The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it.
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Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate | Marc Lynch - 3 views
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It goes back to the idea that giving importance to those who have less power than you do whether it is politically based or a music rivalry will only increase the power social power of the lesser party. Yet if you use your power to completely oppress the party with the less power, then you are seen as abusing importance of your power in society. So then what is one to do? How d
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Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil - 3 views
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More and more we see that some, if not most, classes make it a point to incorporate PowerPoint presentation into the requirements. As much as these presentations are painted in a position light (and this is not to say I am against PowerPoint) they lack the proper execution. When professors add all the information they are going to use in lecture, you see a good amount of students feel that there time is being wasted as all the information needed and being used in lecture is on this presentation, one that they can easily print. We become disengaged when all the information is given to us, yet we have to sit there and pretend we are interested. Can PowerPoints be useful, yes of course they can. But for the most part, they tend to contain too much information, and we tend to get lost in the sea of data.
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PublicAffairs Books: THE POLITICAL BRAIN - 8 views
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This is interesting as we see it in play every day in politics. In order to gain the approval of the voters we see politicians, in a sense, giving the polis what they want. They tend to shape their ideologies and views on certain issues, in the moment to capture their intended audience. If you can get the polis to relate to you then you can in essence "win their vote."
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HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING | More Intelligent Life - 5 views
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He must take an intense interest in other people, complete strangers, and work to understand them, yet remain detached and uninvested. That the plan is to cheat these people and ultimately confirm many of their fears cannot be of concern.
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Although in this article is speaking to the techniques of a con man, the same characteristics can be used for anyone who wants to influence another or a group of individuals to believe or accept something that will benefit them. Perfect example is when presidential candidates promise the world to "the polis". They are merely working to understand them,"showing them" that they can put there fears at ease in order to gain their vote. The ability to persuade others give one the ability to influence decision making.
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Once, when he visited a victim the day after to "apologise", he found the man crying about his mortgage, wife and kids.
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In order to be successful at "conning" individuals you must be emotionally detached, this gives you the ability to excel because you do not see the repercussions of the damaged you have caused or can cause. Being indifferent is key, being aware of the consequences leads to the guilt that can ultimately stop one for continuing in this act as we saw with Mr. Lovell.
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http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twocon... - 10 views
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Freedom at times is seen as either your are free or you are bound by something or someone, yet this article ( alongside the video) shows us that this "term" is broad. Depicting the idea of freedom, we can see that it is far more complex than we tend to assume.
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views
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The endowment effect has nothing to do with wealth (it is not as if chocolate bars and coffee mugs matter) or transaction costs (in most experiments these are zero). Not even emotional attachment, whatever that means, can really be called in as an explanation, since the effect is both instantaneous and sometimes felt even by those who buy and sell for a living.
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This is interesting because it shows how complex individuals can become without a concrete rational explanation. We the mentality that we must give value to our belongs.
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When presented with a choice, 60% of the chimps preferred peanut butter to juice. However, when they were endowed with peanut butter, 80% of them chose to keep it instead of exchanging it for juice. It was as if the peanut butter became more valuable as soon as it was possessed. And an opposite endowment effect was observed when the chimps were given juice.
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This just shows, although it was just an experiment, that we do not care the extra amount of effort our choice of value will actually cost us. We have this pride in value that we offer and we strive to "validate" it.
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3quarksdaily: LEGOS and the Changing Face of American Higher Education - 6 views
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It can be a painful lesson in the need to write clearly and the importance of knowing your audience, and a lot of them have already learned it by the time they get to my class.
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It is interesting to see how the author attributes writing clearly and knowing how formulate thoughts to your audience based on the social tendencies of this generation.
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The result is that today’s students are far more comfortable simply accepting an idea, person, or thing for what it is.
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Although in our modern society war is a common term, it doesn't physically affect us as much as it would have during past eras such as world wars. Our lives are not perfect, but we have the ability to live a much comfortable life and shape our policies to fulfill that.
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In college this often translates into a generation of students who want the answers but are less interested in asking questions.
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