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Shared Items from Google Reader- Selling StarsIn 1610, Galileo Galilei published 550 copies of a small book entitled Starry Messenger. In that book Galileo described the observations of the night sky he made with his telescope. Galileo intended Starry Messenger to be more than a book about astronomy. He wanted it to be his ticket out of a teaching position at the University of Padua for a position in Fl […]
- A Tree in JarsAn art installation by Naoko Ito. (...)Read the rest of A Tree in Jars (0 words) No comment Yet Become a Sponsor at Illusion 360 […]
- Tickle Tap AppsMy pal Aaron Leighton (previously) worked with zinc Roe Design to create these fun little iPhone games for little kiddehs. Check out how much fun they’re having: Posted by Luc Latulippe on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | One comment Tags: Animation, children, games, Illustration, kids, preschool […]
- One More Time. Economics = Psychology.Time (1130.09) devotes a column to financial market forecasting, in particular to the wisdom of Robert Prechter. Prechter is a man after my own heart. Psychology and sociology rather than "efficiencies" drive the market: "Prechter argues," says Time, "that standard economic models of financial markets depict prices as reflections ... […]
- Painters and PsychiatryArt and psychiatry is always an interesting combination to me. It has so many perspectives. Does being an artist combine with psychiatric illness, how do they influence each other? To name just a few perspectives. On this blog I regularly post about artists and psychiatry and painters and psychiatry in a broad sense. Can depression as one important psychiat […]
- Early(!) Sleep Enhances Learning by ObservationA new study in PNAS looks at how observation learning is affected by sleep and, more importantly, the relative immediacy of sleep...... Van Der Werf YD, Van Der Helm E, Schoonheim MM, Ridderikhoff A, & Van Someren EJ. (2009) Learning by observation requires an early sleep window. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United St […]
- Brands leave their mark on children's brainsThe idea may be "unpalatable", but companies seeking an edge over their rivals should ensure that children are exposed to their brands as early in life as possible. That's according to Andrew Ellis and colleagues, whose new research shows that the classic "age-of-acquisition" effect in psychology applies to brand names as much as it […]
- Product placements in movies: When they work, and when they don'tProduct placements in movies and TV shows are becoming so commonplace that my kids now cynically take note of them whenever they appear. It wasn't always that way. In 1982 when I first saw E.T. I had no idea that Elliott's use of Reeses' Pieces to lure E.T. into his home was part of a clever marketing ploy that had been pre-arranged with the m […]
- How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce MotivationSurely one of the best ways to generate motivation in ourselves and others is by dangling rewards? Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we've been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometimes they backfire. Spectacularly. Here is a story about p […]
- Economic View - An Echo Chamber of Boom and Bust - NYTimes.comShared by Andy The perceptions of the crowd determine the actual condition of the economy How a worldwide “social epidemic” of ideas is supporting renewed confidence in the economy. […]
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