Your inner fish

Quieten your inner critic.

Healed by our inner fish?

The “gifts” passed down to us by our ancestors are sometimes more, sometimes less flattering mom’s skeptical spirit, dad’s sense of duty, but then also: granddad’s unfavorably large nose. Traits can help us, or stand in our way depending on how well they are adapted to (and liked by) the people, the environment around us. While the purpose of grandpa’s nose remains puzzling, some inherited trai...

First Catch Your Fish: Designing a “Low Energy Fish” Label

This paper explores the application of information design principles to label design for fish packaging, identifying energy implications for the product. This stage of the project has consisted of: A review and distillation of the relevant literature on information and label design; environmental and labelling standards; and literature on consumer reaction to the design and information content ...

Meaning in motivation: does your organization need an inner life?

Leaders of health care organizations are increasingly interested in ways to attract, retain, and gain commitment from their employees. This interest is created in part because high turnover rates and the lack of commitment negatively affect the provision of care and the bottom line in their organizations. In a quality and cost conscious health care environment, health care managers need to find...

Getting in touch with your inner-city child.

by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund) or the NIEHS. In their senior year, the students must write up their findings, participate in a poster session, and present the research they conducted over the summer in such forums as the North Carolina State Science Fair, the North Carolina Student Academy of Science, and, for the past two years, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annua...