The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little Brown in 2000. The three rules[edit] Malcolm Gladwell describes the "three rules of epidemics" (or the three "agents of change") in the tipping points of epidemics. The Law of the Few[edit] "The Law of the Few", or, as Malcolm Gladwell states, "The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts".[3] According to Malcolm Gladwell, economists call this the "80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the 'work' will be done by 20 percent of the participants".[4] (see Pareto Principle) These people are described in the following ways: Connectors are the people in a community who know large numbers of people and who are in the habit of making introductions. Salesmen are "persuaders", charismatic people with powerful negotiation skills.
6 Things You Won't Believe Science Can Do With DNA
DNA gets a bad rap. It's the most sophisticated substance in existence, and thanks to CSI we think of it as murderer semen. Or we watch it proving that talk show guests who everybody (including them) hopes never reproduce have done exactly that. All this, despite deoxyribonucleic acid being so smart that most people consider even being able to say it a bit fancy. GettyWhich is odd, as the fanciest DNA often isn't passed on. Many people see DNA as something magical written down long ago that just tells you how things are going to be. #6. Anyone can build things to fetch stuff out of DNA, but it takes years, it shits quite a lot and by the time they're old enough to know what you want, they're old enough to be playing Xbox instead. GettyThe instant your chromosomes get out, they act like they've escaped a Nazi prison and you were the guard. That's why science cut out the middleman. LucasFilmAnd they'll be unstoppable because nobody makes ropes that small. #5. #4. Shueisha
Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
/Illustrations by Adam Cole/NPR Editor's note on Feb. 14, 2018: Please scroll to the end of this story to see a corrections note. Enron, Worldcom, Bernie Madoff, the subprime mortgage crisis. Over the past decade or so, news stories about unethical behavior have been a regular feature on TV, a long, discouraging parade of misdeeds marching across our screens. In general, when we think about bad behavior, we think about it being tied to character: Bad people do bad things. Which brings us to the story of Toby Groves. Chapter 1: The Promise Groves grew up on a farm in Ohio. "I can picture this," he recalls. Toby says his father simply thrust a newspaper at him. Toby's brother was almost 20 years older than Toby and worked at a local bank. Toby says he always had a difficult relationship with his brother. So it's against this emotional backdrop that what happens next occurs. Now for Toby, this was an easy promise to make. Which is what makes the addendum to this story all the more startling.
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6 Sci-Fi Technologies You'll Soon Have On Your Cell Phone
There's probably nothing you can do to impress a time traveler from the year 1950 more than showing him your cell phone. They're so ubiquitous that we take the little technological marvels for granted. And, we bet if you could travel into the future just five or 10 years, it would be the evolution of the cell phone that would blow your mind the most. Some of the stuff that's in the works right now: Let's be honest: Despite all the advances in phone technology and the slew of cool applications currently available, we're all still waiting for the day when our Blackberry Storms can play holographic 3D messages for us like R2D2. "This is Sue from Blockbuster calling to remind you that The Mummy Returns is now 27 days overdue." Well, cell phone manufactures apparently feel the same way. Regardless, companies seem to be taking the idea seriously, because prototypes continue to be developed that emphasize the 3D display instead of just using it as a novelty. Hurry up with that shit, Samsung!
47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself
I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first. Dr.
Validation of Dunbar's Number in Twitter Conversations
6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers
If the insane, explosive popularity if superhero movies is any indication, we are fascinated by people who are insanely better than us at any given thing. Probably because, in real life, we're all such a bunch of incompetent boobs that we've been enslaved by blue paint, flashing lights and crying French babies. But it turns out, superpowers are real. And not just the secret ones that everyone has, or even the ones everyone thinks they have -- this Cracked Classic is about a group of people that, in a sane world, would already have multi-colored leather jumpsuits, delightfully mismatched personality traits and a skyscraper shaped like whatever they decide to call themselves. We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), but the majority of us have to accept the sobering reality that preternatural abilities simply aren't possible. For instance ... #6. As with most superpower discoveries, Xiangang found his by acting like a braying jackass. So What's Going on Here? #5. #4.
