Is this the worst ever infographic? As data visualisation has grown more and more popular it has become more likely that among the brilliant examples of how to display numbers there are also going to be some naff ones.
Using Social Media in Jobhunting. Social media and networking sites can be used for careers research, job seeking and to market yourself to future employers as well as sorting out your social life – something that many students and graduates are surprisingly unaware of.
In a recent survey by SHL, less than 40% of graduates said they would consider marketing themselves to recruiters online. This means that the other 60% are missing the opportunity to present themselves in a positive light and use social media to help them get a job There are different sites for professional networking and for social networking – your Facebook profile may not present you to employers in the best possible light! According to a study by CareerBuilder.co.uk 55% of employers who researched job applicants on social media claim they found something that caused them not to hire the applicant.
Stories of recruiters checking out potential candidates via Facebook are largely exaggerated (most recruiters don’t have the time or staff to do this!) Top 30 funny people to follow on Twitter. 27 Middle-Class Problems. Importance of Social Media for Finding New Opportunities. The Noun Project. How to delete your digital life. Wiping away your digital life means getting rid of the traces you've left – the mistakes you made, the embarrassing photos, the unwise comments, the flawed social media profiles where you've left too much visible.
But how easy is that? The following steps provide a start to reducing your digital footprint and taking back control of your online life. 1) If you have a Facebook account, change every setting in the Privacy tabs to "private" or "not shared" or "off" (there's a special "privacy settings" shortcut in the blue bar near the top). 2) Find out what photos you're tagged in on Facebook. These should appear in the Photos tab on the left hand side. 3) If you have a Google Blogger account, delete your profile there. 4) If you've got a Tumblr or Wordpress blog, delete that too. Now start using a search engine, and begin searching on your name (put the first name and surname together in quotes; this works in pretty much all search engines to identify that as a phrase you're after). What is the point of twitter? This week we took the plunge and made our official @YorkPsychology twitter stream public by featuring it on the departmental home page.
I can imagine some of my colleagues are wondering what the point of twitter is, or indeed whether it has one. If you are similarly puzzled, you might want to start by reading this gentle introduction by Prof Dorothy Bishop or @deevybee as she is known on twitter. Dorothy’s post explains how twitter works and has lots of great tips if you’re interested in giving it a go. However, I know that many people will think the whole thing sounds pointless. PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator.
Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship. Bill Gates: My 13 favorite talks. Prime Numbers Get Hitched. In 1972, the physicist Freeman Dyson wrote an article called “Missed Opportunities.” In it, he describes how relativity could have been discovered many years before Einstein announced his findings if mathematicians in places like Göttingen had spoken to physicists who were poring over Maxwell’s equations describing electromagnetism. The ingredients were there in 1865 to make the breakthrough—only announced by Einstein some 40 years later. It is striking that Dyson should have written about scientific ships passing in the night. Shortly after he published the piece, he was responsible for an abrupt collision between physics and mathematics that produced one of the most remarkable scientific ideas of the last half century: that quantum physics and prime numbers are inextricably linked. This unexpected connection with physics has given us a glimpse of the mathematics that might, ultimately, reveal the secret of these enigmatic numbers.
Top five regrets of the dying. There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps.
A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. Three faces of feminism: Louise Mensch, Laurie Penny, and Jodie Marsh « Libertarian Lou's Blog. Last night, two white middle-class women – Conservative MP Louise Mensch, and left-wing activist Laurie Penny – sat on BBC Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman, discussing Louise Mensch’s article in the Guardian, about whether you could be a feminist and also a Tory.
Exciting stuff, I think you’ll agree. The Von Trapp Children Speak to a Geneticist. Auntyemily. Profile For Hamilton Richardson: Reviews. The Contemplative Mammoth. I notice it all the time– on Facebook, in the comments of a science blog, over family gatherings, or listening to a radio talk show.
Someone, maybe you, is patiently trying to explain how vaccines cause autism, perhaps, or why so-called “anthropogenic” global warming is really just due to sunspots or some other natural cycle.