Personal Growth - Psychology

Artists look different

Posted on: March 15, 2007 11:25 AM, by Dave Munger

These two pictures represent the eye motions of two viewers as they scan a work of art with the goal of remembering it later. One of them is a trained artist, and the other is a trained psychologist. Can you tell which is which?

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How about for this picture?

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News Cellar - Tech Business

Ruling reveals ID of online Oscar ticket seller

By  A P
July 25, 2008

craigslistjpg.jpg LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge's ruling has brought the organization that hosts the Academy Awards a step closer to discovering how tickets to this year's show got online.

An attorney for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that the organization has learned the identity of a person who posted an ad on Craigslist, claiming to have two tickets available for this year's show.

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Personal Growth - Life

Study: 25% of Americans have no one to confide in

Updated 6/22/2006 10:42 PM ET
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY

Americans have a third fewer close friends and confidants than just two decades ago — a sign that people may be living lonelier, more isolated lives than in the past.

In 1985, the average American had three people in whom to confide matters that were important to them, says a study in today's American Sociological Review. In 2004, that number dropped to two, and one in four had no close confidants at all.

"You usually don't see that kind of big social change in a couple of decades," says study co-author Lynn Smith-Lovin, professor of sociology at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

Close relationships are a safety net, she says. "Whether it's picking up a child or finding someone to help you out of the city in a hurricane, these are people we depend on."

Also, research has linked social isolation and loneliness to mental and physical illness.

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News Cellar - Startup / Entrepreneurship

The Perceived Entrepreneur & The Mozart Effect

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Deniz Erkan: Software startup co-founder

December 5, 2007 6:14 p.m.

 

So, who is an entrepreneur? Are you born an entrepreneur and can you become an entrepreneur?

First, a quick look at the history and the meaning of the word across different cultures:
The French economist J.B. Say said around 1800 that "An entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower, into an area of higher productivity and yield". In the United States, entrepreneurs are typically thought of the people who starts his own, new and small business.

Picture It's quite interesting that Germans actually identify the term "Entrepreneur" with power and property, which is even more misleading. The "Unternehmer", the literal translation into German of J.B. Say's "entrepreneur", means a person who owns and runs a business. (the English term would be "owner-manager"). It's actually used to specifically distinguish the owner from the "hired" managers and everybody else for that matter.


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