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Men of the 45th Sikhs marching with the Guru Granth Sahib in Mesopotamia during WWI. Via ()
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This is Wayne Pacelle's blog today (the director of the HSUS) about the dogs in Sochi. Please keep sharing this...
 
 
 
 

Neuroscience meets Magic
Sunday, December 05, 2010 6:39 AM
Persuaders, Opinion Makers and Public Relations
Sunday, November 28, 2010 8:46 PM
The Century of Self

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Part 3


Part 4


Part 5


Part 6


More information here on PBS program "The Persuaders" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/etc/synopsis.html

One of the original book on Public Relations by Edward Bernays



Wendell Potter author of book "Deadly Spin" describes the practices of public relations here

Public relations is a communication tool. It is like technology that can be put to good use to help people or it can be used to manipulate them for self serving purposes.


Chimpanzee AI beat human on short memory Task
Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:11 PM
We think that we are bestowed with superior intelligence when compared with of the animal kingdom. Recently, the experimenters at the Primate Research institute in Kyoto University in Japan were able to train a chimpanzee named AI who performs better than humans on short term memory tasks.

Here is an article published in Guardian on the actual experiment.

This web page at Primate Research Institute Kyoto University, Japan provides the details of this novel experiment. Also a web page that provides videos of actual experiments.

Chimpanzee AI from Javed on Vimeo.

This experiment confirms that chimpanzees do have photographic memories and we do not that is why we invented media to augment our biological memories of past experiences.
What's Next in Marketing | Widgets
Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:05 PM
 
 


Professor George Lakoff on Non-Conscious Mental Processing
Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:07 PM
Prof. George Lakoff - Reason is 98% Subconscious Metaphor in Frames & Cultural Narratives. The rational actor model is not how human make decision.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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