Jill Walker Rettberg’s Visualizing Networks of Electronic Literature maps the fragmentary and dynamic field of electronic literature by analyzing citations in 44 doctoral dissertations published between 2002 and 2013. Applying “distant reading” strategies to the ELMCIP Knowledge Base, Rettberg identifies key works in the field, shifting genres, and changing approaches to scholarship.
You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack: Cartoons
By Tom Gauld -- Tom Gauld lives in London. His comics frequently appear in The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Believer. He has designed a number of book covers.
what’s the difference between “intending to read” and “saving for when I have more time”? or between “pretend I’ve read” and “purely for show” Source: book of cartoons ‘You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack
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- Life sciences tend to have a flatter citations trend [shaded portion], perhaps because ideas in the field are easier for other experts to grasp—in contrast to fields like mathematics—so it takes less time for them to catch on.
- Among the authors who wrote multiple top papers [arcs that link dots] are five Nobel laureates. John Pople, a theoretical chemist who won in 1998, appears twice in multidisciplinary chemistry and three times in physical chemistry.
- Large numbers of authors [dots] tend to appear on more recent papers, as in environmental science. Ambitious experiments today can require hundreds of scientists, and in some fields big collaborations can lead to very long author lists.
- The most-cited papers [black music notes]have longer lifetimes than others [shaded portions]. Some are methods papers, which lay out experimental techniques other scientists use. Others articulate important theories, cited for decades.
PS. Click on the image to go to the dynamic visual map @ The EconomistComparing Indian states and territories with countries An Indian summary Which countries match the GDP and population of India's states and territories? How big is Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state? One way of answering the question is to take its total area: 95,000 square miles (246,000 sq km). Another way is to think of it as a country. If Uttar Pradesh were to declare independence, it would be the world's fifth most populous country (as the map below shows, it has about the same number of residents as Brazil). Yet its economy would only be the size of Qatar, a tiny oil-rich state of fewer than 2m people. That makes it poor on a per person basis. Despite India's two decades of rapid growth, Uttar Pradesh's GDP per head is close to that of Kenya. The map below presents country equivalents for India's states and territories in terms of GDP, GDP per person (in PPP terms) and population. Please play around with it and tell us what you think.
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New York-based designer Matt Daniels crunched the numbers on a list of 85 rappers to find which emcee has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop. The dataset was culled from the first 35,000 lyrics of each musician’s catalog taken from the website Rap Genius, so as to the level the playing field between newer and older artists, a number that comes out to around three to five albums worth of music. For context, Daniels also included the famously verbose Moby-Dick and the works ofShakespeare as benchmarks. continue reading
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Since the dawn of mankind, humans have tried to make sense of their world, especially when faced with unknown phenomena such as 'what causes storms', 'what happens to us after we die', and 'why to the planets move through the night sky'?
As homo-sapiens developed the ability for cognitive thought, so too did the first signs of religion seem to arise. The earliest evidence of a religious practice can be traced back 300,000 years ago when we began to bury our dead. Although we cannot define this as the origin of faith, it does suggest that at the dawn of humanity, we had begun to consider some kind of afterlife.
Over time, this religious practice gave rise to a new ideology which spread across the continents, known today as ‘Animism’. This emerging faith was the root belief system that would evolve and branch out into numerous other ideologies all over the world. The journey of these evolving religions can be broken down into five core stages:
• Stage 1: Animism (100,000 BCE – Present)
Humans began to believe that natural constructs (e.g. plants, animals, rocks and wind) possessed a spiritual essence. These spirit entities were believed to have powers and temperaments that influenced our everyday world. By worshiping these divine beings, it was believed we could maintain harmony with this spirit world and gain favors from them.
• Stage 2: Polytheism (5,500 BCE – Present)
The roots of Polytheism seem to lie in the Proto-Indo-European traditions. It seems likely the generation of new Gods were adopted from the nature spirits of the old world (giving abstract beings of thunder and Earth a more human form). During the Neolithic revolution, civilisations began to emerge requiring new areas of expertise (e.g. lawmaking, metallurgy, agriculture and commerce). It was the Indo-European Gods who took on the role of guide and leader to the civilised world.
Typically these divine beings were divided into several classes, overseeing the heavens, the mortal realm and the underworld. Each deity possessed their own powers, religious practice and domain (e.g. trading, diplomacy, warcraft etc). Man could either worship one or all of these beings, gaining favor from them via offerings, prayer and even sacrifice.
• Stage 3: Monotheism (1348 BCE – Present)
In the Bronze Age, a new movement took shape that prioritised one God over all other deities. This system is known as Monotheism - a belief in one supreme being. In 1348 BCE, the pharaoh Akhenaten, raised a lesser known God called 'Aten' to supreme status, downplaying the role of all other Egyptian deities. A little later in Iran, Zoroaster (a Persian priest) claimed 'Ahura Mazda' to be the one supreme deity. This newly emerging system posited that one creator god had formed the known universe, and was totally self-sufficient, capable of ruling over all other domains. This idea became prominent in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism.
Most monotheistic systems tend to be exclusive in nature, which meant the gods of the Old world had to be purged from mans consciousness. As a consequence, monotheistic religions displayed less religious tolerance than polytheistic religions, resulting in many wars and political disputes.
• Stage 4: Philosophy (585 BCE – Present)
During the Iron Age, many scholars began to question the faith systems of their day. Rather than accepting a religious view as the definitive answer to reality, they began to question the nature of the divine. These probing minds inspired a philosophical movement that swept throughout the old world (often ascribed to the Greek thinker Pythagoras). Great thinkers like Lao Tzu, Epicurus, Confucius and Hypatia were in pursuit of the ultimate, spiritual truth which included a desire to understand the laws behind reality.
What set these philosophers apart from other religious systems was the fact that they emphasised the use of reason and critical thinking over faith. In philosophy, something is considered true only if it is completely proven true on a long term basis by means of reasoning. If not, then it can not be considered the ultimate truth.
However, the Biblical worldview held sway for over a thousand years, ridiculing many philosophical truths as bordering upon blasphemy. Copernicus and Galileo the two foremost casualties of theological interference, with Galileo placed under house arrest by the notorious Inquisition. But all this was soon to change.
• Stage 5: Scientific Revolution (1600 CE – Present)
Over many centuries, philosophical questioning and testing gave rise to a new movement - known as the scientific revolution. A school of scientists believed that reality should be allowed to speak for itself, removing the subjectivity of human imagination and superstition.
The basic procedure of the scientific method was to explain a phenomenon using a hypotheses, and then designing a series of experiments to test this hypotheses. By repeating these tests, the validity of this theory would be revealed (determining it as either fact or fallacy). Such tests have given humanity an objective and profound insight into the workings of the universe.
This radical ideology quickly spread across Europe and the America's, introducing new perspectives on the natural world and man's place in it. The scientific revolution challenged ideas grounded in tradition and faith, promoting healthy skepticism and reasoning.
It opposed superstition and religious intolerance, making a long-term impact on the culture, politics, and governments of the Western world. It is considered the best method for making useful and practical additions to human knowledge about the physical world, and has resulted in the technological leaps made since it developed in the 1600's. This includes:
* Copernicus updating of the heliocentric model by replacing the Earth with the sun as center of the known universe.
* Isaac Newton's law of gravity which explained the elliptical orbits of the planets.
* Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, which explained that all living things in the world evolved from a common ancestor in the distant past.
Does McDonalds make you feel 'joyful'? Infographic reveals the psychology of colour and how it's used in advertising, Daily Mail, ByVictoria Woollaston
Psychologists recently found logos are hardwired into our brains We identify logos from the age of two, and link products in 67% of cases Researchers from Chicago used colour psychology to study popular logos It found Google's green Android is associated with peace and hope McDonald's' yellow arches were found to instill feelings of joy and energy While the orange used by Fanta is synonymous with creativity
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOR @ elvingarcia.com
Red: Associated with intensity, passion and aggressiveness.
Examples: YouTube and Red Bull
Blue: Associated with trust, confidence, and ‘depth and stability of the sky and sea’
Examples: Samsung and Ford
Yellow: Associated with joy and energy.
Examples: Ferrari and McDonalds
Green: Associated with the ‘harmony of nature’, relaxation and hope.
Examples: Android and Starbucks
Purple: The colour purple is linked to the ‘luxury of royalty’.
Example: by Cadbury, FedEx and Yahoo.
Orange: Associated with feelings of enthusiasm and creativity.
Examples: Mozilla’s Firefox and Fanta.
Pink: Associated with feminine traits, warmth, love and nurturing.
Examples: Barbie, LG
Black: Bold, luxurious and associated with the ‘formality and mystery of the night’.
Examples: BlackBerry and Tiffany and Co.
Brown: Dependable and reliable.
Example: UPS and M&Ms
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Companies like Pepsi spend millions of dollars on their logos, but some iconic logos like Google and Coca-Cola didn’t cost a single penny and they have remained almost unchanged since they were originally designed. This may well be due to their clever use of colors and the psychology of emotions behind them. On the other hand, having an elite logo is well worth the cost. Some logos, like Apple or Nike, are so powerful they don’t even need word-marks to be recognizable. In fact, psychologists proved that famous logos are so wired into our brains, that at the age of 2 kids can already link a product with its logo in 67% of cases.
'I am seriously disappointed in the "Morpheus" character advertisement for the new Kia automobile.
Yes, I get it. Movies are ultimately commercial enterprises.
But I really do hold a special place in my heart for the first (and only the first) Matrix film as an incredibly powerful modern myth. Selling out like this, well, it just hurts.'
NYTimes: "But why would anyone want a luxury sedan that looks so much like cars that cost one-half or one-third as much?" - $66,400 Answer, but What’s the Question?
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“If a woman is free to show her body, why should she not be free to cover it?” - See more at: Acknowledge Class Warfare Exists
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Christopher D. Hudson F. LaGard Smith Tyndale Samuel W. Bonney -- In this collection of Scripture texts, the selection has been made equally from the Old and New Testaments, a verse being taken from each alternately, beginning with Genesis and Matthew. Daniel PartnerAdditional resources @ Amazon.com
Mohammed Elmasry Compiled and Translated by Abdur Rehaman KidwaiAdditional resources @ Amazon.com
Joseph Telushkin Alan MorinisAdditional resources @ Amazon.com
Eknath Easwaran B. K. S. Iyengar Margot Anand Mr. J D Bhardwaj Additional resources @ Amazon.com
Richard Causton Thich Nhat Hanh Charlotte J. Beck
