Classes. Open Textbooks. Super Web Lists. EduPolicy. Wildfire // JENI // SBTRKT ft. Drake & Little Dragon. SelfDefense. Learning Tools. CourseDesign. Process Improvement. Project Mgt. Toxins. EduOnline. Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut's Incensed Letter to the High School That Burned Slaughterhouse-Five. Images of Vonnegut and Cumberbatch, via Wikimedia Commons If you’ve kept up with Open Culture for a while, you know that Kurt Vonnegut could write a good letter, whether home from World War II, to high school students, to other writers, to John F.
Kennedy, or to the future. You also know that Benedict Cumberbatch can give a good reading, whether of literature like The Metamorphosis and Moby Dick or more directly personal words from Alan Turing or a Guantánamo prisoner. Ben Northrop - Reflections of an "Old" Programmer. I'm a programmer, a few months shy of his 40th birthday.
It's Saturday morning, my kids are home with my wonderful wife (who is pulling my weight on the domestic front), and I'm at a tech conference. It's a session on React Native, and the presenter is convincing us why it's truly the "next big thing" for mobile development. To me, it seems a bit like JSPs of 15 years ago, with all the logic in the presentation code, but I'm "old", so I assume I just don't "get it".
The presenter blows through some slides, dazzles us with some impressive live coding, and then makes his way to the "name dropping" portion of the presentation, where he rattles off about a half a dozen supporting tools that I never knew existed, including something called Pepperoni (seriously). As someone who just recently got the hang of Angular, it all makes me feel a little disheartened. Of course I'm not really surprised. Two Main Forces The first is knowledge decay. The Three Stages Humble Advice. Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction. Russ Roberts: And that's where you and I have tremendous common ground.
Right? So, in many ways--we'll turn to some other examples in a minute--but in many ways a lot of the examples that you give, are just, to me, really bad social science run amok. Which becomes more possible when there's more data. Which is what the world we're increasingly living in-- Cathy O'Neil: Yeah. Russ Roberts: I know. Formula for success in learning. If you have found this place in the vast cyberspace of the web, you are probably not the one to convince that knowledge is power, and that solutions to most problems facing humanity could be found if we were armed with more understanding of how the world works.
While knowledge is power, information can be overpowering. An increasing proportion of the population suffers from Information Fatigue Syndrome, i.e. from stress related to being overwhelmed with an unmanageable glut of information. This text introduces you to simple steps toward managing information and toward rock-solid knowledge. No cheap miracles. Just a clear and straight approach based on facts and science. I have been working on the problem of effective learning for 16 years now since, as a student of molecular biology, I first understood how I could greatly change the quality of all my actions were I able to improve the recall of what I studied for exams (and not only). You may find the first three points obvious.
Clinical Neuroscience - Kelly G. Lambert; Craig H. Kinsley. Clinical Neuroscience informs students of relevant neurobiological foundations of various mental illnesses.
In this book, students will begin their journey with a tour of the brain's fundamental building blocks (neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neurodevelopment) before moving to mental health challenges and illnesses (Traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's Disease, Addiction, Schizophrenia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Depression). The final section of the book includes chapters addressing topics thought to be important for building resilience against the emergence of mental illness; these chapters cover the topics of adaptive coping strategies, hunger regulation, and the nexus between mental and immune functions. Throughout the text, the value of empirical evidence is emphasized so that meaningful progress can be made toward the identification of the most effective treatment strategies.
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