Erica Joy Decker

Oh, hello. This is where I share my learnings.

  1. When it comes to banking, news, and ecommerce, Canadians vastly prefer the .ca domain over .com. Source: Global by Design

    · Global · Internet ·

  2. Japanese honeybees kill hornets by enclosing them in a ball of bees, and then shaking so fast and generating so much heat that they cook the hornet at 115°F. Source: Wikipedia

    · Biology · Nature ·

  3. Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack. Source: WebMD

    · Biology · Nature ·

  4. Disrupt-then-reframe (DTR) has been tested in 14 different studies on hundreds of participants, and has proven to be the most effective persuasion technique. DTR works by first disrupting routine thought processes by presenting information in an unusual way, and then immediately reframing the pitch. While people are distracted by the disruption (for a second or two anyway), they are more likely to just accept the suggested reframe. Source: PsyBlog

    · Psychology ·

  5. The fusiform face area (FFA) of the brain, which is part of the human visual system, is specialized for facial recognition. This is one of the reasons that online video is so compelling compared to text. Source: Wikipedia

    · Biology · Design ·

  6. After dairy farmers noticed their cows had slightly different moos depending on which herd they came from, researchers from the University of London decided to investigate. Some specialists suggested that cows have regional accents like humans. Source: BBC News

    · Biology · Nature ·

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