Category: Human Behavior

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Will you flunk your social media background check?

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Will your social media habits impact future employment?

Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It’s new and scary and probably scours the Web for pictures of you puking on the beach.

But screw speculation. We wanted to know. So Gizmodo ran background checks on six of their employees.

Here’s what they found, and why you should both freak out about and embrace it…

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Analysis, Art, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Education, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior

The Connected States of America

When you think of a map of the US, you probably break it down by state or quadrants or party affiliation. But MIT, IBM and AT&T’s research teams decided to look at who was talking to whom, and the resulting map is pretty captivating.

The researchers organized anonymous data from AT&T mobile phones into interactive maps illustrating which areas place the most calls and texts, and who they’re communicating with. The colors represent areas that areas that communicate heavily locally, while the lines are for areas of the country that are in heavy contact remotely, like San Francisco and New York…

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Analysis, Human Behavior, Latest Trend, top 10

Top 10 ticketed cars in America

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Does what we drive affect how we drive?

Quality Planning , an analytics company that works with auto insurers asked the question: Does what we drive affect how we drive?  They ranked vehicles most likely to get a ticket based on the number of moving violations issued for each 100,000 miles driven.  There are a few predictable entries in the top 10 list but the list is not totally comprised of  flashy red sports cars.

 
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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Corporate Manipulation, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints

Can’t decide on a tattoo? Get a QR Code inked on your chest!

As part of whisky brand Ballantine’s “Leave an Impression” campaign, Paris-based tattoo artist Karl Marc seared a QR code onto his friend Marco’s chest.

Marc says the whisky company approached him and asked if he would be interested in executing the tattoo — a QR code that unlocked an animation when scanned — via a live stream on the brand’s Facebook Page. The brand is doing similar events with other artists, from ice sculptors to graffiti artists…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Education, Entertainment, Great New Product, Human Behavior

High Tech Specs may change the way we see the world

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Perspective changing glasses are coming soon.

Imagine glasses that can read body language and offer suggestions about how you should respond, or goggles which can scan faces and call up criminal databases to find a real time match. These snazzy high tech specs aren’t just science fiction props anymore, and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are sure that their “social x-ray specs” are going to find a multitude of uses in society, from communicating more effectively with Autistic people to becoming human lie detectors and much more.

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Culture, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior

Cookie Master

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If you could write a fortune what would it say?

Have you ever aspired to be a fortune cookie writer? Most of us who ever received a lame fortune have contemplated it for a short time. However, there aren’t many of these positions available. Donald Lau is the vice-president of Wonton Food, Inc. in Queens, New York. In addition to his financial work, he has written many cookie fortunes…

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Breakthrough Thinking, Culture, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints

Surveillant Society

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Our perspectives keep changing.

One aspect of the Egyptian uprising (among the others, most ongoing) that was overpowered by the wild acclamation of social media is something that has been quietly but powerfully changing societal norms over the last decade. It is simply the inclusion, on almost every mobile phone sold, of a digital camera. When 90% of the active population can, at any time, record an event they are witness to, and transmit it to the rest of the world instantly, many rules begin to change.

It’s not new, of course: “citizen journalism” has a long history before mobiles were prevalent, and the growing trend of “you report”-style news and things like Twitter streams in live reporting are as plain as the lens on your phone…

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Analysis, Human Behavior, New Discoveries, Twitter

U.S. City Names according to Twitter

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What you Tweet is not always what you get.

I must be the only person on Twitter who calls their location by its real name. A recent study by InboxQ revealed that 66% of Tweeters have either made up a location entirely (“John Malkovich’s brain”) or use clever nicknames for their cities. The latter is what you’ll find represented in this “America According to Twitter” map…

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Analysis, Culture, Human Behavior, Latest Trend

Dad’s spend twice as much time with kid’s than they did a few generations ago

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“Take Time To Be a Dad Today”

The percentage of  fathers in the U.S. who live apart from their children has doubled over the last 50 years. But, many dad’s today are spending more than twice as much time with their kids as they did back then.

 

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