Color Psychology by David Johnson Like death and taxes, there is no escaping color. It is ubiquitous. Yet what does it all mean? Why are people more relaxed in green rooms? Colors often have different meanings in various cultures. Black Black is the color of authority and power. White Brides wear white to symbolize innocence and purity. Red The most emotionally intense color, red stimulates a faster heartbeat and breathing. The most romantic color, pink, is more tranquilizing. Blue The color of the sky and the ocean, blue is one of the most popular colors. Green Currently the most popular decorating color, green symbolizes nature. Yellow Cheerful sunny yellow is an attention getter. Purple The color of royalty, purple connotes luxury, wealth, and sophistication. Brown Solid, reliable brown is the color of earth and is abundant in nature. Colors of the Flag In the U.S. flag, white stands for purity and innocence. Food for Thought While blue is one of the most popular colors it is one of the least appetizing.
The Fermi Paradox | Wait But Why Everyone feels something when they're in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this: Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour." Physicist Enrico Fermi felt something too -- "Where is everybody?" A really starry sky seems vast -- but all we're looking at is our very local neighborhood. When confronted with the topic of stars and galaxies, a question that tantalizes most humans is, "Is there other intelligent life out there?" As many stars as there are in our galaxy (100 - 400 billion), there are roughly an equal number of galaxies in the observable universe -- so for every star in the colossal Milky Way, there's a whole galaxy out there. So there are 100 Earth-like planets for every grain of sand in the world. But it hasn't. Where is everybody? It gets stranger. 1.
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The Great Perils of Social Interaction If an alien ever immigrated to Earth, he’d be a social disaster. He’d try his hardest to learn by observing how humans behave, but it wouldn’t be easy—he’d see someone ask a stranger for a cigarette and he’d go ask for a sip of someone’s latte. He’d see a couple kissing on the street and he’d go try to kiss the policeman on the corner. Our alien immigrant wouldn’t last a day before being arrested. That’s the way things are—there is an intricate set of thousands of social rules, and we’re all sharply attuned to them. But the hardest part of trying to abide by the Social Rulebook is that it’s far from a perfect book. It takes you to a certain point but then leaves much up to interpretationThere are parts that are outdated or badly thought-out and terribly in need of an AmendmentAnd to further complicate things, every nation, ethnicity, culture, and subculture has its own unique version of the Rulebook It’s the wild fucking west out there. Perils of Interacting With Friends and Family
The Personality Page Your Family: Past, Present, and Future This post was originally published about a year ago. Back with new posts soon. I have one living grandparent—my father’s mother, who’s 89. Nana. I visited Nana recently and went through the usual activities—talking about myself in a loud voice, fixing her “broken machine” by unminimizing the internet browser window, being told to slow down Timothy and get in the left lane, even though the turn is still a half mile ahead. I don’t know you, but I can almost guarantee that you don’t ask your grandparents (or older parents) enough questions about their lives and the lives of their parents. During my visit, Nana referred to herself as “the last of the Mohicans,” meaning basically everyone she spent her life with is dead—her husband, siblings, cousins, and friends are all gone. So on this visit, I started asking questions. She was annoyed. But it only took a couple minutes for her to become absorbed in storytelling, and I spent the next three hours riveted. I knew none of this. Who were they all?
Cognitive Rehabilitation Word Game Quizzes Cognitive rehabilitation can be helped by performing regular cognitive exercises that force the brain to work a little. This simple word game quiz provides just such a workout, but can be done in the non-threatening environment of your home. Since you can download and print the quizzes, they can be used over and over again. Each quiz contains a tracking line if you want to use it to measure progress. Some of the quizzes are more difficult than others, but they all involve finding words or characters and drawing a circle around them. Before you jump down to look at the solution, just take a moment or two to see which words you can find. Download Quizzes for Your Use To use these quizzes, all you need is a computer, a pdf reader and a printer. Click here to download Cognitive Rehabilitation Quiz One. Click here to download Cognitive Rehabilitation Quiz Ten. Click here to download Cognitive Rehabilitation Quiz Twenty. Back to Top of this Page
How to Set Up a Beautiful Blog Today: Step by Step A new year is here. Why not resolve to create something meaningful? Why not start a blog? Creating this blog is one of the best decisions Ryan and I ever made. After all, our blog is how we earn a living. So, let’s say you’ve thought about starting a blog to communicate your thoughts and express your feelings. Since creating this blog three years ago, we’ve garnered an audience of more than 2 million readers, and we’ve learned a lot about blogging along the way. Because we receive so many questions about how we specifically set up our blog, we decided to provide our readers with a soup-to-nuts, comprehensive guide for how to start a blog. Video: Joshua Discusses How to Start a Blog Can’t see the above video? Step-by-Step Instructions: How to Set Up a Blog While there are free blogging platforms out there like Blogger.com and Tumblr.com, nearly every serious blogger uses a self-hosted WordPress site because of its creative freedom and flexibility. Step 1. Step 2. We Use Bluehost. Step 3.
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20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea Well that was weird. I was only in North Korea for five days, but that was more than enough to make it clear that North Korea is every bit as weird as I always thought it was. If you merged the Soviet Union under Stalin with an ancient Chinese Empire, mixed in The Truman Show and then made the whole thing Holocaust-esque, you have modern day North Korea. It’s a dictatorship of the most extreme kind, a cult of personality beyond anything Stalin or Mao could have imagined, a country as closed off to the world and as secretive as they come, keeping both the outside world and its own people completely in the dark about one another—a true hermit kingdom. A question, then, is “Why would an American tourist ever be allowed into the country?” Allow me to illustrate what I believe is the reasoning behind my being let in: High Level Government Meeting And so, I was allowed in, along with a small group of other Westerners, accompanied (at all times) by three North Korean guides. 1. 2. 3. This is it.
Quizzes Quizzes Main-Celebs-Movies-TV-Music-Life-More [First] « Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next » [Last] more quizzes » Traveling To The Third World Is Great And Also It Sucks The thing about visiting the Developing World when you live in the Developed World is that it’s a rich, eye-opening, perspective-building cultural experience and the other thing about it is that it sucks. You know that upsetting person who posts pictures on Facebook of themselves doing some delicious- or beautiful- or wild-looking activity in somewhere like Tanzania or India or Peru? And even though they’re posting for their own purposes as part of a skillful weave of Image Crafting and Jealousy Inducing, it makes you yearn anyway as you sit there in whatever shitty life you’ve chosen for yourself? The thing you need to remember is that they did some careful cropping on the photo—they cropped out the misery. You should still be jealous—just not that jealous. Let’s pause for a moment to examine the distinction between traveling and going on vacation. There are three things you can focus on when you’re on a trip: 1) The Place. 2) The People. 3) Yourself. * Here ** A) But really.