Discover the history of tv presentation & graphic design. Encyclopedia Mythica: Areas. You are here: These are the areas which are currently available in the Encyclopedia Mythica.
Click on one of the links below or use the quick-jump menu on the right to directly go to the area of your choice. Mythology The mythology area is divided in 6 geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Special areas: Other mythologies and All mythologies. Folklore Folklore from all over the world, including cryptozoology. Bestiary A bestiary with legendary and mythical creatures. Heroes The most famous heroes and heroines from many cultures, among which Greek, Japanese, and Norse. Image gallery Hundreds of images of deities, heroes, and creatures from many mythologies. Genealogy The genealogy tables of various pantheons and prominent Houses. Featured items Area with various interesting mythology and folklore related items, such as Witchcraft and the Arabian Nights.
Profiles of the 16 Myers Briggs Personality Types. The concept of personality types is almost as old as humans themselves.
For as long as we can remember, we've been anxious to sort people into categories: he's a phlegmatic type; she's a Type A; he's a Director; she's a narcissist. There are lots of systems for typing people, some more useful than others. We've found the system that's most versatile is that developed by Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers, based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung. Using Jung's text Psychological Types, Briggs and Myers outlined sixteen different types, based on four dimensions of personality. Although they devised their system over 50 years ago, the concepts overlap nicely with the findings of contemporary personality science. If you do not know your type, no problem!
Thinking styles. The following is edited and adapted from It is intended to supplement personal understanding and enhance critical self-examination of yourself as a communicator.
Styles of Thinking "How do people think about things? " Harrison and Bramson, through their research detailed in their text The Art of Thinking, found that in Western society there are five distinct styles of thinking. 10 Myths About Introverts. Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog. Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever - Music. A British band and a group of scientists have made the most relaxing tune in the history of man, an Mp3 of which is at the bottom of this article.
Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay. Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. How to speak with an Irish accent. Ready to learn how to speak with an Irish accent in English?
You may also enjoy my article about how to speak Irish (Gaeilge). Check out the most popular posts on the right for other topics you may find interesting, and subscribe to the blog for some unconventional language hacking tips! Ah English, you have such a wide range of dialects that can cause many hilarious confusions! I nearly got fired once for innocently suggesting that my 13 year old Mathematics students in New York “openly share rubbers without asking permission” (Rubber to me is an eraser to them, but in USA it’s a condom). And, at first, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what my blogger friends were talking about when they said they wanted to dominate a “nitch”. In Ireland we are lucky enough to be exposed to quite a lot of different versions of English thanks to television/cinema/literature. Common Irish Phrases.
The great thing about Modern Irish Gaelic orthography is that it doesn't present the complete beginner with any really nasty surprises, once he/she has mastered a few very simple rules.
It may look very odd on the screen at first (particularly to someone whose only language is English) but it really does match reasonably closely the sounds it is meant to represent! Here are some of the commonest sounds a beginner needs to tackle first: á is pronounced as in English word "drawl" é is pronounced as in English word "say" í is pronounced as in English word "see" ó is pronounced as in English word "home" ú is pronounced as in English word "too"
Brave New Worldview – 30 Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century - Row Three. A decade into the 21st Century and we have arrived at the future.
The promise of Tomorrow. But instead we have looming energy crises, endless middle east conflict and more disappointing, we have no flying cars, Heck, for all the bright and clean future promised in 2001: A Space Odyssey, none of the real companies used as brands in the film even exist anymore. Even moving from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, nobody makes DeLoreans (although they occasionally sell on Ebay), but cloning and tablet computing (as promised by Star Trek: The Next Generation) have more or less come to pass in this century.
It is not the gizmos or the distopian aesthetics, that have brought Science Fiction into the new millennium, but the questions it asks of people or society in a future time or place and how they reflect on our own times.