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UPPERCASE - About the magazine
by karlcow
We're inquisitive: learning from other artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, filmmakers and musicians, whether they're upstarts or icons, famous or shy, verbal or visual.
2008
slide:ology | O'Reilly Media
by karlcow
Presentation software requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology offers practical approaches that combine conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world's leading brands. Written by the President and CEO of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth.
2007
Loecsen médialang
by teasetrip
Ce site vous offre la possibilité d’apprendre des expressions essentiel avant de partir en voyage, plus de 200 expressions pratiques traduites dans 16 langues. Les spécificités des langues sont prises en compte et intègre la dimension culturelle des pays où elles sont parlées. Vous pourrez également moyennant un coût, les télécharger en fichiers Mp3 ou PDF pour les emporter à l'étranger et vous entraîner ! (expressions spécifique, formulations extra-verbal, coutumes, vocabulaire des aliments, etc…)
Apprendre des expressions essentiel en : Japonais, Chinois, Coréen, Estonien, Suédois, Danois, Italien, Français, Allemand, Hongrois, Espagnol, Néerlandais.
Putin Makes it Official | Russia Wants Allies to Fight U.S. Global Imperialism
by OPINIONIST
(via)
As Putin’s official Presidential term of office nears its conclusion - with elections set for March of 2008 - it appears the pressures of diplomatic double-speak and the shackles of friendly innuendo have been released. President Putin took the relaxed - almost unofficial - mood of the Munich conference to lay a verbal volley of criticisms directly at the ‘hegemonic’ United States and its aspirations for ‘global domination.’
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2006
Getting Answers
by karlcow
(via)
I hang out in several programmer related chats and forums and I see a lot of people having trouble getting answers. They get no answers, poor answers, or absorb a lot of verbal abuse.
Hypnotic Business » Blog Archive » Body Language: How Can Your Hands Transform How Others Perceive You?
by adameason
Today I want to discuss one of our most important body parts: Your hands. They create far more influence in life than you could possibly imagine and form an often pivotal part of non-verbal communication. How do your hands affect how you behave and how you are perceived by others? This article is here to tell you and show you how.
Groups perform better than the best individuals at solving complex problems | Science Blog
by Kaipyra
(via)
ups of two performed at the same level as the best of two individuals, suggesting that this group size was too small to introduce the necessary dynamics for optimal problem-solving. However, since groups of three, four, and five were able to achieve the same results, the authors submit that groups of at least three are necessary and sufficient to perform better than the best of an equivalent number of individuals on complex problems that require understanding of verbal, quantitative, or logical conceptual systems. Understanding these systems are necessary skills for scientific research teams, and the finding that groups of three or more perform better than the
Classical Intelligence Test - 2nd Revision
by zboog
& 3 others
Are you a logical thinker? A numerical whiz? A verbal genius? Or are you visually inclined? Are you looking for intellectual stimulation? Find out how smart you are (and increase your IQ) with the Intelligence Test.
Discrimination emerges in WoW? from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog
by bcpbcp
"Academics and other students of the Internet have known for decades that even typed communication can reveal such non-verbal aspects of an online user, but it still comes as a surprise when discrimination emerges in an online game."
2005
Eliminating Verbal Pauses
by Hydragon
& 1 other
One of the communication skills Toastmasters teaches is to eliminate verbal pauses when speaking, whether giving a speech, talking on the phone, or having a face-to-face conversation.
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