A color-coded map of the world’s most and least emotional countries. By Max Fisher November 28, 2012 A map of the world's countries by most and least emotional.
Click to enlarge. (Max Fisher) Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their daily emotional experience. Their survey asks five questions, meant to gauge whether the respondent felt significant positive or negative emotions the day prior to the survey. Gallup has tallied up the average "yes" responses from respondents in almost every country on Earth. Singapore is the least emotional country in the world. Shakespeare Theatre Company’s whirlwind of a Bottom spins ‘Midsummer’ for laughs. These mechanicals, spurred on by the priceless Bruce Dow, playing a Nick Bottom so self-dramatizing he seems not only to be chewing the scenery but also picking tiny splinters of it out of his gums, provide one of the funniest “Pyramus and Thisbes” I’ve ever seen.
And I’ve seen plenty: easily two dozen, and maybe even three. Cash-strapped millennials curate style via social media. Millennials are foregoing the traditional consumer-brand relationship, leaving brands scrambling to reclaim their influence.
By embracing tech, social media, millennials are changing the retail landscape, experts sayMillennials favor shopping based on "what's interesting to them," Copious founder saysFrugality, loyalty to brands with social agendas characterize their habits, experts sayMillennial says she puts her own twist on popular trends: "More than anything, it's about the look" This is Scary: Scientists find a way to erase frightening memories. Blind as a Batman. Www.cesmes.fi/pallo.swf. Chair floats to final frontier. Space ballooning hits new heights in an HDTV commercial showing a simple armchair floating against the backdrop of our curving planet, almost 100,000 feet above the ground.
When you watch the video, the first thought that comes to mind is, "Wow, that's cool! " And the second thought is probably, "How the heck did they do that? " "Usually a project like this takes a year or a year and a half to pull together," John Powell, founder of California-based JP Aerospace and one of the key guys behind the Space Chair Project, told me. "But they needed this pulled together in four months. " "They" refers to Toshiba UK and Grey London, the marketing agency that pulled off the project.
Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends. How many words in the English language never make it into dictionaries?
How has the nature of fame changed in the past 200 years? How do scientists and actors compare in their impact on popular culture? These are just some of the questions that researchers and members of the public can now answer using a new online tool developed by Google with the help of scientists at Harvard University. The massive searchable database is being hailed as the key to a new era of research in the humanities, linguistics and social sciences that has been dubbed "culturomics". The database comprises more than 5m books – both fiction and non-fiction – published between 1800 and 2000, representing around 4% of all the books ever printed.
"Interest in computational approaches to the humanities and social sciences dates back to the 1950s," said Michel, a psychologist in Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. The team also investigated the changing nature of fame over the past two centuries. How the internet is changing language. 16 August 2010Last updated at 10:01 By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News 'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang.
But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed? 'Hint Fiction' Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story. Wmshc_kiwi via Flickr Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or FewerBy Robert SwartwoodPaperback, 188 pagesW.W.
NortonList price: $13.95 Can you tell a whole story in 25 words or fewer? Inspired by the six-word novel attributed to Ernest Hemingway — "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" — Robert Swartwood has compiled a new anthology of bite-sized fiction. The stories in Hint Fiction are short enough to be text messages, but the genre isn't defined only by its length. Take Joe Schreiber's story, titled Progress:After seventeen days she finally broke downand called him "Daddy. " The short stories in Hint Fiction were selected from more than 2,000 submissions — Swartwood started small, soliciting stories on his website, but the contest grew in scope when publisher W.W. In a wired world, children unable to escape cyberbullying. Teens speak out about bullying Cyberbullying occurs when harassment or cruel comments are made in cyberspace About 20 percent of children have experienced cyberbullying or been the bully, survey says Some states have passed laws to address problem, but courts still have to catch up, experts say NIH study: Cyberbullying causes higher levels of depression than face-to-face bullying Editor's note: Bullying is in our schools, and it's online.
