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Grand Text Auto
General | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Michael’s here at MIT and just gave a great talk. While he was preparing for it, apropos of conversations I’ve had recently with him and Beth Cardier, I wrote something that I think is a story generator, and which is a self-contained 1K python...
Grand Text Auto
General | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Michael’s here at MIT and just gave a great talk. While he was preparing for it, apropos of conversations I’ve had recently with him and Beth Cardier, I wrote something that I think is a story generator, and which is a self-contained 1K python...
Mind Hacks
Friday November 21, 2008 |
If there were prizes for sheer genius, this would get the top spot. Psychologist Alan Reifman teaches psychology and he also writes song lyrics. When he sees something psychological that particularly inspires him, he writes a song about it to the tune of a...
Mind Hacks
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Cognition and Culture is a fantastic new group blog by a distinguished group of writers who include some of the leading figures in neuroscience, psychology and anthropology. It's from the International Cognition and Culture Institute and contains...
Applied Technology Online
Uncategorized | Friday November 21, 2008 |
One of the neat new things I get to do with my new MacBook is watch streaming content from Netflix. Streaming content is not new for Netflix, but it is new for Macs. Netflix recently opened up the streaming service as beta for the Mac platform, only one catch,...
Mind Hacks
Nonsense | Friday November 21, 2008 |
If there were prizes for sheer genius, this would get the top spot. Psychologist Alan Reifman teaches psychology and he also writes song lyrics. When he sees something psychological that particularly inspires him, he writes a song about it to the tune of a...
Mind Hacks
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Synaesthesia is well studied in adults and is thought to be a result of unusual connections created during brain development, but it has been hardly studied in children - until now. A new study published online in Brain searched for letter-colour...
Mind Hacks
Friday November 21, 2008 |
The New York Times takes a look at the ongoing controversy over one of the newest and most popular tests in psychology that claims to be able to detect hidden 'implicit' biases. The test is the Implicit Association Test or IAT and we've discussed in it...
ReadWriteWeb
News | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Google put on a full court media push tonight for a major change the company is making to its search experience. According to the Official Google Blog and a very unusual email the company sent out to press, a new feature called Google Search Wiki will...
ReadWriteWeb
News | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Google put on a full court media push tonight for a major change the company is making to its search experience. According to the Official Google Blog and a very unusual email the company sent out to press, a new feature called Google Search Wiki will...
elearnspace
Uncategorized | Friday November 21, 2008 |
I often hear educators talking about “education needs to change” (I do it too). This is the case for the K-12, higher education, and corporate training/education markets. As a small research project , I’d like to ask people to answer the...
elearnspace
Uncategorized | Friday November 21, 2008 |
I don’t like powerpoint a whole lot. We don’t really have a good alternative for presentations. I’ve been experimenting with different approaches. Most recent is PersonalBrain, which I used for my presentation at E-Learn 2008 in Vegas today....
elearnspace
Uncategorized | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Common Craft has produced a short explanatory video on Microsoft Live. The internet is starting to look like the desktop in the 80’s - numerous companies trying to mainstream new applications through a new centre. Microsoft integrated a variety of...
CogDogBlog
Blog Pile | Friday November 21, 2008 |
I have come across a new, and less desirable mode of blogging. Someone who just grabs something, tosses it on the glass, and leans their thumb on the green “copy” button of the Xerox machine (I thought of writing this as a “ditto”...
CogDogBlog
Blog Pile | Friday November 21, 2008 |
I have come across a new, and less desirable mode of blogging. Someone who just grabs something, tosses it on the glass, and leans their thumb on the green “copy” button of the Xerox machine (I thought of writing this as a “ditto”...
Wikispaces : Second Life in Education - all changes
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Second Life in Education Jo Kay and Sean FitzGerald Explore the Educational Uses of Second Life Introduction Welcome to the Second Life in Education Wiki. This space is designed to provide an overview of the educational possibilities of...
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
A discussion (transcription and audio available) over at the NYPL: A LIVE from the NYPL forum on the global economic crisis with three leading authorities: Nouriel Roubini (NYU) was one of the earliest and most persistent economists warning us of the...
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
A discussion (transcription and audio available) over at the NYPL: A LIVE from the NYPL forum on the global economic crisis with three leading authorities: Nouriel Roubini (NYU) was one of the earliest and most persistent economists warning us of the...
Psychology Today Blogs
Evolutionary | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Another common misperception about science, which is held even by many social scientists, is that, both in our ancestral past and in many developing nations today, people die at a much younger age than they do in contemporary western industrialized nations. ...
Psychology Today Blogs
Evolutionary | Friday November 21, 2008 |
Another common misperception about science, which is held even by many social scientists, is that, both in our ancestral past and in many developing nations today, people die at a much younger age than they do in contemporary western industrialized nations. ...
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Paul Davidson offers some ideas: In the 21st century interdependent global economy, a substantial degree of economic cooperation among trading nations is essential. The original Keynes Plan for reforming the international payments system called for the...
3quarksdaily
Friday November 21, 2008 |
Paul Davidson offers some ideas: In the 21st century interdependent global economy, a substantial degree of economic cooperation among trading nations is essential. The original Keynes Plan for reforming the international payments system called for the...
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