An discussion about the relationship between anthropology and enthnography raises the question of how to clearly define the discussion and knowledge of people’s.History is a sequencing of events, a kind of cause and effect, that is the inevitable outcome of trying to understand the pattern of events that is defined by a period. Yet history [...]
Text while driving? Thought everyone did. That’s cause I’ve got my head down texting….uh-huh. clipped from www.marketingcharts.com 26% of Mobile Users Text While Driving Despite an increasing number of state bans on driving while texting (DWT) and numerous reports of texting-related accidents, more than one-fourth (26%) of US mobile-phone users send and/or receive text messages [...]
Here’s an educational film from the 1940′s on how banks work. Everything seemed so simple. The funny thing is, every bank transaction was somehow related to money that was actually IN THE BANK! clipped from www.lifehackingmovie.com You 2.0 A documentary on life hacking Over the past few days I’ve been going through lots of archival [...]
A really fascinating analysis of home run hitting relative to different variables: height, weight, age, pitch location, etc. clipped from www.feedly.com Next up I graphed standard distance against a batter’s weight. It’s a standard assumption that heavier players have more raw power. And even though listed player weights are some of the more unreliable baseball [...]
This is a powerful use of graphics and information to give a near real-time vision of the local stress being driven by the economic slowdown. While broad swathes of the country are experiencing relatively light stressors, high population areas along the coasts and the industrial midwest are under tremendous pressures. clipped from www.feedly.com Source: AP [...]
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From The Given Day by Dennis Lehane: They had a few more drinks and Ruth had to say he’d never seen a couple so in love. They barely touched, and it wasn’t like they got all gooey on each other, talked to each other in baby voices and called each other “dumpling” or anything. Even [...]
With the onslaught of stimulus baked into modern life, the constant persuasion of the public dialogue and the desire of each one of us to assess others for their fitness in our tribe, we experience constant pressure on our identity. The work of becoming an adult in modern America is to integrate identity into action, [...]
This is really neat. Simple, clear, and something that was a tightly defined information experience before the videonet….