Professor of Theoretical Physics, CUNY. The Kiss. By Sheril Kirshenbaum A passionate kiss causes our blood vessels to dilate as the brain receives more oxygen than normal. Our cheeks flush, our pulse quickens, and breathing becomes irregular and deepens. Our pupils dilate, which may be the reason so many of us close our eyes. We also activate five of our twelve cranial nerves that spread out intricately to different parts of the face.
The nerve pathways guide the way we interpret the world by helping us see, smell, hear, taste, and touch. On top of that, our lips are associated with a disproportionately large part of the brain. The kiss is a universal language that transcends time and boundaries. How does a kiss work? Kissing keeps our bodies extremely busy interpreting an enormous amount of information as billions of little nerve connections distribute signals to help determine what happens next. Of course, dopamine is only one of many chemicals that guide our emotions during a kiss.
Love isn’t just romantic. How might this work? What's Your Personal Data Worth? By Tim Morey - January 18, 2011 If someone wanted to bid on your personal data, how much would you auction it off for?
At frog, we are seeing lots of business models that depend on analyzing data trails (also known as “digital exhaust”) left by all of us as we navigate our way through the connected world. What we want to know is, how much is each piece of information actually worth. Of course just asking people outright won’t offer much insight— after all, if I asked you, “How much money would you want for your Social Security number?” Or, “What can I give you for your Web browsing history?” The following chart depicts the price at which 50 percent of people would pay to protect a given piece of data. Ten More Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be - Design.
An open letter to the next generation of designers, part II. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of design mind magazine.
Part 1 of this letter was published last week. Here is part 2 and the second 10 things you ought to pay attention to as you build your design career. 1. Never stop learning While I use most of my projects as learning vehicles, I find that this isn’t enough. 2. I was voted most naïve in highschool; as a designer, that means I believe anything is possible. 3. You may think this goes without saying, but I’m not talking about merely having a blog. 4. Know you are good enough now. 5. Join Toastmasters if you must (one of our creative directors did). 6.
The art of “wabi sabi” is knowing there is beauty in the imperfect. 7. Every year, I see the design cycle shrinking. 8. Designers deal with lots of ambiguity.