Incredible good biker. Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye. Related posts: 8 Benefits from Working from Home The Berliner Philharmoniker at Home by Digital Concert Hall Dr Shock is Back ..read more »

A funny PowerPoint Presentation about PowerPoint Presentation Mistakes. Thanks BoingBoingRelated posts: How to create a Great PowerPoint Presentation PowerPoint in Education Slide:ology, the art and science of creating great presentations ..read more »

When did you lastly thank your spouse? Gratitude is an excellent booster for your relationship, it improves the other well being both psychologically as well as physically. It gives him or her more satisfaction, and activates pro-social behavior. So go and do it. An individual who expresses gratitude is not only providing a positive expression to a partner, but is also conveying an acknowledgement of, and appreciation for, the partner. Someone who is expressing gratitude to a spouse is essentially celebrating the benefits that their spouse has brought to their life, which has the potential to leave the spouse feeling understood, .....read more »

Can we use brain scans to select SEO's. I don't think so, do you? So is there a chance that a recruitment industry which already uses psychometrics will now look to other techniques, including perhaps brain scanning? One headhunter is sceptical. Read more over at BBC News, interesting piece, the start of neuroeconomics. Sound like a promising rising field of science, wish I had the time to look into this.Related posts: Video Games Affect The Brain, Good or Bad? What makes a Good Clinical Teacher iPhone makes doctors look more professional? ..read more »

Academic dishonesty is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. Examples are: Plagiarism: The adoption or reproduction of original creations of another author (person, collective, organization, community or other type of author, including anonymous authors) without due acknowledgment. Fabrication: The falsification of data, information, or citations in any formal academic exercise. Deception: Providing false information to an instructor concerning a formal academic exercise—e.g., giving a false excuse for missing a deadline or falsely claiming to have submitted work. Excellence in academics is highly valued in our societies. It delivers power, status, privileges and appreciation. It could also challenge .....read more »

Short video about electro convulsive therapy (ECT) with people who have been there. Nuanced narrative with the positive and negative aspects of ECTRelated posts: 10 Video’s on Electroconvulsive Therapy 9 Videos on ECT, electroconvulsive therapy. Electroshock in Mass Media ..read more »

Didn't know this, only available in the US unfortunately. Tricks to update your status, send messages to other users, and pull up stats via text message without waiting for a big graphics- and-data-intensive app to load on your phone. Related posts: The Birth and the Many Uses of Twitter Google Apps Tricks 10 Gmail Tricks You Might Not Know (video) ..read more »

When I started blogging I used Google Notebook a lot. Whenever coming across an interesting website, blogpost, video, with just one click it was saved into Google Notebook. Used it for blogging but also for the other aspects of my live such as work, science and education. Unfortunately Google decided to stop the development of Google Notebook. They're starting something new, a Chrome extension for Web Clipboard, but to late and to buggy for my taste to even try it. Moreover, my work flow has changed a lot since than and I am not switching again. Started using Evernote first .....read more »

arttubePlayer({ containerId:'arttube-big-eyes-kees-van-dongen', sd:'mp4:BM_KVD_en_kl.mp4', hd:'mp4:BM_KVD_en_gr.mp4', bg:'/media/uploads/video_groot/SS_VanDongen_680x382.jpg', width:520, height:310 }) The work of Kees van Dongen can be viewed in Rotterdam in the Museum Boymans van Beuningen. This film accompanies the exhibit 'All eyes on Kees van Dongen'. It includes an exclusive interview with Anita Hopmans, guest conservator of this exhibit. Also it contains historical footage which gives an impression of life in the time of Kees van Dongen Thanks Dr ConfabulaRelated posts: Kees van Dongen on Art Tube Nature Video of David Attenborough on Darwin ..read more »

HEALTH GeoJunction is a web application that supports researchers in the task of quickly finding scientific publications that are relevant geographically and temporally as well as thematically. It uses location, time and tags for these searches. You can give it a try at Health Geojunction, but I couldn't make it work, can you. Just wondering if any health care worker was looking for these features in searches? Do we need visually supported quick finding of scientific research publications that are relevant not only to a particular topic, but also to particular places and times? Apparently there's also a International Journal of .....read more »