveries like this and I spend the next ten minutes or so pondering how big the universe really is, and how inconsequential everything I worry about is, in comparison. And then I realize I’m late for something or need to get back to work.
