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Amazing Ayumu
Amazing Ayumu Ayumu is amazing. Numbers 1-9 flash across a screen for 210 milliseconds, less time than it takes the human eye to scan across the screen, before turning into white squares. Ayumu reaches out and touches each white box in the correct numerical order. The rest of Koyoto University’s subjects get the order right… Continue reading →
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The Problem With Speed-Reading
Do you tend to scan or speed-read through material to figure out what it’s all about? Go straight to the Executive Summary, then stop? You might be saving time, but you may be missing out on some of the most interesting content. In the 2001 DNA-sequencing race between the the government and Craig Venter’s Celera Genomics, victory was declared… Continue reading →
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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D__Qx4Bsotg Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” The Lakewood District inspiring Wordsworth’s daffodil poem delivers the classic as a rap remix 200 years later, hoping to inspire a new generation to see what the fuss is about (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Now Let’s Talk About Me…
Imagine this newsletter I received today. Nine bullet-pointed links Five points start with the company name Three more continue the hard sell, but manage to refrain from mentioning the name A final point mentioning a recently-released study may be of interest to their target audience, but by this point it’s obvious where this item will be headed as well If… Continue reading →
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To make our communications more effective…
To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from “What information do I need to convey?” to “What questions do I want my audience to ask? Chip and Dan Heath, Made To Stick
