Meagan Spooner's Blog, page 106

"I know a thousand different smiles, each with its own nuanced shade of meaning, but I don’t know how..."

“I know a thousand different smiles, each with its own nuanced shade of meaning, but I don’t know how to reach the few feet away to touch this person next to me. I don’t know how to talk to him. Not when it’s real.”

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Lilac LaRoux, “These Broken Stars” (via thegoodgirlwithatwist)

True fact: this is basically me. Only without knowing all the smiles, and in regards to every human being ever, not just a boy I like. #socialanxiety

The Psychology of Setting Goals - The Sqwiggle Blog | Our Thoughts on Remote Working

The Psychology of Setting Goals - The Sqwiggle Blog | Our Thoughts on Remote Working:

Instead of using far-off deadlines, try using what psychotherapistAmy Morincalls“now deadlines.”These deadlines act like mini-goals, breaking big projects into smaller tasks, and trick your brain into working more steadily to meet a final deadline.

This is super fascinating in the context of professional novel-writing, given that our deadlines are by nature extremely far-off (as in months if not years) and ye...

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Future Hunter-Gatherer - Finalist Electrolux Design Lab 2014

Future Hunter-Gatherer is a virtual grocery shopping experience inspired by nature. It projects a hologram that lets the user play a game to gather food by fishing, hunting or gathering the food from nature. The food the user collects in the game is then transmitted to the local grocery store or market, that in turn gathers the goods and deliver them to the user’s door. In addition to making the shopping experience more f...

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neurosciencestuff:

NEBIAS: The world’s most advanced bionic hand

A prosthetic hand, which provides a sense of touch acute enough to handle an egg, has been completed and is now exploited by the NEBIAS project after 10 years of EU-funded research. The world’s most advanced bionic hand was tested with the help of amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen who was able to grasp objects intuitively and identify what he was touching, while blindfolded.

Researchers have created a new neural interface to provide sen...

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laurendestefano:

slightlyignorant:

HAHAHA INTROVERTS #FTW

When I was a kid and my parents wanted to punish me they couldn’t even do this. They told me to go play outside.

Mine once got so desperate to find some effective punishment that they threatened to take away my books. They barely had the boxes out to pack them up before realizing how crazy that was, but it basically called both our bluffs—I was so traumatized that I stopped misbehaving, and they were so traumatized that they stopped giving...

"76% of negative feedback given to women included personality criticism. For men, 2%. The study..."

“76% of negative feedback given to women included personality criticism. For men, 2%. The study speaks to the impossible tightrope women must walk to do their jobs competently and to make tough decisions while simultaneously coming across as nice to everyone, all the time.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/learning-to-love-criticism.html (via maxofs2d)

Take a second look at those percentages. If that doesn’t make your heart sink to the bottom of your chest, you’re not paying...

The joy of finding faces in things

lookatthisstory:

In Cloud Face,they point their cameras to the sky to do some cloud watching. Turns out we’re not the only ones who see faces in the clouds. As they say on their site, the project was designed “to examine the relation between computer vision and human vision.” And I found that the facial recognition algorithm they used identifiedseveral convincing cloud faces.

Tell me someone else finds the above compilation of cloud faces as intensely creepy as I do.

naturallysteph:I was very, very surprised and happy to...

naturallysteph:

I was very, very surprised and happy to discover that Isla and the Happily Ever Aftermade it into the final round of voting for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Young Adult Fiction.

Thank you. THANK YOU.

If it was your favorite, I hope you’ll vote for it in this final round. If it wasn’t, I hope you’ll vote for whatever was! (Those other books? They’re freaking great.)

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sjmaas:

behindthebloom:

We voted! Have you?

Eeeeee, congratulations to Sarah, and the other finalists!

Guys, go vote now in the last round!

"Confidence is not ‘they will like me’Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’ "

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Confidence is not ‘they will like me’

Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’

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- things everyone should know (via this-is-realitea)