Tag: behavior

  • Important Thoughts On Altruism

    Important Thoughts On Altruism

    Humans possess a great depth of capacity when it comes to altruism. Again and again, we demonstrate our tendency to reach out when others are in distress. Cultivating these instincts is one of the ways in which we connect with our own humanity. Studies have indicated that altruism is not entirely innate. Environment plays a…

  • How Big Data Is Exactly What It Sounds Like

    How Big Data Is Exactly What It Sounds Like

    When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took to Capitol Hill to explain user data retention almost four years ago, he essentially sat in the hot seat on behalf of every entity that has ever collected and used personal information to craft better products. If that sounds like a massive catch-all, that’s because it is. However, Systems…

  • The Healthy Body Needs Shocking

    The Healthy Body Needs Shocking

    Fitness plateaus – we’ve all hit them before and they are nearly impossible to break. Did you know that health journals may help you get past a plateau or move back toward unhealthy habits? Logging food intake and exercising seems tedious; however, Jenn Zerling http://jzfitness.com , MS, CPT, the author of Breaking the Chains of…

  • How Societies Become Consumer Cultures Through Housing

    How Societies Become Consumer Cultures Through Housing

    Alfred Marshall’s (Principles of Economics, 1891) view of housing still goes right to the heart of what makes housing and built environment an important anthropological topic. No artifact is so clearly multi-functional, simultaneously a utilitarian object of absolute necessity, and an item of symbolic material culture, a text of almost unending complexity. In every house…

  • Canada Uses USA Ad Agency To Snipe American Trademark In Time For 150th

    Canada Uses USA Ad Agency To Snipe American Trademark In Time For 150th

    With this Saturday, July 1st marking the celebration of Canada’s 150th Anniversary, the country recently hired the renowned New York ad agency Juized (*satirical)  to rebrand the nation as “The Greatest Country On Earth”. This phrase has typically been associated with the U.S., but America let the trademark slip and Canada has scooped it up…