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Google reveals our most popular 2013 New Year’s Resolution – to find love

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Google is mapping our 2013 New Year Resolutions and it appears that this year what we want to find most is love.

Social Media

A year of tweets – 2012’s most popular & important Twitter updates

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Twitter has released its review of 2012, showing the most popular and important tweets of an eventful year for the social network.

Social Media

Facebook’s Year in Review – Did you mention these topics on Facebook in 2012?

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Facebook has revealed its year end review of the most mentioned topics on the site as well as an application that allows you to create your own timeline review of 2012.

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A man falling from space & robots on other planets: Google’s global Zeitgeist reveals what we searched for in 2012

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

Google has revealed what we searched for in 2012, in its annual Search Zeitgeist report. From Martian rovers to a man jumping from space, this was 2012 in search terms.

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Why don’t we tweet what we Google? Can end-of-year lists tell us about the year?

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Can Twitter's yearly trends and Google Zeitgeist really tell us about the past year?

Brains Byte Back

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

Randon Heim is the host of “Don’t worry, We’ll talk it out,” a podcast exploring the fundamental concepts that drive how we perceive the world. “The Psychology of a Riot,” “The Black Death: Coronavirus and Race Relations,” and “Ignorance is Bliss: How Anti-Intellectualism Ruined America,” are just a few examples of subjects Heim has covered on his show, but today he joins us to discuss Cancel Culture.

If you are unfamiliar with the term Cancel Culture… well, you are in the right place, but to give you a brief description now, Cancel Culture refers to the act of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies that have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive.

In this episode, we discuss the positive and negative use case of Cancel Culture, how innocent citizens have been impacted by this, and beloved historical figure who could have been impacted by Cancel Culture due to skeletons in their closets.

In addition to the above, since it is impossible to future proof what we say or post against the moral standard of tomorrow, we explore how society’s perception of past comments, pictures, or posts will evolve in time, and what it will take for us to find a healthy relationship with Cancel Culture.