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Retailers that spend on real estate, win.
The most expensive real estate in my county is a mall filled with stores. And those stores are jammed with shoppers. Almost none of them fold, none of them appear to be struggling. Almost all of them are expensive.
Two blocks away, independent stores, stores that cheaped-out on their real estate investment, those guys are struggling.
Well, you’re not in retail, maybe, or you’re virtual, so what difference does this make to you?
Question: what’s your “real estate”?
For most of us, it’s people.
Expensive people are just like expensive real estate. If you invest in them, you may just find they pay off. Some businesses work as hard as they can to pay people as little as they can (witness the fights over the minimum wage). What sort of growing business wants the minimum wage? If your business is people-based, as opposed to machine-based, why wouldn’t you want people who command more than the minimum?
This site introduces you to many of the issues and ideas that are of interest in the field of development economics. You can take a series of virtual field trips throughout Zambia visiting a number of places and people, gaining access to key data and economic theory. Field trips including aid, wildlife and agriculture.
Charlie Brooker in the Guardian says,
There’s no point debating anything online. You might as well hurl shoes in the air to knock clouds from the sky. The internet’s perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain’t one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.
via Frank Paynter’s Listics
Americans are more socially isolated than they were 20 years ago, separated by work, commuting and the single life, Duke University Professor Lynn Smith-Lovin reported on Friday.
Nearly a quarter of people surveyed said they had “zero” close friends with which to share or talk over issues.
What is happening? What are humans for?
More than 50 percent named two or fewer confidants, most often immediate family members.
Excelsior Redwood Company locomotive’s pull eleven foot diameter giant redwood logs.
Link to gallery of sunny Fortuna near northern California’s majestic redwoods.
Link to the special collection in the Humboldt Room at Humboldt University.
“A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain shared values…”
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada;
active from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s.
Each pixel of this face has been calculated by scientists using a specialized software program.
It has been altered in a special way in order to make people think this is an attractive face.
Find out why some faces are more beautiful than others.
Learn how scientists help unravel the mystery of beauty and the dangerous relationship between a beautiful body and social power.
“We are trapped by the simple false conclusion: what is beautiful is also good”.
“All this shows that we judge people and ourselves on a totally unrealistic basis. We compare ourselves with the most beautiful faces of the world which seem to be omnipresent in the media. They are integral parts in movies, in music video-clips, in commercials, they are on the title pages of magazines, on posters and so on. But the most absurd thing is that these “natural” faces the way they are depicted do not exist in reality either. Most of them are at least partially “artificial”. Their digital images are increasingly optimized by modern image processing software. By doing so faces are generated with attributes that are unreachable for even the most famous super models.”
SymFace lets you see how your face would look if it was perfectly symmetrical
For we are smothered in the revelation of beauty,
as awakening to each day within these stars must surely be.
Nearly a quarter of people surveyed said they had “zero” close friends.
Americans are more socially isolated than they were 20 years ago, separated by work, commuting and the single life, Duke University Professor Lynn Smith-Lovin reported on Friday.
More than 50 percent named two or fewer confidants, most often immediate family members.
In over a fifth of cases, people wrongly remembered whether they actually witnessed an event or just imagined it…
“In our tests volunteers either thought they had imagined words which they had actually been shown or said they had seen words which in fact they had just imagined – in over 20 per cent of cases. That is quite a lot of mistakes to be making, and shows how fallible our memory is – or perhaps, how slim our grip on reality is!
“Our work has implications for the validity of witness statements and agrees with other studies that show that our mind sometimes fills in memory gaps for us, and we confuse what we imagined occurred in a situation – which is related to what we expect to happen or what usually happens – with what actually happened.
“Most of us, though, have a critical reality monitoring function so that we are able to distinguish well enough between what is real and what is imagined and our imagination does not have too great an impact on our lives – unless the reality check system breaks down such as after stroke or in cases of schizophrenia.”
The study found that the areas that were activated while remembering whether an event really happened or was imagined in healthy subjects are the very same areas that are dysfunctional in people who experience hallucinations.
Dr Jon Simons and Dr Paul Burgess led the study at the University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience via Science Blog
“…what is it about religion that’s got America hooked?
It’s an old debate between absolutes, the contrasting viewpoints of belief and disbelief that stirs the passions.
From the popular to the public square—79% of self-identified evangelical Christians cast ballots for President Bush in 2004—the tug of war between reason and faith is the undercurrent of our society in what some see as a fundamentalist era.
On one end of the spectrum people say, “Only religion counts.” On the other end, “Only reason counts.
‘How do we keep the public space between reason and faith, where most of us spend our lives, from becoming a no-man’s land of constant warfare?’
– Bill Moyers (Read the full essay.)
Resources for further investigation of the topics:
“I’d rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it,” says Dixie Chick Martie Maguire, “who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don’t want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do.”
Full story at TIME,
via Huffington Post
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