{"id":3593,"date":"2010-11-06T04:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T04:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2010-11-06T04:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T04:39:52","slug":"a-superb-exposition-on-the-power-of-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3593","title":{"rendered":"A Superb Exposition on the Power of Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A work colleague, of great height and formidible baldness, pointed me to a new, dynamic slideware app called <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/index\/\">Prezi<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While Prezi is interesting in itself for those of you condemned to give briefings and presentations, I was intrigued by one of their showcase demos on metaphors. A first rate, concise, presentation on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/metaphorical-thinking.html\">metaphorical thinking\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0by <strong>Adam Somlai-Fischer<\/strong>; a strong cognitive bent, but very reachable for a general audience.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, you should watch this presentation on &#8220;Autoplay&#8221; while listening to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4gNmORwwT9U\"><strong>this<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"prezi-player\">\n<style media=\"screen\" type=\"text\/css\">  .prezi-player {  \tWIDTH: 550px  }  .prezi-player-links {  \tTEXT-ALIGN: center  }<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" id=\"prezi_mojdt36mrozf\" name=\"prezi_mojdt36mrozf\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"prezi_mojdt36mrozf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"prezi_mojdt36mrozf\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"550\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"400\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"prezi_id=mojdt36mrozf&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=no&amp;autohide_ctrls=0\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/bin\/preziloader.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"prezi_mojdt36mrozf\" name=\"prezi_mojdt36mrozf\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"prezi_id=mojdt36mrozf&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=no&amp;autohide_ctrls=0\" src=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/bin\/preziloader.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"prezi-player-links\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/mojdt36mrozf\/mixing-mind-and-metaphor\/\" title=\"Talk by James Geary, given at TED Global 2009 July. Prezi was co-created by James and Adam Somlai-Fischer.See the talk at http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking.html\"><strong>Mixing Mind and Metaphor<\/strong><\/a><strong> on <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\"><strong>Prezi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A work colleague, of great height and formidible baldness, pointed me to a new, dynamic slideware app called Prezi. While Prezi is interesting in itself for those of you condemned to give briefings and presentations, I was intrigued by one of their showcase demos on metaphors. A first rate, concise, presentation on metaphorical thinking\u00a0\u00a0by Adam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,46,119,487,24,33,389,21,471,34,111,525,68,78,462,436,31,220,13,61,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analogy","category-analytic","category-attention","category-brain","category-cognition","category-consilience","category-counterintuitive","category-creativity","category-cultural-intelligence","category-education","category-emotion","category-epistemology","category-fun","category-ideas","category-metacognition","category-psychology","category-synthesis","category-tech","category-theory","category-visualization","category-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}