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How to Save New Brain Cells
There may be some neurological truth to those claims that memorizing lists or daily Sudoku encourages mental limberness. Even more importantly, the results lend some support that people in early stages of Alzheimers disease may slow their cognitive declin
Will you perceive the event that kills you?
We are always living nearly one-half second in the past. Now, it isn't surprising that there is some delay between an event and our becoming aware of it. This is the normal unfolding of cause and effect. This might not be a concern if we were just passive
New tools to help with information overload
Take a scientific question like the genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees. Would you prefer to plough through an essay on the subject, or to glance at the visualization created by Fry in which the 75,000 letters of coding in the human genome f
The Ambassadors – look and learn
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, is a portrait of two Frenchmen, one an ambassador to the court of King Henry VIII, the other a cleric. They are leaning on a cupboard with displays, on the upper shelf objects referring to the heavens and, on
Group Think
The explosion of online materials has two, somewhat contradictory effects. The scope of available information expands, remarkably so; but as a consequence, the information needs to be filtered somehow.
Never Say Die: Why We Can't Imagine Death
"And so person permanence may be the final cognitive hurdle that gets in the way of our effectively realizing the dead as they truly are—infinitely in situ, inanimate carbon residue. Instead it's much more "natural" to imagine them as existing in some vag
Why is laughter almost non-existent in ancient Greek sculpture?
Electrical Engineering professor Yannis Tsividis raises the question, why is it that we very rarely see laughter depicted in ancient Greek sculpture? From the range of scholarly answers, you get the peculiar sense that we "moderns" are not in a position t
The Itch
Brain's best guess theory of perception: perception is the brain's best guess about what is happening in the outside world.
Your brain lies to you
Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth. False beliefs are everywhere, and efforts to dispel misinformation are more difficult than one would expect because of quirky way our brains store memories and continue to mislead us.
The Myth of Multitasking
Christine Rosen points to a spate of recent studies that suggest multitasking is a poor strategy for learning, and even if you do learn, that learning is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily.
Why pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect,' and gets it totally wrong
Pop culture references to the butterfly effect are wrong-headed physics, but they reveal how the public thinks about science.
10 facts about learning that are scientifically proven and interesting for teachers
Donald Clark points to ten evidence-based facts about learning.
Curriculum Designed to Unite Art and Science
“You can study music, dance, narrative storytelling and artmaking scientifically, and you can conclude that yes, they’re deeply biologically driven, they’re essential to our species, but there would still be something missing, and that thing is an a
Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower
Carefully structured training in working memory based on a variation of the Concentration card game leads to improvements in fluid intelligence--the kind of mental ability that lets us solve new problems without having any previous experience, and that ha
The New Paternalism
Richard thaler and Cass Sunstein articulate an approach to designing social and economic policies that incorporates an understanding of people's cognitive limitations, nudging.
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
The spacing effect posits that the best time to study something is at the moment you are about to forget it--an insight that is useless in the real world, until Piotr Wozniak introduced SuperMemo.
Death of the guidebook: lost in a cutthroat world
In times past, the only way to research a guidebook was to actually go there — the alternative, plagiarising another guidebook, was, and still is, difficult to cover up. Today, you can sit at home and Google the town you might otherwise be exploring..."
Blogging Darwin
Adam Rutherford: "The theory of evolution is supported by so many facts that as far as science goes, it's as irrefutable as the theory of gravity. If you enjoy knocking the scientific method by challenging ideas far from this level of certainty, try strin
The Art of Doing Something Well
Even in our post-industrial society, western economies continually create niche markets for craftsmanship: wine-making, artisanal coffee, linux software, handmade furniture.
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