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6 billets, du plus récent au plus ancien.
Moonwalking with Einstein or the power of imagery in memorizing! The author, impressed by participants in memory championships, dives into their techniques. He discovers that it is possible to improve one’s memory by using memory palaces and out of the ordinary images to represent the elements to remember.…
Lire le billet « Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer » →Henrietta Lacks died very young from a cervix cancer. Her cervix cells were taken without her knowledge and consent. They contributed to significant progress in medical research but they were also used for non-pacific experiences she may never have agreed on. Her non-educated family was left in the dark for many years.…
Lire le billet « The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot » →I liked reading this book, especially at the beginning. What I enjoyed is reading about the ideas that drove the development of Facebook. I appreciated getting answers to the following questions. Why does a user have a single identity? Why does Facebook impose sharing to all of one’s friends instead of sub-groups?…
Lire le billet « The facebook effect, by David Kirkpatrick » →This book is about making your ideas hit your audience and being remembered. The authors state that there are 5 aspects that need to be considered, making up the acronym SUCCESs. S: Simple - Find the core of your message. Express the core message simply.…
Lire le billet « Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath » →This is a great book. The author is Chinese-American. She spent a few years in Dongguan, China, following the life of a few factory girls. These girls moved from a rural area to city life in search of wealth, adventure, meaning, … I like the author’s positive approach.…
Lire le billet « Factory girls: Voices from the heart of China, by Leslie T. Chang » →This book deals with our inability to expect events that may have a great impact. This is due to our inability of seeing the global picture. Our brain is made such that events are summarized, categorized according to patterns, causality, … The author highlights some common reasoning errors.…
Lire le billet « The black swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb » →