The value of these unconscious rules lies precisely in their difference from rational analysis-they take into account only the most useful bits of information rather than attempting to evaluate all possible factors. Drawing on a decade of research at the Max Plank Institute, Gigerenzer demonstrates that our gut feelings are actually the result of unconscious mental processes-processes that apply rules of thumb that we’ve derived from our environment and prior experiences. Now, Gigerenzer explains why our intuition is such a powerful decision-making tool. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better results than careful analysis. Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink. An engaging explanation of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling Blink
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Waxy monkey tree frogs ( Phyllomedusa sauvagii) walk along branches, gripping them like monkeys do. Described in a 2012 study published in the journal PLOS One (opens in new tab), this frog grows to an average length of 0.3 inch (7.7 millimeters), making it the smallest known vertebrate on Earth, Live Science previously reported.įrogs are famed for their fantastic jumping skills, but not all frogs hop. The world's smallest known frog is a tiny species called Paedophryne amauensis from Papua New Guinea. Goliath frogs appear to use their great size to shift rocks weighing more than 4 pounds (2 kg) to build " nursery ponds" that they clean and guard, Live Science previously reported. The largest frogs are Goliath frogs ( Conraua goliath) from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea they can grow to be more than 1.1 feet (34 centimeters) long and weigh 7.3 pounds (3.3 kilograms), according to a 2019 study published in the Journal of Natural History (opens in new tab). Frogs come in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes. Though this model of relationship-as-power-struggle is hardly new, Dolan brings a fresh 21st-century sensibility to it. Ava makes it her mission to get him to admit some feelings for her, purely because it would give her the upper hand. His privilege is the invisible third party in the relationship. Julian, her posh banker boyfriend, has such an apartment – which is just as well, since he also has an arrogance to match his salary. It’s a brilliantly concise summation of her take on relationships, which she sees as a power game, an “ultimately shallow emotional transaction” in which the greatest potential benefit might be that you get to move into an apartment better than anything you can afford on your own. A va, a 22-year-old Dubliner living in Hong Kong, describes herself as “good at men”. Between his accolades and a generation of filmmakers who were regaling their own children with “Jumanji,” “The Polar Express,” “Two Bad Ants” and other Van Allsburg works, the bear-shaped, bearded author entertained a stream of offers. “Jumanji,” published in 1981 by Houghton Mifflin, also earned Van Allsburg a National Book Award for book illustration. Two of his 14 titles have won Caldecott Awards, the highest prize for illustrated children’s books. Van Allsburg now uses such jargon so convincingly that it’s hard to imagine that in the 3 1/2-year course of “repurposing” his book “Jumanji” into TriStar’s big 1995 holiday release, opening Friday, the artist and author never spent a single day on the West Coast. Among the phrases Chris Van Allsburg picked up in his total-immersion introduction to Hollywood was the expression “laying pipe.” For most people the term might suggest sewer construction, but Van Allsburg soon learned that laying pipe is actually a crucial element of story development-meaning that the weirdness a character displays in Act 1 will explain the plot twists in Act 3. I was really craving a book that would make me stop everything I was supposed to be doing and devour every word… and that’s exactly what Bully did! This is the definition of a hate-to-love story and it totally rocked. We’re going to go head to head, because neither of us wants to back down. I’m not interested in avoiding him or turning the other cheek anymore. I’m hoping that after a year of breathing room, he’s moved on and forgotten all about me.īut even if he hasn’t changed, I have. Now I’m back to finish up high school and get the hell out of here forever. I spent a year studying abroad and bathed in the freedom of life without Jared. I worried about what was around every corner and behind every door. His pranks and rumors got more sadistic as time wore on, and I made myself sick trying to hide from him. I’ve been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. But then, one summer, he turned on me and has made it his mission to screw up my life at every opportunity. We’re neighbors, and once, we were best friends. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all. MojolaOluwa: I’d say it’s a beautifully woven plot of dreams and aspirations, and never giving up, and just doing it, of love, disappointments, highs and lows, grief and happiness, lessons learnt, unlearn-ed and relearnt, pleasant memories, positive projections, varying human motions and emotions a really really good read. Ohh! It’s a sentence not a word I will say ‘the book is a brazenly honest narrative’. I definitely will use the word ‘honest’ The book is brazenly honest. So if you had to describe the book in one sentence, what would it be? MojolaOluwa: AA Phil Knight hug for you!!! (whatever that means) □. I didn’t want to share moments with the book with any other activity In fact, I spent this long reading it because the book intrigued me so much I had to savour it It was like a lover to me. It dragged this long not because it was a boring read. MojolaOluwa: So we gave ourselves 3 weeks to read the book. Title of Book- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight(The creator of Nike) We did justice to it by discussing our takes from the book and we wanted to share that with you. Absolutely lovely idea! That’s how we studied ‘NIKE’ for a few weeks□. So my home girl Oluwatobiloba Elujulo shared this book with me and thought we could read it together. Guys! Guys! Guys! This is a special edition of my book review blog series. It is often a case of Venom or the other characters using incredibly convenient objects near to them to defeat their enemies, leading to some ridiculous yet comical moments. The fight scenes have a very ’90s feel to them, which the rest of the issue also brings, but that is due to the humor of it. From a brief fight with a classic Spider-Man villain to an encounter with a member from Eddie’s past, Venom appears revitalized by the end of the issue. His wounds aren’t healing, and he is truly on his own. Brock starts at a really low point as his Symbiote is unresponsive. After Humbug humiliates and nearly kills Eddie Brock’s Venom Symbiote, Brock goes out hunting for those that are trying to destroy him. Venom: Lethal Protector #2 is published by Marvel Comic, written by David Michelinie, with art by Ivan Fiorelli, colors by Bryan Valenza, and letters by Travis Lanham. It would be nice if Sony or some reissue label like Sundazed would put this out on CD. I used to see vinyl reissues on the net but they seemed to have disappeared. I am hoping that Electric Lucifer will someday come out on CD since Hush Little Robot only contains some of the tracks from this album. I got it for 25 cents! I like the record a lot. The disc looked unplayed but the jacket had the bottom seam split and some child must have colored with a marker on the cover. About 4 years ago I went into our now nonexistent Salvation Army and found a copy of The Electronic Record for Children on vinyl Dimension 5. So in the late 90's I bought the 2 compilations that were out and then got a few other titles on ebay from King records. I was already into moog and other electronic music but had never heard of Haack. I was first introduced to him by accident while browsing on While delineating characters with brilliant economy-Skellig’s habit of laughing without smiling captures his dour personality perfectly-Almond adds resonance to the plot with small parallel subplots and enhances his sometimes transcendent prose (“ ‘Your sister’s got a heart of fire,’ “ comments a nurse after the baby survives a risky operation) with the poetry of and anecdotes about William Blake. His discovery, in a ramshackle outbuilding, of Skellig, a decrepit creature somewhere between an angel and an owl, provides both distraction and rejuvenation he and strong-minded, homeschooled neighbor Mina nurse Skellig back to health with cod liver pills and selections from a Chinese take-out menu. The routines of school provide some relief, when Michael can bear to go. Almond pens a powerful, atmospheric story: A pall of anxiety hangs over Michael (and his parents) as his prematurely born baby sister fights for her life. One morning he is called to investigate the death of a young man, Ronald Adair, the son of the Earl of Maynooth, governor to an Australian colony. Watson, we're not really sure where this story is going. 1894, Three years after the deaths of Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty, Watson has left Baker Street to continue running his surgery and working as a police surgeon. Sounds like a case for Sherlock Holmes Except not, because Sherlock Holmes is dead. The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a second installment in Granada Television TV series, starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes, preceded by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1985) and followed by The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991-1993), and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994) TV series, and two feature-length made for TV movies: The Sign of Four (1987) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988). The Adventure of the Empty House It's spring of 1894 in London and a famous dude, Ronal Adair, has been murdered. Eleven short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were adapted into the series. It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. Weeks after seemingly perishing at the hands of. The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a British 1986-1988 TV series, starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. The Return of Sherlock Holmes adapts the Sherlock Holmes stories The Empty House and The Six Napoleons. |