Algorithm Distinguishes Memes from Ordinary Information — The Physics arXiv Blog Memes are the cultural equivalent of genes: units that transfer ideas or practices from one human to another by means of imitation. In recent years, network scientists have become increasingly interested in how memes spread. This kind of work has led to important insights into the nature of news cycles, into information avalanches on social networks and into the role that networks themselves play in this spreading process. But what exactly makes a meme and distinguishes it from other forms of information is not well understood. The word ‘meme’ was coined by the evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The process of replication—the transmission of information from one generation to the next— is crucial in evolution. That’s because scientific papers cite the papers on which they are based. Kuhn and co’s mechanism for finding memes is based on exactly this. But this alone does not distinguish memes from other types of information. 1. loop quantum cosmology
Emotion in Marketing: How Our Brains Decide What's Shareable 13.2K Flares Filament.io 13.2K Flares × Every day it seems like we feel hundreds of different emotions – each nuanced and specific to the physical and social situations we find ourselves in. According to science, it’s not that complicated by a long shot. A new study says we’re really only capable of four “basic” emotions: happy, sad, afraid/surprised, and angry/disgusted. But much like the “mother sauces” of cooking allow you to make pretty much any kind of food under the sun, these four “mother emotions” meld together in myriad ways in our brains to create our layered emotional stews. Robert Plutchik’s famous “wheel of emotions” shows just some of the well known emotional layers. In this post we’ll take a close look at each of the four emotions, how they form in the brain and the way they can motivate us to surprising actions. Happiness makes us want to share The left pre-frontal cortex of the brain is where happiness traits like optimism and resilience live. P.S.
Adventure Camps - The Exploration Society Summerscape 2014 SummerScape 14 is a multi activity camp open to boys and girls from Yr 3 to Yr 10. We are offering both a residential experience with transport provided from London or Cambridge, and a Day Camp option where parents can stay on the island and their children can come and play with us during ...More Info the day. Camp 1 - Monday 4th - Friday 8th August - £360 Camp 2 - Monday 11th - Friday 15th August - £360 Camp 3 - Monday 18th - Friday 22nd August - £360 Camp 4 - Tuesday 26th - Friday 29th August - £320 Day Camp - 9am - 5pm - £74/Day Siblings receive a 10% discount on camp fees This year we have the privilege of camping on Osea Island, a private estate off the coast of Maldon, Essex. To book a Holiday Cottage during one of the camps, please visit the The Escapees will cook for themselves in groups using a combination of campfires and camping stoves.
10 Brilliant Pinterest Board Ideas From Real Brands Yes, Pinterest might be the fourth largest traffic driver in the world ... but it's still a pretty challenging network to use for most companies, especially for those in the B2B sector. Maybe you've claimed your company's Pinterest profile and added a board or two with a few pins. Or maybe you haven't even dipped your toe into the network yet. Regardless of whether you're a Pinterest pro or an excited newbie, this blog post has got something to help you do your job better. 1) Lowe's: Build It! On Lowe's Build It! Lowe'sBuild it! See On 2) Petplan Insurance: Breed All About It -- Dogs We love this Pinterest board because it's a perfect combination of original, educational, and visual content -- all while featuring adorable dogs. Petplan Pet InsuranceBreed All About It: Dogs 3) WSJ: WSJ Graphics With "the death of journalism" supposedly on the horizon (can you tell I'm not buying it?) WSJ GraphicsWSJ Graphics 4) Benjamin Moore: doors! Benjamin Mooredoors!
Les mots les plus utilisés dans les slogans publicitaires créés en 2012 Bienvenue dans l'Observatoire des slogans publicitaires. Nous vous présentons dans ces pages, les classements tels qu'ils ressortent du recensement quotidien des slogans exploités en France, effectué par Souslelogo pendant l'année écoulée. Nous n'avons retenu que les classements qui présentaient le moins de biais sur un plan statistique afin de conserver aux résultats leur pertinence. Vous pouvez reproduire ces résultats et les exploitez à votre guise. Si vous souhaitez explorer notre base et effectuer des tris personnalisés, il suffit de nous contacter, nous étudierons avec attention votre demande et vous indiquerons faisabilité, coût et délai. Contact :labase@souslelogo.com Contact presse :souslelogo@ozinfos.com L'observatoire des slogans est une marque déposée par Souslelogo. Palmarès 2013 : les mots Les plus utilisés Les mots qui ont le plus progressé en 2013
How Much Does it Cost to Build the World's Hottest Startups? Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. 1) Twitter Henrik Werdelin, the Managing Partner of Prehype, a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable, Barkbox, FancyHands, Basno and Path, says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. “The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. 2) Instagram 5) Uber
LEGOLAND Directions | How To Get To Legoland Windsor Directions to LEGOLAND® Windsor LEGOLAND® Windsor is located to the South West of Windsor, close to both the M25 and M4 motor ways. It is only around 25 miles from the west of central London making it accessible for families traveling from all parts of the country. Traveling to LEGOLAND By Car From the North - If you are traveling from the north on the M40 or M1 then reach the M25 and head on the M4 from J15. Traveling to LEGOLAND By Rail Just half an hour from London Paddington to Windsor & Eton Central, via Slough First Great Western; or direct from London Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside South West Trains with a bus service to the park from stops close to both stations. LEGOLAND Windsor Address LEGOLAND Windsor Winkfield Road Windsor SL4 4AY Distance From LEGOLAND To Other Merlin Theme Parks To THOPRE PARK by car Approximately 11 miles, 30 minutes To Chessington World of Adventures Resort by car Approximately 30 miles, 50 minutes
Slide Design 101: The Rule of Thirds I am often asked how one can make slides look more engaging and visually appealing. Today, I want to offer up one simple technique that does not require a background in design, or expertise at programs like Photoshop or Illustrator: the Rule of Thirds. What is it? Imagine splitting up your slide into 3 equal parts, both horizontally and vertically. You can then use this grid to place and align your subject matter, optimizing the visual experience. Here’s how you can use it. The Horizontal Rule of Thirds When viewing your slides or camera viewfinder with this “thirds” lens (no pun intended), make sure you always place the eyes of your subject in the upper third. The Vertical Rule of Thirds When using the rule of thirds vertically, always set objects off to the left or right – never the middle. . Example 1: Example 2: These rules are also applicable to text since whitespace and the rule of thirds works with everything. Give this simple rule a try. About the Author Related Posts
Search engine data visualisations | Search insights I’ve decided I need a single place to put all of the search engine data visuals that I’ve been working on. The visuals are made up of thousands of actual queries put into search engines by UK users over the course of a year. This gives us an idea of ‘search demand’ which can/may/should equal actual, offline demand for a topic. Feel free to republish however please link to this blog and also to James Webb who helped to create them. They can be downloaded as PDF’s at the bottom of this page. Click the links below to open the visuals in PDF format for better quality printing / viewing. Overall Gardening Health Science Nature History Questions Like this: Like Loading...
Switching from Windows to Mac: What I Learned Apple announced new Retina display-equipped MacBook Pro laptops at its event last month, as well as the launch of the latest version of OS X, Mavericks. For this PC user, it was enough to finally make the jump from Windows to Mac for the first time. Almost everyone I know slowly switched to Mac in college, but I stuck it out with Windows. For a long time I thought it was the best choice of platform simply because purchasing a Mac seemed to be extortionately expensive compared with buying a PC desktop or laptop. I was wrong. The Good After booting up for the first time it stood out to me that there wasn’t a longwinded setup process, nor was there any pre-installed junk on the machine. The applications that are bundled with Mavericks are pretty fantastic, Mail and Calendar work great. Unified notifications and the Notification Center are well-built pieces of functionality that leave me wondering why Microsoft still hasn’t added anything similar to Windows yet. The bad
Kidrated London | Reviews for kids by kids! How KPIs Drive Success… As Well As Make You Slim, Fit And Have Shiny Teeth Ideas Illustrated » Blog Archive » Visualizing English Word Origins I have been reading a book on the development of the English language recently and I’ve become fascinated with the idea of word etymology — the study of words and their origins. It’s no secret that English is a great borrower of foreign words but I’m not enough of an expert to really understand what that means for my day-to-day use of the language. Simply reading about word history didn’t help me, so I decided that I really needed to see some examples. Using Douglas Harper’s online dictionary of etymology, I paired up words from various passages I found online with entries in the dictionary. For each word, I pulled out the first listed language of origin and then re-constructed the text with some additional HTML infrastructure. The results look like this: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This simple sentence is constructed of eight distinct words and one word suffix. A second example shows more variety: What follows are five excerpts taken from a spectrum of written sources.
Social Media Frequency: How Often to Post to Facebook, Twitter 2.1K Flares Filament.io 2.1K Flares × Subway has this sandwich with Fritos on it. I know this because their commercials play constantly on my TV and computer such that I nearly have the ads memorized. Every time their commercial airs, Subway is flirting with the fine art of frequency. How often is too often to share with your audience? Social media marketers face the same dilemma. If guessing is required for finding the optimal frequency, then at least we can be making educated guesses. Strike the balance between informative and annoying Good content can be found in a multitude of places, and once you find it all, the next question you may ask yourself is how often you can share. Our post on curating content sparked this exact question, asked in the comments by Ryan Battles. I’ve started tweeting content from Buffer, ranging from 3x per day to 7x per day. Informative versus annoying. How frequently Buffer shares to social media Twitter – 14 times per day, from midnight to 10:00 p.m. Predict.