I want one too.

(Source: burningseraphim, via psychology-terms)

(Source: justlittlethings)

realcleverscience:

usagov:

Social media is a part of daily life, but what happens to the online content that you created once you die?

If you have social media profiles set up online, you should create a statement of how you would like your online identity to be handled. Just like a traditional will helps your survivors…

Not science related, but damn interesting.

As for me, I want my entire blog chiseled into my tombstone. Let it be known and make it so. Also, it might be cool to plasticize my body and have my gutsy-skeleton looking into a mirror at itself (or maybe a “mirror” which is really an image of my normally skin-clad self)… or that might be terrifying, lol… glad I won’t be there to see it…

(Ok, time for sleep, lol)

p.s. If I suddenly kick the bucket, I’ll let my IRL friends decide what to do with it all, including my hard-drive.

Should I write a will too?

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #37 by Tyler Knott Gregson

bookpickings:

A Technique for Producing Ideas: The simple, five-step formula anyone can use to be more creative in business and in life!

James Web Youn

“…the habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.”

James Webb Young’s timeless five-step guide to producing ideas, originally written in 1939.

Ideas.

bookpickings:

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Jonathan Gottschall

“Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can’t resist the gravity of alternate worlds.”

Educator and science writer Jonathan Gottschall traces the roots, both evolutionary and sociocultural, of the transfixing grip storytelling has on our hearts and minds, individually and collectively. What emerges is a kind of “unified theory of storytelling,” revealing not only our gift for manufacturing truthiness in the narratives we tell ourselves and others, but also the remarkable capacity of stories — the right kinds of them — to change our shared experience for the better.

Seems like a good book. I shall read it one of these days

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #38 by Tyler Knott Gregson

):

I need a hug too..

(Source: justlittlethings)

criminalprofiler:

Crime Scene Investigation

What is Crime Scene Investigation?

Crime scene investigation jobs have been popularized by several hit crime shows on TV. Hence, many desire to perform these jobs. But the truth is, solving crimes and crime scene investigation as a whole is a very complicated job that requires both theory and practical application.

As the name implies, crime scene investigation requires you to observe, gather evidence, and analyze any information you can get at the crime scene. You will then use those data to hypothesize what took place on the crime scene, what caused the death of a victim, what method of attack is used, and the like. Presence of evidence that would help point to the identity of the suspect must also be gathered. Although this process appears to be quite simple, it is such a complex job that even learned crime scene investigators require years of working experience before they are able to develop skills needed to become better at this job.

There are multiple ways in which you can study, examine, and analyze evidential items that can help boost your crime analysis. However, all of these methods are grounded at a few basic protocol followed when processing a crime.

Scene Processing

This is the initial and most crucial aspect of crime scene investigation. Several methods and skills are involved in this step of your crime scene investigation. Processing the scene of the crime involves the interview process with eyewitness for potential information needed in solving the crime, taking photographic evidence of the crime scene and the victim’s body in relation to the crime scene, more intense evidence search, sketching the crime scene, and a few other photographic evidence that could help solve the crime puzzle.

This is the step that determines the success of your succeeding criminal investigation efforts because it involves the collection and documentation of evidence for future reference. One other factor that makes the scene processing a vital aspect of crime scene investigation is that you cannot re-create a crime scene once you have failed to gather all the information you need for further crime analysis.

Evidence Knowledge and Interpretation of Evidence

What will you do with the evidence if you lack the knowledge to interpret and analyze them? Proper methods of analyzing and handling evidences is crucial in an effective crime scene investigation. Therefore, it is a strong suit that will help keep the crime investigation going. Other evidence need to be further studied at criminal laboratories either to see if there are any fingerprints, or to see samples of blood or other substances. There have been several instances in the past wherein the DNA of the criminal is found on the evidences gathered at the crime scene that led to their arrest.

Criminal Case Processing

The ability to scan crime scenes for evidence, interpreting and analyzing them to find conclusion for a given crime is not a job suited for everyone. It requires specialized skills and knowledge, especially in terms of the technical aspects of the job such as analysis of blood samples, fingerprints, blood patterns, and other tricky part of the investigation.

Once evidence have been examined, you will then put this side by side with any testimony you have gathered from witnesses. The objective is to have a mental recreation of the events during a crime. During the recreation, investigators can factor in some possible angles of motivation for the crime that would help trace the suspect.

fyeahtechnology:

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