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Mind Mapping. The Collective Intelligence: 6 Famous Thought Experiments Explained in 1 Minute Each. What the 1% Don't Want You to Know. On Piketty and definitions. ‘Financial capital’ is not the same thing as ‘physical capital’ (two graphs) The discussion about Piketty is getting messed up.

On Piketty and definitions. ‘Financial capital’ is not the same thing as ‘physical capital’ (two graphs)

The vagueness of economic parlance allows people to accuse him of mistakes he doesn’t make. The meaning of the word ‘capital’ is a case in point. Financial capital (like bonds, cash, receivables (which are included in the estimates of financial wealth in the national accounts and which have the same magnitude as cash, deposit money and money in savings account combined)) are not the same thing as physical capital (houses, cars, buildings, machinery and the like). Financial capital is to quite some extent owned by old, retired women.

Physical capital is used by people at work. Over the course of history, capital accumulation [physical capital, M.K.] has yielded growth in living standards that people in earlier centuries could not have imagined, let alone predicted — and it wasn’t just the owners of capital [financial capital, M.K.] who benefited. Slideshow Generator. Prezi - Ideas matter. Zaption - Interact With Video. 5000+ Free PowerPoint Templates, Free PowerPoint Backgrounds. Download free PowerPoint backgrounds and templates - Brainy Betty. Empressr - The Best Online Rich Media Presentation Application. Microsoft PowerPoint Templates and Backgrounds.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Templates and Backgrounds

From athletics to science and from people to religion, we offer the most comprehensive and usable database of Microsoft PowerPoint backgrounds you'll find anywhere on the web. Free PowerPoint themes for every person and every business Microsoft PowerPoint is a versatile program used all over the world in boardrooms, classrooms, community centers, and even homes. But despite its many useful features, built-in PowerPoint themes leave something to be desired. A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Vintage data visualization: 35 examples from before the Digital Era. This is a guest post by Tiago Veloso, the founder of Visual Loop, a collaborative digital environment for everything related to information design and data visualization.

Vintage data visualization: 35 examples from before the Digital Era

He lives in Brazil, and you can connect with him online on Twitter and LinkedIn. If you follow us regularly on Visual Loop, you’ve probably noticed we like to featured not only modern interactive visualizations and infographics, but also examples from the past, from the time when there were no computer softwares to help analyzing and designing and no Internet to access and share data.

Graphics, charts, diagrams and visual data representations have been published on books, newspapers and magazines since they exist, not to mention old maps and scientific illustrations, and despite the lack of tools such as the ones we have at our disposal nowadays, they are as inspiring and important as the best contemporary visualizations. A Map of Physics (1939) (A 1939 Map of Physics) (Via Strange Maps) (image:John Snow,1854 ) (image:P.

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley. Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Website and blog of New York Times best selling author of "The Element", TED speaker, education and creativity expert. How to Change Education - From the Ground Up. 6 Ways To Build A Better Team. Tim Wright On May 5, 2014 Every company wants increasing employee engagement.

6 Ways To Build A Better Team

Engaged employees are good at communicating and putting forth extra effort to fulfill expectations. I’ve recently seen articles about student athletes becoming great employees. Therefore, having an athletic mentality can help grow employee engagement. You may not want flag football in your office hallway or field hockey in the foyer. Athlete / Worker Mentality 1: Communication Success in any sport depends on communication. Coach To Worker Mentality: Practice the skill of collaborative conversation. Increase your productivity at work by letting go of negative men. My alma mater is currently ranked number one in all of the college men’s basketball rankings.

Increase your productivity at work by letting go of negative men

They’ve been in the top spot for 11 of the 14 weeks of the polls, and were number one in the preseason. There are five games left in the regular season, and all of the teams Kansas has left to play would love to see the Jayhawks lose. 13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits. “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain Post written by Leo Babauta.

13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits

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7 Secrets of the Super Organized

So was my house, my desk, my mind. Then I learned, one by one, a few habits that got me completely organized. Am I perfect? 10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work. Post written by Albert van Zyl from the blog HeadSpace.

10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work

The lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days. All of them attached great value to their daily routines.