Dr. Maya Angelou, and how she gains the measure of a person: I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I heard of another such litmus-test of a person's mettle that involved a broken down car, and an upset child. There were three items but the last one eludes ... Read full entry

A handy method of calculating how aggressive an opponent, or opposite number in a sports team could be, check their facial width-to-height ratio... the greater the ratio, the greater the risk it seems. No matter how hard men try, they may not be able to hide their aggression. A study in male ice-hockey players suggests that to gauge a man's aggression levels, you just have to look at the ... Read full entry

An interesting article that explores the ten traits that make up a "creative person". I think there may be more creatives about than we suspect... Creative people alternate between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality. Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present. The rest of society often views these new ideas. as fantasies without ... Read full entry

Small business people and sole traders, how "you" is your business website or portfolio? Does your copy pass the cringe test (see below), and would your own website appeal to you based on its "clarity, intelligence and personality"? Getting more personality into your own website is not necessarily as hard at might sound. Try this experiment. Read your website aloud as if you were explaining to a friend what ... Read full entry

Researchers from the department of Psychology at the University of Leipzig, in Germany, claim to have found a correlation between a person's email address and their personality. Just as eyes are said to be the windows of the soul, e-mail addresses could be the electronic equivalent in the online environment. E-mail addresses represent the thinnest slice of information that people receive from one another. Using 599 e-mail addresses of young ... Read full entry