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#2,078 – China’s Weather Modification System

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

In recent decades, as the country has grown wealthier, Earth-altering projects such as the Three Gorges Dam have become a favored solution. Weather modification, by comparison, is relatively inexpensive. By 2015, there were rainmaking and hail-suppression programs in 30 Chinese provinces , employing some 35,000 people.”

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Content recommendations and the creation of emotions

Boxes and Arrows

Interpretation is projection. Cultural groups should be the base groups for comparison and not national, social, or demographic groups. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2015-02-28. [2] Because the hungry person is more agitated. Conclusion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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InnovationIQ – Score your Innovation readiness

Innovation 360 Group

0 2015 0 2016. How innovative is your organisation in comparison with the rest of your industry? We recommend best practices for assigning innovative development projects across three horizons. Innovation IQ. InnovationIQ Score. Prepare to regularly revitalise your core value proposition through internal and external innovation.

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If you want someone to make a decision, give them fewer choices

Idea to Value

While one meta-analysis of choice overload in 2010 found only limited evidence for choice overload, and a lot of positive aspects of additional choices, a more recent and larger 2015 meta-analysis did indeed find strong evidence for choice overload leading to fewer options resulting in more being chosen.