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Josh Miller,Patrick Casey

The World Reduced to Infographics

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  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    “To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”
    —Homer J. Simpson
  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    Everyone loves pie, making the charts both easy to absorb and pleasant to imagine eating, which allows the delicious information or data filling to be all the more digestible.
  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    With the infographic, however, before you even realize it, you’ve absorbed the information contained within it. The infographic is the Trojan horse of pedagogy. A stealth bomber with an explosive payload of pure data. A wet willy of knowledge inserted into the eager ear.
  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    Unfortunately, the major knowledge-transfer systems, for all their positives, suffer from what scientists call the “Boredom Factor.” They simply take too much time or effort away from the modern person’s busy schedule of unhappy work and inane leisure distractions. Which is why illustrative epistemology champions the use of information graphics, or, shortened for increasingly shortened attention spans, infographics.
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    Illustrative epistemologists believe that how we transfer knowledge from one person to the next is the very essence of being human.
  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    1. People like knowing things.
    2. People hate learning things.
  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    “A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.”
  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    While the female mind perplexes men with its enigmatic complexity, the male mind similarly perplexes women with its unsophisticated simplicity.
  • Ксения Маренниковаcompartió una citahace 8 años
    We currently live in a golden age of booze consumption, with varieties of alcohol and mixers from around the world easily acquirable at the local corner store.
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    Beer is the oldest form of booze, and it is currently the third-most consumed beverage on the planet (after water and tea).
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