Tag: interesting
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How to Be Interesting
Russell Davies offers ten activities that will lead to you being more interesting; including Start a blog, Keep a scrapbook, and Read. I believe you can sum them up into one piece of advice: Do something. Davies compiled the ten activities, believing they will make a person more interesting, based on two assumptions. However I believe the two assumptions…
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Seven Psychological Principles Con Artists Exploit
Inherent human vulnerabilities need to be taken into account when designing security systems/processes, suggests a study that looks at a dozen confidence tricks from the UK TV show The Real Hustle to determine recurring behavioural patterns con artists use to exploit victims. The study was a collaboration between Frank Stajano of the University of Cambridge…
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Language Incomprehensibility Flowchart (It’s All Greek To Me)
Language Log was asked; When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word one says, it’s “Greek to me”. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it “sounds like Chinese”. […] Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph? To answer the query, Mark Liberman checks…
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Conversations with Charlie Rose
The archives of Charlie Rose are available on the official website and this past weekend I watched these excellent conversations: An excellent talk on technology and innovation with Marc Andreessen, a man with impressive Valley credentials: co-founder of Ning, co-author of Mosaic, founder of Netscape, investor in Digg and Twitter, and board member of Facebook…
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The Evolution of Language
Bartleby, the free (as in beer) ‘Internet publisher’, has available a fascinating graphic depicting the evolution of language (all those stemming from the single Proto-Indo-European language, anyway). Now I know the historic route of my native tongue (as opposed to my cradle tongue), Welsh: it’s closest ‘relatives’ are Cornish and Breton (in that order) as…
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The Millionaire and the Squatter
Originally an idea for “professional philanthropic development”, Michael—a multi-millionaire who’s giving away $78m over a 10 year period—lived with a homeless Chicago man for one weekend. Freakonomics covers the story in Michael, Meet Curtis: Philanthropy Gets Personal. Curtis cooked another plate of chicken and beans. He was about to eat it, but once again he…