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Six Causes of Online Disinhibition
The online disinhibition effect has cost people their jobs, their income and their relationships, yet many are still oblivious to it. The first famous case of someone allegedly losing their job from indiscreet remarks made online was in 2002. Heat…
The Economy of Ideas
A framework for patents and copyrights in the Digital Age. (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong.) By John Perry Barlow “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action …
Kinetic Floor Tiles – Footsteps as a Power Source
The Skoda Energy Producing Tiles Use Human Footsteps as its Source At the 2010 Paris Auto Show, Skoda’s second generation line of GreenLine hybrids called the Octavia Green E made its debut along with the new Skoda Energy Producing tiles. These ti…
3D-Printed Hybrid Uses Sunlight, Ethanol or Gas
Stratasys, the 3D-printing people, are going to print an entire car. Lest you get too excited that you, too, soon will be downloading the Lexus of your choice and having it plop out of a desktop box, this is no ordinary car. Called the Urbee, the …
Why ‘Thank You’ Is More Than Just Good Manners
Is expressing thanks a powerful motivator or just a social nicety? According to positive psychologists, saying ‘thank you’ is no longer just good manners, it is also beneficial to the self. To take the best known examples, studies have suggested t…
Get Creative: 7 More Psychological Techniques
While it certainly isn’t the first time that love has been identified as a creative stimulus, psychologists have suggested a particular cognitive mechanism. Love cues us with thoughts of the long-term, hence our minds zoom out and we reason more a…
Boost Creativity: 7 Unusual Psychological Techniques
Called ‘Janusian thinking’ after the many-faced Roman god Janus, it involves conceiving of multiple simultaneous opposites. Integrative ideas emerge from juxtapositions, which are usually not obvious in the final product, theory or artwork. Physic…
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