SOME OF THE INTERESTING GRAPHICS recently found at certain online sources, two of which are real and one is creative.
[Stock prices of three of the UK's largest banks bite dust. The most hit is Fred's RBS, which was eroded close to Zero pence. source: Economist.com]
[Three talk-of-the-doom-town financial phenomena: Long Tail, Tipping Point, and the Black Swan. source: Longtail.com]
[Fall of capitalism and the *new* United States by c.2010 (Or, apparently, Divided States?). source: WSJ.com]
There are two kinds of self-fulfilling prophecies. They are broadly defined by wiki as follows: The Pygmalion effect , or Rosenthal effect, is the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, the better they perform. On the other hand is the Golem effect , in which low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The theme was in the main stray of many English literary works during the victorian era. One of which is George Bernard Shaw's play titled "Pygmalion" from which Rosenthal effect gets its name. In Shaw's play, the protagonist, a professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. (The pl
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