By Manuela Mesquita “Guysssss can you pay attention please?!”” This is the request, verging on begging, which is so typical of a High School teacher. Capturing the attention of young people has never been easy, not even when the world was slow, and there was no technology to dream along with. If it wasn’t simple [...]
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By Julianna Antunes* Yes. I’m going to write this in the first person. I’ve got some generation X in me, a bit of Generation Z, but I am in fact part of Generation Y. X, Y, Z. Where are we (young people who have just started entering the workplace) going to find ourselves in this [...]
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The red areas indicate regions of activation in the functional MRI scanner during the particular task – reading (1st photo) or web searching (2nd photo). By Ines Schinazi Technology is obviously changing the way we speak, communicate, interact, and relate to each other. But is technology also changing our brains? Dr. Gary Small thinks so. [...]
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By Crystal Olig When Talking About Generations asked me about doing a guest post for them, and idea instantly popped into my head. The topic is highly personal – my own experiences in the different roles I play as a female Millennial. My experiences will differ from my mother and grandmother in substantial ways, and [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Generation, Ideas on set 9th, 2009
By Sam Davidson* It started innocently enough. It was a phrase I saw randomly that I thought would make a neat T-shirt for the college crowd (renegade or not). I saw it in my mind’s eye, emblazoned in white across black T-shirts the world over. It was a statement of fact, piggybacking on a word [...]
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By Blake Sunshine It can be tough to be a Millennial at work. Especially when you are working with people who are 10 to 30 years older than you. And while Millennials sometimes get a bad reputation, we know that we bring value to the workplace. Of course, it’s important that we play nice with [...]
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by Mauro Segura Businesses have a lot of difficulty talking about diversity. Especially when it comes to speaking to their clients, business partners, and collaborators. It seems that the “diversity speech” is present in theory, but not so much in practice. Generally speaking, businesses have made progress when it comes to establishing women’s equality in [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Ideas, Social Network on ago 10th, 2009
by Ludmilla Figueiredo Google Maps helps me reach my destination. I put together a nostalgic photo album on Flickr. I call to my sister, who has locked herself in her room, while chatting on MSN. I share news through messages that contain a lot of exclamations (revealing my state of extreme happiness or sometimes expressing [...]
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Mauro Segura I remember a few years ago, during management training, an instructor asked each of us to bring in an image that had spoken to us in adolescence and still remained present in our mind today. Most people brought in pictures of their family, of their first boyfriend or girlfriend, of their dog, or [...]
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Posted in Artikullocks, Ideas, Technology on jul 22nd, 2009
Ines Schinazi As technology evolves, art follows. Sometimes art sprints in the same direction as technology. Often, it purposefully lags behind, relishing in the comfort of brutal minimalism and raw simplicity. Sophie Calle’s art exhibit “Prenez Soin de Vous” (“Take care of yourself”) blends art and technology, so naturally, that the two become completely indistinguishable.
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