In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world.Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme. Listen to the full talk: The-power-of-networks...
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
Buy the book at www.EndMalariaDay.com and save a life.It isn't very often that a book has the power to save a life. Yes, good books can improve lives, shape lives, even change lives. But when was the last time a book literally helped save a life? If you're reading this page, the answer is right now.This year, The Domino Project set out to change th […]
A characteristic of artistic education is for people to tell you that you’re a genius. [...] So everybody gets this idea, if you go to art school, that you’re really a genius. Sadly, it isn’t true. Genius occurs very rarely. So the real embarrassing issue about failure is your own acknowledgement that you’re not a genius, that you’re not as good as you thoug […]
Reaching for the Moon? People who let go of unachievable old goals have a better quality of life, McGill University researchers have discovered. The discovery was made when they were studying data of breast cancer patients.Researchers had studied 176 breast cancer survivors between the ages of 28 and 79. Self-reports of the individual's capacity to adju […]
Today would’ve been the 287th birthday of iconic German philosopher Immanuel Kant, father of the Categorical Imperative. To celebrate, here’s a witty and illuminating 3-minute digest of his life’s work from the wonderful Three-Minute Philosophy series.