Jamais Cascio Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and futurist specializing in design strategies and possible outcomes for future scenarios.[citation needed] Biography[edit] Jamais Cascio resides in the San Francisco Bay Area[1] Cascio received his undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz and later attended UC Berkeley. Online projects[edit] Worldchanging[edit] From 2003 to 2006 Cascio helped in the formation of Worldchanging. On November 29, 2010, Worldchanging announced that due to fundraising difficulties it would shut down.[5] It has since merged with Architecture for Humanity, though detailed plans for the site's future have not been released. Open the Future[edit] In early 2006, Cascio established Open The Future as his online home, a title based on his WorldChanging essay, The Open Future. Public speaking and research affiliations[edit] Cascio currently serves as Director of Impacts Analysis for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.[6] Books[edit] Press[edit] Awards[edit]
A center for research into Self-Organized Learning Students at a School in the Cloud lab in India investigate a big question on their own in a SOLE. At the newly-opened SOLE Central at Newcastle University, research will be conducted on this type of learning. Photo: School in the Cloud Picture a classroom teacher without a lesson plan — a teacher who instead asks students an open-ended question to explore: Can animals think? With the opening of Newcastle University’s SOLE Central on Monday, this vision is coming to life, in a research center where the concept can be tweaked and improved as it rolls out to the wider world. SOLE Central is the first global hub for research into self-organized learning environments (SOLEs) – the style of learning championed by TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra. Mitra will serve as the Director of SOLE Central. Sugata Mitra looks dreamily in the distance at the opening of SOLE Central. James Stanfield, the director of the School in the Cloud project, played a major role in setting up SOLE Central.
Danila Medvedev Danila Andreevich Medvedev (Russian: Данила Медведев) (born March 21, 1980 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg)) is a Russian futurologist and politician. Specialising in the science and future of Russia, Medvedev serves as a member of the coordination council of the who serves as a membe Russian Transhumanistic Movement. In May 2005 he helped found KrioRus, the first cryonics company outside of the United States.[1] Since August 2008, he has worked as Chief Planning Officer and Vice-President of the Science for Life Extension Foundation, based in Moscow. Education and career[edit] Medvedev graduated from the International Management Institute of St. Works[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] How to Deal With Anxiety, Tragedy or Heartache — 4 Steps From Research “You don’t remember me, but I was in your experiment a year ago. I just wanted to thank you. It changed my life.” James Pennebaker has had a number of people say this to him over the years. In the early 80’s he came across a study showing that people who experienced personal traumas but didn’t discuss them were more likely to get sick. He wondered if just writing about their emotional upheavals could help people recover. In the 30 years since, hundreds of studies have documented the effectiveness of expressive writing. It helped with anxiety, tragedy, heartache… It even gave relief to those coping with cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, and AIDS. People who write about their problems gain a host of benefits including feeling happier, sleeping better, and even getting better grades. Via Expressive Writing: Words That Heal: Across multiple studies, people who engage in expressive writing report feeling happier and less negative than they felt before writing. Let’s get started. It’s risky.
Autrans 2004 (2e partie) : Thierry Gaudin, les enjeux de la société cognitive Par Daniel Kaplan le 25/03/04 | 2 commentaires | 1,894 lectures | Impression Thierry Gaudin ( prospectiviste, président de Prospective 2100 ( a impressionné l’auditoire des dernières rencontres d’Autrans lors de sa conférence inaugurale. En mettant en perspective les questions de bien communs publics, de coopération et d’appropriation sociale, il a proposé quelques thèmes de réflexion qui devraient nous accompagner longtemps : celui de la société de la reconnaissance (plutôt que de la connaissance), celui de la place des “communs” et de la propriété intellectuelle et celui des “crises” passées et à venir de la société de la connaissance.Ce compte rendu fait suite à celui que nous avons consacré à Christian Huitema, également intervenant aux rencontres 2004 d’Autrans. Voir aussi sur le site d’Autrans Cet article a également été traduit en Espagnol pour le site Tendencias 21. Sommaire Inquiétudes sur l’évolution de l’espèce humaine Sur ces mêmes sujets
How to Have a Great Relationship — 5 New Secrets From Research What is love? (Sit down. This might take a minute.) I’ve posted a lot about the science around love, including how to tell if your spouse is cheating and why high heels are sexy. But what about the stuff we need to know to be happy? Is there an expert who can give us some real answers about love: how to find it, nurture it and maybe even repair it? You better believe there is. He is a professor at Stony Brook University and author of a number of key books on the subject of relationships including: I gave Arthur a call and learned what makes us attractive, how to have a great first date, and the things that kill and improve relationships. Let’s get started. So What The Heck Is Love Anyway? Love isn’t an emotion, really. And that explains why it feels so good. All three activate the same area of the brain — the dopamine reward system. Here’s Arthur: So, yeah, even neuroscience agrees that love is intense. Not necessarily. Want your marriage to last more than 30 years? Looking good matters. Nope.
Thierry Gaudin Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Gaudin. Thierry Gaudin Il est principalement connu en France pour deux livres : L'Écoute des silences, les institutions contre l'innovation (1978, [3]) et 2100, Récit du prochain siècle (1990). Une version résumée 2100, Odyssée de l'espèce (1993, [4]), propose aux hommes de bonne volonté de travailler sur douze programmes planétaires pour le XXIe siècle. Il s'attache à montrer que la mutation contemporaine n'est pas assimilable à un nouvel avatar de la révolution industrielle mais doit être comprise comme un véritable changement de civilisation. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Né le 15 mai 1940, Thierry Gaudin est Ingénieur Général des Mines, président de « Prospective 2100 » [1], docteur en Sciences de l'Information et de la communication. 2004-2007 Président de l'association Reso, chargé de l'organisation des rencontres d'Autrans [2] Bibliographie[modifier | modifier le code] Portail de la France
The psychology of accents Why does our brain recognise foreign accents, and why do we develop them in the first place? The latest episode of BrainCraft explores the science. [optional caption text here] Image: [name here]/Shutterstock G'day mate! So what causes our brains to detect certain pronunciations and sounds as “foreign”? As Vanessa explains, it’s well known in psychology that different sounds can convey meaning, even if they don’t actually have meaning - for example, research shows that made-up words like ‘bouba’ make people think of soft and round shapes, where as a word like ‘kiki’ conjures up images of something sharp and pointy. This also means that we can determine meaning from the way people sound, and studies have revealed that humans have an own-accent bias - so basically our brains automatically prefer our own accent over those of others. Accents also make us think certain things about the speaker, even if they’re not true.
MediaFuturist Decoding skills for listening: a collection of useful links About two and a half years ago I wrote a blog post entitled, Decoding skills: a neglected part of listening comprehension? In the time since then it seems that many of us have stopped neglecting those poor decoding skills, and that an interest in how decoding can help develop both listening and reading skills is on the rise. A recent question posed by Mike Harrison on the IATEFL Facebook page about developing (rather than testing) listening skills led to a flurry of useful links in the comments, which I list below: A presentation by John Field on Rethinking the Comprehension Approach to Listening A summary of Sandy Millin’s 2014 presentation at IATEFL on teaching rather than testing listening Olga Sergeeva’s blog on using authentic video clips to focus on bottom up skills. A series of Listening Skills books written by Sheila Thorn (which I have mentioned before but which have now been re-published by Collins) Richard Cauldwell’s innovative app Cool Speech Like this: Like Loading...