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Surprise! Neural Mechanism May Underlie an Enhanced Memory for the Unexpected

ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2010) — The human brain excels at using past experiences to make predictions about the future. However, the world around us is constantly changing, and new events often violate our logical expectations. "We know these unexpected events are more likely to be remembered than predictable events, but the underlying neural mechanisms for these effects remain unclear," says lead researcher, Dr. Nikolai Axmacher, from the University of Bonn in Germany.

Video: Hybrid Meetings Introduction

A 6 MINUTE INTRODUCTION VIDEO about hybrid meetings: the combination of a real face-to-face meeting and remote participants and or remote speakers.
Demonstrating the USE OF you-tube, camera, slides, document- camera, etc.  

Dietary formula that maintains youthful function into old age

ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2010) — Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process.


The findings are published in the current issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine.

American Society for Training & Development

ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD’s members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in more than 130 U.S. chapters and with more than 30 international partners. Members work in thousands of organizations of all sizes, in government, as independent consultants, and suppliers.

Must Electronic Gadgets Disrupt our Face-to-Face Conversations?

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EXCERPT:

Over the last century, advances in technology
have massively expanded our choice of
ways to connect to each other. Nevertheless
our original means of communicating –
talking face to face – persists as the most
immediate, natural, and universal means we
have of communicating. Conversing face
to face, we have at our disposal not only the
full richness of our spoken language, but
also a nonverbal vocabulary that includes

Right-Handed and Left-Handed People Do Not See the Same Bright Side of Things

ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory.

Mary Boone

Mary E. Boone is president of Boone Associates located in Essex, CT. She is a leading authority on organizational communication, leadership development and large-scale interactive meetings. Her firm’s client list spans a wide array of public and private organizations – such as IBM, NASA, JPMorganChase, ConocoPhillips, AARP, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the United States Army.
oone Associates assists clients in these areas:

Mijn Blokje (My Brick) : Personalize your Lego (r)!


"Mijn Blokje" (My Brick) is a new initiative that provides you with personalized Lego(r) for different purposes. Albeit for gifts, educational purposes (round table, info sessions, workshops, ...), or as nametags for meetings, we engrave Lego (r) completely for your own purpose and goals. We offer different items such as magnets, keychains, bricks engraved with names, job titles, texts, ...

League Of Rock :: Music-Based Leadership Training

Leadership Training Taken To The Next Level...

Predictive Success Corp. Partners With League Of Rock To Combine World Renown Predictive Index Tool With Music-Based Learning

League of Rock is quickly becoming the de-facto standard in Music-Based Collaboration and Team-Building. Predictive Success Corp. is known nationally for assessment tools that turn self-awareness into practical business results.

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