pop-culture
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Peyton Manning Just Taught Us a Lesson in Creative Leadership, and You Missed It
The contrast between Peyton Manning and Cam Newton is striking and holds a very significant lesson in creative team leadership.
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Brain Fitness Tips To Improve Concentration And Memory in 2016
Attention and memory are two crucial mental skills and are directly related. Here are some tips to improve both.
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Jane McGonigal on How Video Games Can Make Us SuperBetter (Podcast)
Bestselling author, video game designer, and TED talk superstar Jane McGonigal stops by to discuss her research on the positive effects of gaming. Jane is a goldmine of science-backed information on how games can fight depression and PTSD, encourage creativity and help to achieve real world goals.
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The “Facebook Eye”: On Remedying the Alienation of Modern Life
Is Facebook changing the way we see the world?
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The Culture of Precaution
Are all risks worth avoiding?
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Interstellar, Science & Fantasy
A look at the movie Interstellar in the context of science classes and genre classification issues.
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You Are What You Listen To
Why heavy metal and classical fans may be more alike than they think.
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Why “Dressgate”* Matters
It’s not about the dress – it’s about visual perception and human cognition.
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Lessons from the Dress: the Fundamental Ambiguity of Visual Perception
Vision is fundamentally ambiguous—but usually not this ambiguous.
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Is Lumosity Just An Intelligence Test?
Irony: Brain games don't increase intelligence, but measure intelligence?
