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CNN.com Live - Breaking news, live events, and today's top stories. Forum | Yttrandefrihet på riktigt! 8 Educational Instagram Accounts Any College Student Should Follow. When used correctly, any social network can become a great educational asset rather than an unintelligent distraction. You’re on those social networks a lot anyways, so why not make the best of them? But doing that means finding the right people to follow. Depending on your interests, that may be more difficult than it sounds. There are so many people and organizations on them, it’s hard to pick out the good ones from a sea of choices. To get you started, take a look at these eight great accounts any Instagraming college student should follow. NASA Goddard If you love research and space, following the NASA Goddard account is a must. Mars Curiosity Rover The Mars Curiosity Rover has its own Instagram account!

While you won’t be seeing any Martian skyscrapers in those images, who can help but nerd out a little about images from a different planet, even if it’s all just red dust? National Geographic National Geographic is another perfect account that students of all disciplines can follow. Anonymous email. Influence - The psychology of persuasion. 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think. Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to save money?) Might be an economist, but he wants to talk about language. For instance, he points out, in Chinese, saying “this is my uncle” is not as straightforward as you might think. In Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger.

“All of this information is obligatory. This got Chen wondering: Is there a connection between language and how we think and behave? While “futured languages,” like English, distinguish between the past, present and future, “futureless languages” like Chinese use the same phrasing to describe the events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. But that’s only the beginning. Featured illustration via iStock. BuzzFeed. Quote of the Day. Böcker om manipulation och övertalning? TED: Ideas worth spreading. Skicka in insändare. CNN.com Live - Breaking news, live events, and today's top stories. Liberala ungdomsförbundets forum. Change.org - The world's platform for change.