Monthly Archives: August 2008

Even Your 4-Month Old Knows It’s Impossible

Even Your 4-Month Old Knows It’s Impossible

Marketing Tips for Tough Times

Marketing Tips for Tough Times

Many companies think a horse race is all they need to pick a winner, without worrying about whether the horses are fast enough for the years ahead. These are companies that pride themselves on being obsessive about managing for performance, on paying and promoting those who deliver, while firing those who don’t. But often they turn out to be companies that think developing general managers is a waste of time, human relations an administrative task to be delegated and then ignored, and succession what you worry about the year before the CEO retires.

Joseph Bower, Harvard Business School, from The Leader Within: The Best CEO Succession Plans Groom Independent-minded Insiders for the Top Job

Harvard Business School Quotes Our Thinking On Deep Thinking

Harvard Business School Quotes Our Thinking On Deep Thinking

Brains and Burgers

Brains and Burgers

Auditory Synesthesia Anyone?

SynesthesiaSome researchers at CalTech have discovered that some people have a previously undiscovered synesthesia. You remember what synesthesia is, right? When stimulation of one sense causes automatic sensations of another sense to occur. For example, some synesthetes see words or letters as if they’re coded with different colors, or see colors from music or around people’s bodies. Of course not all synesthia is color-related, but the researchers at CalTech discovered a completely new form: synesthetes hearing noises when seeing movement.

If you’d like to see whether you might have auditory synesthesia, check out Dr. Saenz’s test. If you’d like to learn more about how Dr. Saenz discovered the phenomena, besides Dr. Saenz’s site, you can get a lovely reader’s digest version from Dave Bacon at the Quantum Pontiff, the source for this post.