http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/rosa-parks-alexander-stephens-statuary-hall
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Anti bullying day
Why Brain Science Findings Change How We Should Communicate - Part 3
Why Brain Science Findings Change How We Should Communicate - Part 3
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorgan/2013/02/26/why-brain-science-findings-change-how-we-should-communicate-part-3/
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
MapMyRun, Check it out!
Hello,
I wanted you to know that I just completed the following workout:
Workout: Run
Date: Feb 26, 2013
Distance: 10.60 km
Duration: 1:06:47
To view 'Ran 10.60 km on 2/26/13', follow the link below:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_workout?w=237320212
You can also view my profile and add me as a Friend here:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/user_profile?u=949131092583319969
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Thanks,
Jerry
I wanted you to know that I just completed the following workout:
Workout: Run
Date: Feb 26, 2013
Distance: 10.60 km
Duration: 1:06:47
To view 'Ran 10.60 km on 2/26/13', follow the link below:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_workout?w=237320212
You can also view my profile and add me as a Friend here:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/user_profile?u=949131092583319969
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Thanks,
Jerry
Monday, February 25, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
9% through Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by Hawkins, David R. on Kindle for Android! http://www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid/
Friday, February 22, 2013
Cal Stead's Obituary
Cal Stead's Obituary.
Thanks everybody for all your notes, messages, emails, FB's. Your support has been priceless.
I lucked into the sibling lottery. All my sisters are angels, and one (no names KRISTI) is an iron angel. Grace and grit, cotton and steel; you choose the metaphor or simile. Must include a heart as wide as the world and a will that is unbreakable and indomitable. Spiritual bamboo. Strength and flexibility. I'll stop now.
I've read and continue to read everything from you all. If I haven't responded, please don't take it personally, just been a lot going on.
Cal liked to bug me about how much time I spent on Social Media, so it's perfectly ironic (yes, ironic, Cal) that I continue the discourse about him here.
Cal's obituary will be in the following media:
Time Colonist - tomorrow, Saturday February 23 and Sunday February 24
North Shore News - Sunday, February 24
Vancouver Sun - tomorrow, Saturday February 23
Vancouver Province - Sunday, February 24
May you all be filled with loving kindness.
Jerry
Thanks everybody for all your notes, messages, emails, FB's. Your support has been priceless.
I lucked into the sibling lottery. All my sisters are angels, and one (no names KRISTI) is an iron angel. Grace and grit, cotton and steel; you choose the metaphor or simile. Must include a heart as wide as the world and a will that is unbreakable and indomitable. Spiritual bamboo. Strength and flexibility. I'll stop now.
I've read and continue to read everything from you all. If I haven't responded, please don't take it personally, just been a lot going on.
Cal liked to bug me about how much time I spent on Social Media, so it's perfectly ironic (yes, ironic, Cal) that I continue the discourse about him here.
Cal's obituary will be in the following media:
Time Colonist - tomorrow, Saturday February 23 and Sunday February 24
North Shore News - Sunday, February 24
Vancouver Sun - tomorrow, Saturday February 23
Vancouver Province - Sunday, February 24
May you all be filled with loving kindness.
Jerry
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Calvin Stead, 1962 - 2013, Rest in Peace.
Calvin Stead, July 7, 1962 - February 19, 2013, Rest in Peace.
The following - below the line - is from my sister, Cal's wife, Kris Stead.
I will write my own thoughts about my hero, teacher, friend, and brother in law soon, but this deserves to shine alone. To all of you who were lucky enough to know Cal in his life, please hold him, Kristi, Molly and Anna in your hearts, say a prayer or tip a glass to him.
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Hello all,
It is with great sadness that I write to let you know that Cal passed away today. We saw him off on his final journey; he was surrounded by love and was at peace.
We will have a service in North Vancouver. We thank you all for your kind, loving messages to Cal and all of us. We also thank you so much for your prayers - it meant a lot.
with love,
Kris, Anna and Molly
The following - below the line - is from my sister, Cal's wife, Kris Stead.
I will write my own thoughts about my hero, teacher, friend, and brother in law soon, but this deserves to shine alone. To all of you who were lucky enough to know Cal in his life, please hold him, Kristi, Molly and Anna in your hearts, say a prayer or tip a glass to him.
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Hello all,
It is with great sadness that I write to let you know that Cal passed away today. We saw him off on his final journey; he was surrounded by love and was at peace.
We will have a service in North Vancouver. We thank you all for your kind, loving messages to Cal and all of us. We also thank you so much for your prayers - it meant a lot.
with love,
Kris, Anna and Molly
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Unpleasant if true:Pope Allegedly Sought Immunity For Abuse Crimes Just Before Resigning
Pope Allegedly Sought Immunity For Abuse Crimes Just Before Resigning
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/14/pope-allegedly-sought-immunity-for-abuse-crimes-just-before-resigning/
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Man building homemade bombs arrested in alleged plot to kill CA Dem. lawmaker who pushed anti-assault weapon laws
Man building homemade bombs arrested in alleged plot to kill CA Dem. lawmaker who pushed anti-assault weapon laws
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/02/14/man-building-homemade-bombs-arrested-in-alleged-plot-to-kill-ca-dem-lawmaker-who-pushed-anti-assault-weapon-laws/
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More great critical thinking skills and gradeschool rhetoric from the NRA
NRA CEO: "It's not paranoia to buy a gun. It's survival"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57569380/nra-ceo-its-not-paranoia-to-buy-a-gun-its-survival/
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Tea Party discourse reaching new lows
Tea Party group "created video that showed woman dressed as a PANDA performing sex act on Hillary Clinton impersonator"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279016/Tea-Party-group-created-video-showed-woman-dressed-PANDA-performing-sex-act-Hillary-Clinton-impersonator.html
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
george harrison tribute my sweet lord billy preston lead vocal - YouTube
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2BmfhmSkM (sent via Shareaholic)
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my sweet lord tribute to george harrison
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my sweet lord tribute to george harrison
The almost perfect siren song.
The almost perfect siren song. The pot's great, but *with* coffee it would be at a whole 'nother level.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Inviting Ted Nugent to the State of the Union is usually the last step before staging a musical about Nazis. http://bit.ly/X3PP9z
Inviting Ted Nugent to the State of the Union is usually the last step before staging a musical about Nazis. http://bit.ly/X3PP9z
The Perpetual Motion Machine (Define Apophasis)
{Whatever I have, whatever I am, can only be described by what I am not. Ape faces in the crowd.
There, and there and
There.
My thoughts like taffy, reaching out and connecting:
You, and you, and
You.
Indra's net, everyday, everything is everything. Which can be overwhelming. Maybe that's why I try to catch it all.
The Ape Face in the crowd. This is the Invisible Gorilla gone mad. Problem is, I see him everywhere, and I connect him with him with
Him.
And the Muse sits whispering sweet some-things into my ear which i gently take apart and put together in words, pictures, letters, and laughter. Laughter which elevates and equalizes the many and hurts (almost irreparably but penultimately) - the few.}
//All of the above from a juxtaposition - a lady with a Hello Kitty doll and a real cat scratching post - the perfect photo shot - lost. I followed her with my peripheral vision up the stairs, tried and tried again to get the shot to express the the juxtaposition which was somehow part of the apophasis that defines the undefinable, expresses me through the not-me.
Couldn't get the shot, lost forever
Turned the music back on, and kept my eye out for more Ape Faces out there.
They're everywhere.
Everywhere.
#deconstructionavailableviashadechaser@gmail.com
Monday, February 11, 2013
RT @WpnsGradeStupid Fox News’ Ailes earns his Ph.D. In Projection: Says Obama Wants ‘Blacks to Hate Whites’ http://www.nationalmemo.com/fox-news-ailes-speaks-for-the-gop-says-obama-wants-blacks-to-hate-whites/
RT @WpnsGradeStupid Fox News' Ailes earns his Ph.D. In Projection: Says Obama Wants 'Blacks to Hate Whites'
http://www.nationalmemo.com/fox-news-ailes-speaks-for-the-gop-says-obama-wants-blacks-to-hate-whites/
Bloody fascinating;the text as well as the map:Heat Mapping Springsteen: How the Boss Went Viral in a Pre-Internet Era http://bit.ly/Ynu04Y
Bloody fascinating;the text as well as the map:Heat Mapping Springsteen: How the Boss Went Viral in a Pre-Internet Era http://bit.ly/Ynu04Y
Lauren Drain, Former Westboro Baptist Church Member, Poses For NOH8 Campaign (PHOTO) http://bit.ly/V1Inkb
Lauren Drain, Former Westboro Baptist Church Member, Poses For NOH8 Campaign (PHOTO) http://bit.ly/V1Inkb
Deepak Chopra - Feel Like a Butterfly, See Like a Bee? - The Mystery of Perception http://bit.ly/14PeZhK
Deepak Chopra - Feel Like a Butterfly, See Like a Bee? - The Mystery of Perception http://bit.ly/14PeZhK
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Explorers complete Shackleton's epic Antarctic journey http://bit.ly/UWpoaG
Explorers complete Shackleton's epic Antarctic journey http://bit.ly/UWpoaG
Mobile. Pick up. So much wrong with cineplex's 2.0 model I don't know where to start.
Mobile. Pick up. So much wrong with cineplex's
2.0 model I don't know where to start.
7.3 km bf in. #woodstock
I am listening to Fixin' to Die Rag by McDonald, Country Joe and the Fish on SKY.FM Classic Rock with TuneIn Radio. http://tun.in/sev0k
3 km in bf run. Appropriate tuneage
I am listening to Darker Days by Ufo on SKY.FM Classic Rock with TuneIn Radio. http://tun.in/sev0k
Saturday, February 9, 2013
The Lesson of the Bush Family Email Hack: Be Worried | http://bit.ly/WVPd96
The Lesson of the Bush Family Email Hack: Be Worried | http://bit.ly/WVPd96
5 Social Apps To Encourage Employee Health and Wellness http://buff.ly/14KES21
5 Social Apps To Encourage Employee Health and Wellness http://buff.ly/14KES21
Daily Mail - UK: Man receives touching letter from emergency room doctor in the wake of his wife's death
A moving letter from a physician to a recently widowed man has touched people around the world as it goes viral online.
The letter was posted to Reddit this week by a man who's mother had passed away.
She died in the hospital struggling to breath after a battle with lung cancer.
The Redditor, going by the user name Mcharb13, told the Huffington Post the letter was meant for his father.
"If my mother were alive to see this, she would want readers to reflect on the power of showing compassion towards a total stranger," he said. "The support I got from Reddit was amazing - doctors, nurses and other Redditors who have lost their mothers to cancer were all shocked and amazed that the doctor took the time to write such a heartfelt, meaningful letter."...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276367/Man-receives-touching-letter-emergency-room-doctor-wake-wifes-death.html
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Interesting to contemplate: Near-Death Experiences Explained by Quantum Physicists http://bit.ly/WWR1yO
Interesting to contemplate: Near-Death Experiences Explained by Quantum Physicists http://bit.ly/WWR1yO
Om Namah Shivaya: Hindus dive into Ganges for Kumbh Mela religious festival http://bit.ly/VNuoyL
Om Namah Shivaya: Hindus dive into Ganges for Kumbh Mela religious festival http://bit.ly/VNuoyL
When Twitter attacks:how trolls use social media to silence | The Tech Chronicles | an http://buff.ly/ysipjs blog http://buff.ly/UT3ume
When Twitter attacks:how trolls use social media to silence | The Tech Chronicles | an http://buff.ly/ysipjs blog http://buff.ly/UT3ume
Cool, no, really cool:3D printing with stem cells could lead to printable organs http://bit.ly/Y9gwcP
Cool, no, really cool:3D printing with stem cells could lead to printable organs http://bit.ly/Y9gwcP
Can't wait! http://buff.ly/Afzhtk: saving faith by deepak chopra: Books http://bit.ly/Y9kCBV
Can't wait! http://buff.ly/Afzhtk: saving faith by deepak chopra: Books http://bit.ly/Y9kCBV
Want: Happy camper: Tuk tucked up in bed: The one-man camper van that is perfect for the lonely traveller http://bit.ly/11tA8A5
Want: Happy camper: Tuk tucked up in bed: The one-man camper van that is perfect for the lonely traveller http://bit.ly/11tA8A5
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church Mouthpiece, Responds To Daughters' Defections http://bit.ly/Xs15Mm
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church Mouthpiece, Responds To Daughters' Defections http://bit.ly/Xs15Mm
Friday, February 8, 2013
TED Books
"Faced with the challenge of severe environmental change, our forebears invented language and writing. It seems clear that we again face an inflection point in the history of our species at which better tools might make the difference between advancement and extinction."
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"My time as editor of Whole Earth Review introduced me to the great practical, radical philosopher of technology Ivan Illich, who made the a distinction between "convivial tools" and the kinds of technology that deaden, poison, dull, and imprison the human spirit. Such a distinction — which entails the possibility of bringing in other aspects of human character (compassion, for instance) into the design of tools — elevated the dialogue about technology beyond the Manichaean "utopia versus enslavement" arguments.75 I would caution those who follow the directions pointed out in this book to keep both Weizenbaum and Illich in mind when building and using augmentation technologies."
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"Simply being able to reason more effectively is not only unlikely to improve the human condition in the absence of other, more humane capacities, Weizenbaum warned: it can do harm."
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"Stigmergy is the name for the way complex activities or structures can emerge without any kind of central planning and control. "
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"62 PatientsLikeMe, an online community for patients, families and caregivers, used its own data to publish its own clinical trial questioning the effectiveness of using lithium carbonate to slow the progress of the disease ALS.6"
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""Collective intelligence" refers to the myriad emerging ways that populations are putting together their individual brainpower and computing power via online networks to uncover and aggregate knowledge; crowdsourcing is a technique that is used for many other purposes as well, using computers and networks to divide tasks into small pieces and portioning out the work to large numbers of people. The hybrid of communicated collaboration and crowdsourcing, only a few years old, has produced prodigious results in diverse fields. Wikipedia is proof of the claim that networked, computer-equipped individuals can aggregate knowledge as a collective, voluntary enterprise. In China, they are known as "human flesh search engines" — online groups that divide the labor of sleuthing information among thousands of volunteers.61 "
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"Richard Feynman famously forecast the rise of nanotechnology when he declared, "There's plenty of room at the bottom."55"
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"a great deal of the processing of visual information is computed by parts of the human visual system before it reaches the brain.54 "
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"3 A computer program is a virtual machine that directs the operation of the computer's hardwired virtual machine (its "firmware"). From the most fundamental physical level to the most sophisticated human-computer interface, your computer's hierarchy of abstractions chunks, piles up, and configures machine abstractions to make it easier for humans to apply the machines to our intellectual questions."
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"Computers themselves are an unanticipated consequence of the search for a systematization of abstraction. Mathematician Alan Turing famously used the thought experiment that has become known as the Turing machine as part of a proof that mathematics could never be completely described by any logical system.50 When John von Neumann and others connected Turing's imaginary machine with George Boole's algebra of logic and hitched them up to mechanical calculators, machines that could perform aspects of thought became possible.51 When the physical tokens used for manipulating abstractions were first used to represent logical functions, and the logical functions were instantiated as an electrical circuit, the abstraction of abstraction became increasingly a human-machine process. The use of computers to solve human problems through the mediation of symbolic languages became a "fifth language," according to Logan, together with speech, the alphabet, mathematics, science, and printing. The use of Internet-based media, in Logan's view, is the sixth language.52"
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"Connecting the concept of tiger with the concepts of watering hole and sundown would have been a further, useful self-teaching device 100,000 years ago. Learning to convey to another person the notion of "tiger" through the use of gestures and audible utterances, perhaps picking up a stick to make a sketch of a sabertooth in the sand, not only multiplied the power of conceptual abstraction by attaching this mode of thought to a mode of communication, it introduced a powerful way to build mind-tools — abstracting abstraction. The idea of a tiger is represented conceptually in an individual mind, then abstracted to another level of symbolization by associating the concept with a human utterance. "
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"Abstraction — lumping, chunking, categorizing a number of simple concepts into a single, more complex concept (such as using the word "alphabet" to describe any collection of letters that serve as building blocks for words) — was one of the initial elements of culture (together with social learning, language, and mimesis)."
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"Note that learning about metacognition can lead to actually performing metacognition more effectively. "While there are several approaches to metacognitive instruction," writes Jennifer Livingston, professor of educational psychology at State University of New York, Buffalo, "the most effective involve providing the learner with both knowledge of cognitive processes and strategies (to be used as metacognitive knowledge), and experience or practice in using both cognitive and metacognitive strategies and evaluating the outcomes of their efforts (develops metacognitive regulation). Simply providing knowledge without experience or vice versa does not seem to be sufficient for the development of metacognitive control."44"
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"Metacognition" means thinking about thinking. "Metacognitive strategies" enable people to apply attention management to new learning tasks, a higher-order form of cognition in which the thinker takes over active control of cognitive processes. It sounds dizzying, but reflective awareness of one's own thinking processes is the fundamental mind-tool, useful in mastering higher-order methodologies. Paying attention to their own attention has had a payoff for meditators for thousands of years, and modern neuroscientific research confirms the claims of meditative disciplines that the mind can be used to master the mind."
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"Make no mistake about the Faustian origins of computing machinery. Just as the proto-human brain's capability to make fast ballistic calculations may have been exapted by linguistic word-marshaling capabilities, the machines that Engelbart wanted to use to help humans solve problems were originally created to perform ballistic calculations"
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"in 1960 he published "Man-Computer Symbiosis," in which he proclaimed a vision: "The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today."35"
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"As explicated by Elizabeth Eisenstein in The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, the vast expansion of reading-powered thinkers from a tiny elite, handpicked and supported by the Church, into entire populations during the Protestant Reformation, made new collective cultural forms possible.32 Instead of waiting for an Aristotle or a Newton to come along, science became a collective enterprise, with thousands of literate observers adding data and building upon each other's work. The revolutions that replaced monarchs with constitutions were led by literates who coordinated the overthrow of old orders and then wrote the charters for new ones."
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"Logan says, "By forcing us to both analyze and unpack abstractions when we decode letters and phonemes, by training our thinking in sequential ordering, by providing a classification schema through alphabetization, the alphabet makes it far easier to think in certain ways.""
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"The alphabet effect "Do you still argue that the alphabet created the unique conditions for the flowering of science, logic, and mathematics in ancient Greece?" I asked Logan, when we had dinner in September 2010. "Absolutely," he replied with enthusiasm. Logan is a physicist by training, but he has followed the discipline of historical media analysis pioneered by Harold Innis, Walter Ong, and Logan's mentor and co-author, Marshall McLuhan. Logan then quoted McLuhan's book The Gutenberg Galaxy: "By the meaningless sign linked to the meaningless sound we have built the shape and meaning of Western man."29 The Greek alphabet built on its Semitic and Phoenician predecessors by adding a few vowels to a couple dozen consonants. "If you have meaningful signs like ideograms that resemble something visually," Logan told me, "you'll need thousands of signs.""
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"In Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation: Summaries and Findings, evolutionary anthropologists Robert Boyd, Joseph Henrich, and Peter Richerson argue that human cooperation has enormously beneficial social technology, which evolved culturally as behavioral and emotional traits that spread and persisted within groups. This is similar to how genetically endowed traits evolve over long time spans.25 (Richard Dawkins and Susan Blackmore, who have proposed and elaborated theories of "memes" — units of meaning that propagate via human minds and networks — have converged on similar ideas from an evolutionary perspective.)26 27"
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"Reading is not just a vehicle for conveying useful knowledge and a mind-altering thought-tool. Another important function of language and writing is coordinating social activity, whether that's the Code of Hammurabi or the U.S. Constitution. We expect reading to amplify cooperation, which in turn catalyzes new institutions and forms of sociality. Some anthropologists identify cooperation as the most powerful social meta-tool that humans have invented so far. British scientist Matt Ridley put it this way: When we moved away from self-sufficiency and began to work together, combining our knowledge, the consequence was far-reaching: We created things we could not and do not understand, from cordless mice to urban metropolises. Cooperation turned us into specialists: I'll do this job, you do that one. Specialization gave us incentives to innovate. Innovation led to yet more specialization and more ways of combining different specialized skills. Human intelligence became collective and cumulative to an extent that no other species can rival.24"
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"Some anthropologists identify cooperation as the most powerful social meta-tool that humans have invented so far."
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"Stanislas Dehaene, in Reading and the Brain, reminds us of Plato's warning (in the guise of a dialogue between a god-king, Thamus, and a god, Theuth, inventor of letters) that writing and reading with the newly developed Greek alphabet will cause memories to wither, "having the show of wisdom without the reality.""
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"Because "nerves that fire together, wire together" (aka Hebb's Postulate), the rote evocation of association between sounds, meanings, and alphabetic symbols actually grooves certain neural networks, certain cognitive maneuvers, into students' brains."
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"Consider just a few of the things our brains have to do when we read. We have to recognize a visual pattern, decode the meaning assigned to perceptible symbols, arrange and deconstruct sequences of letters and words, and plan sentences. Each of these tasks is accomplished by different brain regions and neural networks"
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"Inventions build on previous inventions; abstractions encapsulate previous abstractions. "
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"When we gained words as containers for ideas, humans started to think in concepts instead of percepts"
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"Even the least creative person invents new sentences every day."
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Morality Quiz/Test your Morals, Values & Ethics - Your Morals.Org http://bit.ly/W4NPzG
Morality Quiz/Test your Morals, Values & Ethics - Your Morals.Org http://bit.ly/W4NPzG
Talent this good is a window to something greater than ourselves. But he worked his ass off too. http://grooveshark.com/s/Take+The+A+Train/2VK5SF?src=5
Talent this good is a window to something greater than ourselves. But he worked his ass off too. http://grooveshark.com/s/Take+The+A+Train/2VK5SF?src=5
Listening to Tempus Fugit by Chick Corea #nowplaying http://grooveshark.com/s/Tempus+Fugit/3qCJTe?src=5 via @grooveshark
Listening to Tempus Fugit by Chick Corea #nowplaying http://grooveshark.com/s/Tempus+Fugit/3qCJTe?src=5 via @grooveshark
Misleading title and I don't know about the science street cred, but interesting: "...universe is a giant brain" ...http://bit.ly/WWRp1i
Misleading title and I don't know about the science street cred, but interesting: "...universe is a giant brain" ...http://bit.ly/WWRp1i
We shall overcome-Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sesions Band - YouTube http://bit.ly/W46Emw
We shall overcome-Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sesions Band - YouTube http://bit.ly/W46Emw
Bruce Springsteen - My Fathers House (acoustic)-YouTube http://bit.ly/WTShCH
Bruce Springsteen - My Fathers House (acoustic)-YouTube http://bit.ly/WTShCH
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Twitter to enable searches for tweets older than a week | Internet & Media - CNET News http://buff.ly/VKEyjs
Twitter to enable searches for tweets older than a week | Internet & Media - CNET News http://buff.ly/VKEyjs
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church Mouthpiece, Responds To Daughters' Defections http://bit.ly/Xs15Mm
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church Mouthpiece, Responds To Daughters' Defections http://bit.ly/Xs15Mm
Obama Released Bush's Torture Memos. Why Not Release the Targeted-Killing Memos? | Mother Jones http://bit.ly/YezWgw
Obama Released Bush's Torture Memos. Why Not Release the Targeted-Killing Memos? | Mother Jones http://bit.ly/YezWgw
Want: Happy camper: Tuk tucked up in bed: The one-man camper van that is perfect for the lonely traveller http://bit.ly/11tA8A5
Want: Happy camper: Tuk tucked up in bed: The one-man camper van that is perfect for the lonely traveller http://bit.ly/11tA8A5
Chet Faker - No Diggity (Live Sessions)-YouTube http://bit.ly/W0iKwT
Chet Faker - No Diggity (Live Sessions)-YouTube http://bit.ly/W0iKwT
Bears repeating that this is worth repeating: Scala and Kolacny Brothers - With or Without You-YouTube http://bit.ly/WRFZuE
Bears repeating that this is worth repeating: Scala and Kolacny Brothers - With or Without You-YouTube http://bit.ly/WRFZuE
Hear that? It's consultant of the year nondualist super hero guy taking credit for a palette that wasn't his to begin with.
Hear that? It's consultant of the year nondualist super hero guy taking credit for a palette that wasn't his to begin with.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind | Gizmodo UK http://bit.ly/WPuTq1
20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind | Gizmodo UK http://bit.ly/WPuTq1
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Stop celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. - Matt Rindge - Red Letter Christians http://buff.ly/WMxsJp
Stop celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. - Matt Rindge - Red Letter Christians http://buff.ly/WMxsJp
Can't wait! http://buff.ly/Afzhtk: saving faith by deepak chopra: Books http://bit.ly/Y9kCBV
Can't wait! http://buff.ly/Afzhtk: saving faith by deepak chopra: Books http://bit.ly/Y9kCBV
Go Karl! Go Tea Party!Tea Party Nation leader: Karl Rove the 'poster child for crony consultants' http://buff.ly/11obMb4 #gopsoylentgreen
Go Karl! Go Tea Party!Tea Party Nation leader: Karl Rove the 'poster child for crony consultants' http://buff.ly/11obMb4 #gopsoylentgreen
Cool, no, really cool:3D printing with stem cells could lead to printable organs http://bit.ly/Y9gwcP
Cool, no, really cool:3D printing with stem cells could lead to printable organs http://bit.ly/Y9gwcP
Monday, February 4, 2013
When Twitter attacks:how trolls use social media to silence | The Tech Chronicles | an http://buff.ly/ysipjs blog http://buff.ly/UT3ume
When Twitter attacks:how trolls use social media to silence | The Tech Chronicles | an http://buff.ly/ysipjs blog http://buff.ly/UT3ume
This is how much paint it would take to cover the surface of Canada. You're welcome. 8.321×10^11 L (liters)
This is how much paint it would take to cover the surface of Canada. You're welcome. 8.321×10^11 L (liters)
Courtesy Wolfram Alpha
Great Songwriting. Heart Filling. A Great Big World - This is the New Year http://bit.ly/XcbBch
Great Songwriting. Heart Filling. A Great Big World - This is the New Year http://bit.ly/XcbBch
This should give you a hit of Up. http://youtu.be/C8IqcLVDr2o
This should give you a hit of Up. http://youtu.be/C8IqcLVDr2o
Bad Advice Cat Meme Generator - Got Philosophy? http://bit.ly/Xc7bSO
Bad Advice Cat Meme Generator - Got Philosophy? http://bit.ly/Xc7bSO
If you are a friend of God, fire is your water. You should wish to have a hundred thousand sets of mothwings, so you could burn them away, one set a night. -Rumi
If you are a friend of God, fire is your water.
You should wish to have a hundred thousand sets of mothwings,
so you could burn them away, one set a night. -Rumi
You should wish to have a hundred thousand sets of mothwings,
so you could burn them away, one set a night. -Rumi
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