Trending Tragedy

          Wherever you were June 25, 2009 it probably didn’t take long to hear about the death of Michael Jackson as the news spread around the web at lightning speed. These days it seems like people race to be the first to get breaking information out to their friends, relaying news as millions of little reporters. Besides its role in disseminating information social media is also instrumental in creating enduring trends, like helping to enter selfie into our lexicon and creating a space for posting old pictures every (throw back) Thursday. Importantly social media doesn’t just stop at such trivial things as popularizing Ellen’s tweet at the Academy Awards, but can prove to be a powerful tool informing the public and mobilizing individuals into causes.

Social Data

           In a technologically dominated world where information regarding just about every transaction, mobile phone, and social network can be traced, tracked, and potentially sold, Facebook reigns supreme.

Culture Context, Sunrise Sunset

Sunrise Or Sunset? Credit Anthony Ayiomamitis

          We are all aware to varying degrees that culture infiltrates and informs just about everything that we do on a daily basis. In the nature versus nurture argument culture plays a pivotal part on the side of nurture, but when does our culture actually color how we feel about nature and the things we see everyday? For a brief thought experiment let’s consider sunrises and sunsets.

Judging A Sandwich By Its Cut

          Whether it was something I saw or read I can’t be certain, but a few weeks ago my memory was jogged about the strange v-cut that Subway formerly used to create the space for all of your sandwich fixings.

Driving Aid

         

      
          To get the best results out of people in the workplace author Dan Pink says give them the tools to succeed then GET OUT OF THEIR WAY!

The Most Important Question In The Universe

          To say that the universe is massive is not an understatement of science or sight. You have mass, your car has mass, and the Earth has mass, yet this is nothing compared to the mass of other planets in our solar system and especially our Sun. Looking through a telescope to see distant galaxies that have around 100 billion stars each instills both a trifling feeling of personal purpose and a unique awe reserved only for those realizations that have moved man to myth and legend for millennia.

The Positive Prospects Of Traffic

       

          We have all been there on that hot day headed to the beach, or the rainy day en route to our in-laws, or just about anywhere, and you can do nothing but creep along the freeway inch by stressful inch as you slowly come to terms with the reality that there is no way you can be on time.