Outliers - the story of success. Amaia

The article I have chosen to write about is from the New York Times written by Andrew Revkin. This article sums up the problems the United States is going to face unless a solution is proposed to help global warming. This article states that a federal draft report is being written, and once finalized, it will become an official document of the United States government. The article sums up the problems that we are facing/going to face involving agriculture and human health. Global warming is impacting everyone in this world, whether they realize it or not. The strong points on agriculture are as follows: “The rising incidence of weather extremes will have increasingly negative impacts on crop and livestock productivity.” This sums up that the weather patterns due to global warming are hurting our land and food security. Changes in the climate will “affect food processing, storage, transportation, and retailing” as said by the author. As for human health, “Climate change threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including weather events, wildfires, diseases transmitted by insects, food and water, and threats to mental health.” It was mentioned that the U.S. is already undergoing some of these problems in today’s society. 

This is relevant to what we have discussed in class based on the 11th Hour Video. The video made strong points about the effects global warming is/has made on the world already. If a solution isn’t prepared then the world, as we know it, will sooner or later come to an end.

blink book essay javier

Thin Slicing is a term used by psychologist and philosophers, but what does it mean? According to Malcolm Gladwell, “It’s the tendency that we have as human beings to reach very rapid, very profound and sophisticated conclusions based on very thin slices of experiences.” Blink is a book by Malcolm Gladwell explaining this theory of thin-slicing. In the book Gladwell tells us many different stories that have to do with thin-slicing. The book has examples of successful thin-slicing, examples showing how it works and what it accomplishes. It also has stories teaching us, the reader of thin-slicing and how it isn’t all that great and completely accurate as well. Some stories that can teach us lessons, which we can learn from not to make the same mistakes over and over. This book is about the unconscious mind and how we don’t know it but it affects us at every moment whether we notice or not. How the unconscious mind picks up patterns from small amount of information or experiences and we make snap judgments based on those patterns. Which most of the time we don’t notice, unless of course you have trained your mind to recognize these patterns, which there’s an example of in the book. All this thin-slicing has its pros and cons I believe Gladwell’s theory is correct; all his examples are backed up by his theory of thin-slicing. He gives evidence to how it works both positively and negatively. The theory of thin-slicing is that we have the ability as human beings to instantly identify specific patterns from within small amounts of experience or information, and we make instant or snap judgments based upon those patterns. What does this mean; it means that our unconscious holds on to information from previous events. From that information our unconscious recognizes certain patterns from the past and catches similarities in current experiences or events and reacts. This reaction although it may sound a bit complicated happens in mere seconds. 

Inno58h 3D printer workshop

Work done on the last workshop about the 3D printers:


3D Printer -> Consumer ->Service HUBs
                                       -> Sales reps./Agents
                                       -> Universities
                                       -> Diy/Fairs/Shows
                                       ->Publicity chandels -> Internet
                                                                        ->Print
                                       -> Elderly people/young
                 -> Business   -> Demos in companies
                                      -> Diversification of production
                                      -> Road shows/ Trade fairs
                                      -> Advertising/Industrial publications


Advantages: Cost effective



Amaia Gonalez.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!! TEAM MEMBERS TAKING PART IN THE VISIT IN PAROC ON THE 28TH OF NOVEMBER

The names of the team members taking part in the visit:

Aleksi LEINO (aleksi.m.leino@utu.fi)
Elina OJALA (ameoja@utu.fi)
Edward OFORI (edward.ofori@abo.fi)

Working on the blog on the 26th of November

We met with Aleksi, Edward and me on Wednesday to put content in our blog and modify its structure. Unfortunately, the Spaniards couldn't come all the way from Salo to meet with us so they posted their own content later on. We tried to divide the tasks so that the topics that are not covered at the moment, should have more content because it seems that circular economy is dealt with in many posts whereas some topics are not discussed at all.

   

Boys working hard on our blog














Since none of us has ever blogged before we had technical difficulties in making the blog. Luckily, we ran into on IT expert who helped us formulate the structure of the blog so that it is more reader friendly.

IT support guy :)












Elina, Aleksi and Edward

Preparing for the meeting in Paroc on the 28th of November

Me and Aleksi assume that all the Finns know what Paroc Oy manufactures or at least have heard of the company and seen its products wrapped in white and red packages in construction sites. For our international team members, Paroc's web site is a good starting point to get to know the company:

http://www.paroc.fi/

Here is the route planned for Friday:
http://reittiopas.turku.fi/#mapcenter%28kkj3*3240716*6706458%29from%28poi*Tuomiokirkko%2C%20Turku%29to%28address*Skr%C3%A4bb%C3%B6lentie%2014%2C%20Parainen%29timetype%28arrival%29time%280930%29date%2820141128%29mapzoom%281%29


Aleksi, Edward & Elina

Spreading Ideas

How to spread ideas

http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_sliced_bread

Javier tabernilla