Just in case the market is getting you down, check out this comic sketch from LAST YEAR. Shockingly prescient …
A comic prophesy comes true
Design
The story behind the slides: Palantir’s presentation at TEDGlobal 2012
By now we’re all pretty familiar with the theory of presentations. Slides need to be bold, beautiful. They need to go easy on the amount of text they’re asking the audience to compute in a hurry. Speakers should speak to slides but not read slavishly from them. Still, sometimes a presentation comes along to show […]
Science
In Short: Parkinson’s Voice Initiative reaches 10K calls, as a restaurant asks you to check your phone
Max Little, who gave the recent talk “A test for Parkinson’s with a phone call,” let us know that the Parkinson’s Voice Initiative has reached its goal of collecting 10,000 voice samples — which they needed to ensure the accuracy of their over-the-phone test for the disease. “It’s probably the fastest ever, large-scale Parkinson’s study,” […]
Darina Stoyanova commented on Oct 2 2008
Hilarious and unfortunately quite true. And a sequel to this part.
Bird and Fortune – Financial Adviser on the Credit Crunch