TEDxLondon presents the Education Revolution David Rowan Editor of Wired magazine You've seen the extraordinary TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson, on how to repair our education system to boost creativity (what? You haven't? With new tools around that harness the power of technology to truly democratise learning, and the sum total of human knowledge only a web browser away, the role of teachers is changing dramatically. The event is organised in collaboration with Sir Ken Robinson, and aims to explore ways to re-invent an outmoded model of learning. It's an impressive list of speakers that's been announced so far, including: Jude Kelly - artistic director of the Southbank Centre in London; Scott Snibe - One of the app developers involved in creating Bjork's recent Biophila project, as covered in Wired; Sir Ken Robinson - via a video link; Ken Spours - Professor of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; Salman Khan - founder of the Khan Academy, via video link; Geoff Stead - Head of Innovation of Tribal Group.
Chinese men have already started to conquer Russia's female population China has been struggling against overpopulation for decades. It seems that this problem exists in the country for ages. It now appears that the Chinese authorities have finally managed to succeed in changing the traditional imbalance between male and female newborns. In 2010, 118.08 boys were born per 100 girls in China. Nevertheless, the Chinese realize that the so-called gender imbalance in births remains on a very high level. This problem poses a serious threat to the social stability of the Chinese society. In Russia, there are on average 1,159 women per 1,000 men. Generally speaking, female fiancées in Russia outnumber male fiancées by over ten million. For example, in the Yaroslavl region, there are 1,239 women per 1,000 men (1,233 and 1,226 women per 1,000 men in the Ivanovo and the Tula regions respectively). The predominance of the female population is the lowest in the Northern Caucasus (1,115 women per 1,000 men) and in the Far East (1,081). Andrei MikhailovPravda.Ru
Looking Forward By Looking Back: Axel Leijonhufvud Interviews Friedrich Hayek INET Advisory Board member Axel Leijonhufvud has consistently pointed to the need for new economic thinking to grapple with the novel challenges of our recent economic crises. In particular, Leijonhufvud has questioned the flawed fundamentals of economics. And he has explored the spread of contagion in undermining the web of contracts that are the basis for capitalism. Time and again, Leijonhufvud has demonstrated the intellectual firepower to grapple with the world’s most pressing economic issues alongside some of the brightest economic minds on the planet. This is nothing new, as this classic two-part interview with Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek demonstrates. Leifjonhufvud asks Hayek about his academic career and intellectual pursuits. Later, Hayek talks with Leijonhufvud about the role of government in private enterprise, the minimum wage, and the private provision of money. You don’t want to miss this amazing conversation between two of the world’s leading economic minds.
The Reinvention of the Self Just as Duman was beginning to see the biochemical connections between trophins, stress, and depression, Gould was starting to document neurogenesis in the hippocampus of the primate brain. Reading Altman’s and Kaplan’s papers, Gould had realized that her neuron-counting wasn’t erroneous: She was just witnessing an ignored fact. The anomaly had been suppressed. Despite the elegance of Nottebohm’s data, his science was marginalized. But Gould, motivated by the strangeness of her own observations, connected the dots. She would spend the next eight years quantifying endless numbers of radioactive rat hippocampi. After her wearisome post-doc, during which her data was continually criticized, Gould was offered a job at Princeton. Gould’s finding has led, via work Duman has done that builds on it, to a rash of R&D to stimulate neurogenesis in the brain. McEwen and Gould,” Duman says, “and they were showing this relationship between stress and the adrenal hormones and neurogenesis.
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Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. The piece of writing (via) which that quote introduces is intellectually substantial, but not all that difficult to read, so you might as well take a look at it yourself. He begins by positing that conspiracy and authoritarianism go hand in hand, arguing that since authoritarianism produces resistance to itself — to the extent that its authoritarianism becomes generally known — it can only continue to exist and function by preventing its intentions (the authorship of its authority?) First take some nails (“conspirators”) and hammer them into a board at random.
Teenage Brains Although you know your teenager takes some chances, it can be a shock to hear about them. One fine May morning not long ago my oldest son, 17 at the time, phoned to tell me that he had just spent a couple hours at the state police barracks. Apparently he had been driving "a little fast." "That's more than a little fast," I said. He agreed. He did, however, object to one thing. "Well," I huffed, sensing an opportunity to finally yell at him, "what would you call it?" "It's just not accurate," he said calmly. " 'Reckless' sounds like you're not paying attention. "I guess that's what I want you to know. Actually, it did make me feel better. My son's high-speed adventure raised the question long asked by people who have pondered the class of humans we call teenagers: What on Earth was he doing? Through the ages, most answers have cited dark forces that uniquely affect the teen. Ten-year-olds stink at it, failing about 45 percent of the time. This view will likely sit better with teens.
News: Technologically Illiterate Students ORLANDO -- Say you are an employer evaluating college students for a job. Perusing one candidate’s Facebook profile, you notice the student belongs to a group called “I Pee My Pants When I’m Drunk.” What is your first thought? It should not be that this student is unemployable for being an intemperate drinker, said Susan Zvacek, director of instructional development at the University of Kansas -- though that it might mean that, too. “What it tells me,” Zvacek said, “is that the student is technologically illiterate.” In a session Thursday at Blackboard World, the e-learning company’s annual user conference, Zvacek proposed that the definition of technological literacy needs updating. And under such a definition, most of today’s students -- both college and K-12 -- do not pass muster, she said. “The digital divide used to be about the hardware haves and have-nots,” she said. Zvacek was careful to make clear that by tech-skeptical, she did not mean tech-negative.
The Local-global Flip, Or, "the Lanier Effect" Here's a sampling: ... "The Apple idea is that instead of the personal computer model where people own their own information, and everybody can be a creator as well as a consumer, we're moving towards this iPad, iPhone model where it's not as adequate for media creation as the real media creation tools, and even though you can become a seller over the network, you have to pass through Apple's gate to accept what you do, and your chances of doing well are very small, and it's not a person to person thing, it's a business through a hub, through Apple to others, and it doesn't create a middle class, it creates a new kind of upper class. ... ... ... ... ... ... ...if you're adding to the network, do you expect anything back from it? Read on. JARON LANIER is a computer scientist, composer, and visual artist. Jaron Lanier's Edge Bio Page The Reality Club: Dougas Rushkoff [JARON LANIER:] One of the things I've been thinking about is how computation is a human-centric concept.
News Desk: Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone Is Not Enough” Editors’ Note: Details from this post appeared in similar form in a July, 2011, piece by Jonah Lehrer for Wired magazine, U.K. We regret the duplication of material. On January 30, 1986, shortly after he was forced out of Apple Computer (and years before his return), Steve Jobs bought a small computer manufacturer named Pixar from George Lucas, the director of Star Wars. Unfortunately, the expensive computers were a commercial flop. The survival of Pixar, and its subsequent rise, is a revealing case study in Jobs’s approach to innovation. When introducing the iPad 2 in March, Jobs summarized his strategy this way: “It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” This faith in the liberal arts is rooted in Job’s own biography. Perhaps the clearest demonstration can be seen in the design of the Pixar campus.