Archive for October, 2007
Spinning Lady Optical illusion
9 Comments Published by cjlise October 14th, 2007 in Fun, Web, UncategorizedA few months ago, I came across the optical illusion below on Mighty Optical Illusion. It is possible to see the lady spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise:
Then last week an Australian newspaper posted an article that states this optical illusion can be used as a Right brain VS Left Brain test:
THE Right Brain vs Left Brain […]
snarkerati published a great list of 50 Dystopian Movies. Their definition of a dystopia is:
A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis or complete opposite of a utopia, an ideal world with a perfect social, political and technological infrastructure. Therefore a dystopia is an imaginary place or state in which the condition of […]
Here is another great talk from TED: It a 3 minutes answer to the question "What leads to success?". It can be summarize by the picture below:
The full video description followed by the YouTube link is below:
Why do people succeed? An unmissable 3-min. talk from the TED Conference on the real secrets of success (Hint: […]
Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world
0 Comments Published by cjlise October 7th, 2007 in Science, Fun, WebHans Rosling is a genius of statistics. He knows how to bring out insights from boring statistics. The following video show one of his presentation at TED:
In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer […]
