psychology
What does it mean to be creative? Paid Members Public
Compelling exploration of how creative minds function [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/12/24/the-messy-minds-of-creative-people/] : > As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead
The celebrity, everyone's social media pseudo-friend Paid Members Public
Interesting exploration of the pseudo-relationships with celebrities that social media enables [http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/rihanna-doesnt-give-a-crap-about-you]: > Spitzberg describes how a fan might respond to something like a celebrity tweet and then, days later, see an unrelated tweet from the same celebrity and read meaning into it because they’
Naming that GoPro tune Paid Members Public
If you watch a number of GoPro-type extreme sports videos, you’re probably deeply familiar with this track: This tune is indelibly marked in my head as the “Le Web tune”, because as I sit in the main stage area, finishing liveblog posts, high-energy GoPro videos are often playing with
The three paths of grief Paid Members Public
There's many paths through grief, but none of them are easy.
Matter: is its long-form science journalism worth reading? Paid Members Public
How is Kickstarted long-form science journalism startup Medium performing? Pretty well, so far…
The psychology - and neurochemistry - of social media Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/twitter-crack.jpg] Absolutely fascinating look at the neuroscience that underlies behaviour patterns on Twitter [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-selfish-meme/309080/] and other forms of social media: > Researchers have previously shown that certain online activities–
Allister Frost: Noble marketing through brain hacking? Paid Members Public
*Liveblog: open to error, inaccuracies and howling typos*** ** [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/allister-frost.jpg] Allister Frost, managing director, Wild Orange Media [http://www.wildorangemedia.com] Have we ever been to Go Ape [http://goape.co.uk]? He has. And he’s talking about
The Zeitgeist Project: The Curators Objectify Paid Members Public
To conclude The Zeitgeist Project Berlin, the eight curators who talked previously returned to the stage to pitch us on their choice of object that best represented the cultural zeitgeist. This is what they picked: Simon Waterfall The one speaker that frightened the life out of him was the Google
