Have you seen the snickers commercial with grumpy Joe Pesci?
He’s handed a snickers bar, eats it and suddenly everything is better.
It’s a clever ad because we can all relate to feeling grumpy when we’re hungry.
But the snickers ad is misleading and doesn’t actually tell the full story.
A snickers bar or any chocolate bar for that […]
Have you ever found yourself looking up a thesaurus in an attempt to find a more complex or sophisticated word to use in an essay so you looked more intelligent?
I’ll admit, I’ve done it. But it turns out, I’m not alone.
110 Stanford students were asked if they had ever looked up a thesaurus to find a complex word. Two thirds […]
Call me old school but sometimes I like to get away from my computer screen and work with a pencil or a pen and some paper.
In fact, I think humans create some of their best ideas when they work in this way as opposed to working within the rigid confines of a word document on a computer.
When I was […]
Picture this. A clear blue sky. Fresh clean air. Old ancient trees. Beautiful birdsong.
Nice, eh?
Now imagine this.
Noise from traffic. Pollution. Dirty plastic waste. A sea of concrete.
Let me ask you this – which scenery do you prefer?
Judging from the huge digital image of a blue sky and mountains in the polluted Tiananmen square in […]
