Author: Lloyd Morgan
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Time Lapse: Magazine Page Design
You’ve likely seen this time lapse video of a magazine page being designed before: Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. Anyone who’s designed a magazine will recognise the process — a very useful insight into how page designs get arrived at. via Kottke
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Radiohead – House of Cards
The Official Google Blog on the making of Radiohead’s latest music video; House of Cards: In this new video, there were no cameras on set. Instead, two scanning technologies were used to capture 3D images. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produced structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne LIDAR system that…
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Let Jesus Protect This Powerpoint
Yes, that is a real quote. It’s from Jesus Camp, an incredibly interesting—yet infuriating and disturbing—documentary recording the indoctrination of North Dakotan children to Evangelical Christianity. I just had to search for The Creation Adventure Team after I saw a child watching the show in the film and came across this 3 minute segment –…
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10 Psychological ‘Mind’ Myths
PsyBlog presents 10 psychological ‘mind’ myths that can catch you out: We Don’t Only Use 10% of Our Brains Blind People’s Other Senses are Not More Acute Why Psychology is Not Just Common Sense The Attitude-Behaviour Gap: Why We Say One Thing But Do The Opposite Newborns Don’t Bond Immediately with their Mothers (or Within…
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Suicide and Media Coverage
The British Medical Journal has an article that I’ve spoken of numerous times lately (IRL), discussing how media coverage of suicides affects the rate of similar suicides. There is clear evidence that the media may affect method specific suicide rates. In Britain an excess of about 60 suicides by burning occurred in the 12 months…
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Maciej Dakowicz
I’ve no idea how to pronounce his name, but Maciej Dakowicz’s photography speaks to me on a more… local level. Now living in Cardiff, his Cardiff at night set depicts wonderfully(?) what is to be expected on a Friday or Saturday night out in Cardiff. This video is also quite enlightening. Homepage Flickr Update: The…
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Manufacturing Consent With Fallacies
Scientific American’s Getting Duped: How the Media Messes With Your Mind educates us on two important fallacies used to undermine arguments. Statements made in the media can surreptitiously plant distortions in the minds of millions. Learning to recognize two commonly used fallacies can help you separate fact from fiction. […] One common method of spinning…
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The Flynn Effect and Our Declining IQs
The Flynn Effect is the gradual rise of the average IQ over generations, and the reason why IQ tests are periodically renormalised to reset the average to 100: an average IQ in our generation equals a higher than average IQ a generation or two beforehand. Or does it? According to new research it appears that…
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Understanding and Reducing Suicide
Discussing an article in The New York Times on understanding and reducing suicide rates, Mind Hacks’ Vaughan presents us with some other interesting research on the topic. If you want a flavour of really how simple the safety measures need to be to make a difference to suicide rate, research has found that putting pills…
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What’s Your Sign Name?
BBC Ouch! on the strange gift of sign language names. When a sign name is given to you, it’s special. A bit like losing your deaf virginity. It’s thought up after an intense period of observation, when people have worked out firstly whether they like you enough to give you one (a sign name, that…