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To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand - Robinson Meyer

To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand - Robinson Meyer
Students do worse on quizzes when they use keyboards in class. Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home. This meant more than lost Facebook time. A psychology grad student at Princeton, Mueller was one of the class teaching assistants. It was important she have good notes on the lecture. So she put pen to paper—and found something surprising. Class just seemed better. “‘I had a similar experience in a faculty meeting the other day,’” Mueller remembers him saying. It turns out there is. A new study—conducted by Mueller and Oppenheimer—finds that people remember lectures better when they’ve taken handwritten notes, rather than typed ones. What's more, knowing how and why typed notes can be bad doesn't seem to improve their quality. The study comes at a ripe time for questions about laptop use in class. The study was conducted in three parts. Students watched the video, completed difficult mental tasks for 30 minutes, then took a quiz on the content.

Los diez subgéneros más disparatados del porno en Internet Tags: aliensCochescochinadasETfollarPornotentáculos Ya lo decía el legendario vídeo: “Internet is for porn”, pero no hablamos solo de señoritas ligeras de ropa y parejas haciendo la caídita del Roma. Desde sus mismos inicios, con los atribulados grupos de noticias (alt.sex.movies.monster y afines) se convirtieron en el punto de reunión de aquellos con gustos sexuales, digamos, alternativos. La hiperespacialización del porno provoca, por ejemplo, que un cisma entre los fetichistas de los pies dé lugar a páginas de mujeres pisoteando insectos. Después de leer este artículo probablemente te consueles si sorprendes a tu hijo tocándose mientras otea la cándida Playboy.com o ve su canal favorito de YouPorn. 10 Mujeres que empujan coches atascados en el barro En qué consiste: Exactamente eso: Fotos de chicas de buen ver que se ven atascadas en el barro o la nieve, y deben arremangarse sus cortísimas minifaldas para salir del aprieto. Dónde lo puedes encontrar: Pedal Lady y Car Stock Girls.

My 28-week pregnancy and the 20-week abortion ban: why choice still matters | Jessica Valenti Twenty-eight weeks into my pregnancy, I developed a life-threatening illness, the only cure for which was to not be pregnant. Luckily, I was far enough along that I didn't need to have an abortion to save my life, but my daughter's birth was still mired in terror. At 28 weeks, Layla was born via emergency c-section. I wasn't sure if I would make it – before my doctors made the first cut, I told my husband that if I died he should tell my sister that Layla's middle name, Sorella, was for her. Twenty-four hours later, when I finally saw my daughter, she was just two pounds – all skin and bones and transparent skin. Now, at four years old, Layla is healthy, happy and has grown out of any lasting preemie problems. But I am also more pro-choice than before. Last week, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks. The anti-choice activists behind these policies find pro-choice mothers like me baffling.

What Can We Learn From Other Women’s Career Mistakes? “Would that book ever exist for men?” a colleague asked upon hearing about Mistakes I Made At Work, a new anthology of reflections from various women about things they’ve gotten wrong in their early careers. It’s a question anticipated by a cheesy strike-through in the subhead: “25 Influential Men Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong.” Yet in spite of the gimmicky setup, this meditation on mistakes avoids cloying self-deprecation, instead highlighting what may be one of women's overlooked strengths: admitting when they’ve done something wrong. Jessica Bacal, the director of the Wurtele Center for Work and Life at Smith College and editor of the book, began interviewing women after noticing a general hesitance among both men and women to discuss career mistakes openly. No one interviewed attempts to minimize their mistakes. Each story indulges the voyeuristic desire to chart the paths that other women's lives have taken.

UK has 'worst quality of life in Europe' | Money The UK has been named the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life, behind countries with damaged economies such as Ireland and Italy, according to the latest uSwitch quality of life index. The UK emerged as having the second lowest hours of sunshine a year, the fourth highest retirement age, and the third lowest spend on health as a percentage of GDP. Despite above average household income – the fourth highest in Europe – Britons have 5.5 fewer days holiday a year than the European average and endure a below average government spend on education. UK households also struggle with a high cost of living, with food and diesel prices the highest in Europe, and unleaded petrol, alcohol and cigarettes all costing more than the European average. As a result, more than one in 10 Britons (12%) said they are "seriously considering" emigrating, with "broken society" the biggest concern for 59% of those questioned, followed by the cost of living (49%), and crime and violence (47%).

Hipsterism is over and passé... meet London's new urban adult tribes - London Life - Life & Style Still, offbeat kids and urban adults are eager to be integrated into groups. Anything that ends with *ipster or even *pster will do, as long as it doesn’t have the letter H. Hipsterdom is ready for new isms, ones that combine quiche and indie pop, fixed-gear bikes as well as shoegazing, Nathan Barleys and Shoreditch Twats. What do we talk about when talk about irony? Jewish hipster. You say potato, the Jewpster says fifty shades of kosher. As a known Jewpster, me (29) and my family eat Pakistani food with a bitter note of self-acrimony in Whitechapel and visit the Waspchapel Gallery with fellow Waspters. Jewpsters love hi-vis jackets with rundown Star of David signs printed on them. Nouveau hipster. Some Nipsters think they kidnapped dubstep as a form of breakdance. Joel the Nipster Joel Benjamin, 25, is a hairstylist and DJ who is a Nipster, with a head for business and a body for sin. Muslim hipsters. Ukip hipsters. Pictures by Zoë Jenkin.

Mean Girls 10th Anniversary - Lindsay Lohan Movies It's time to give Mean Girls the praise it deserves. Today is the movie's 10th anniversary, which shows that it carries a legacy that few films from its time do. It may not have won any Golden Globes or Oscars (it was, however, nominated for a Kids' Choice Award), but it is a darn-good movie with attitude, edge, and sharp dialogue. Mean Girls is also one of the most quoted and most rewatched comedies. Begin Slideshow Study: Firstborn Children Dream Bigger, Achieve More - Julie Beck Oldest siblings aspire to higher levels of formal education—and they're more likely to stick with it. The stereotype of the oldest sibling is that of a Type-A overachiever, high-strung and highly successful. The effect of birth order on personality and achievement is something that seems like common knowledge, and there is research to suggest that firstborns have the advantage. Her study takes data on 3,552 people organized into 1,503 clusters of siblings from the British Household Panel Survey (and its successor, the UK Household Longitudinal Study) and looks at how birth order relates to educational aspiration and achievement, both across and within families. To measure educational aspiration, Bu looked at children’s responses to this question at age 13: “Do you want to leave school when you are 16, or do you plan to go on to sixth form or college?” There are gender differences at play, as well.

The novel is dead (this time it's for real) If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries. As you tunnel on relentlessly into the future, these little harbingers either choke on the noxious gases released by the extraction of decadence, or they thrive in the clean air of what we might call progress. A few months ago, one of my canaries, who's in his mid-teens and harbours a laudable ambition to be the world's greatest ever rock musician, was messing about on his electric guitar. Breaking off from a particularly jagged and angry riff, he launched into an equally jagged diatribe, the gist of which was already familiar to me: everything in popular music had been done before, and usually those who'd done it first had done it best. A miner, if he has any sense, treats his canary well, so I began gently remonstrating with him. So recorded sound blew away the nimbus of authenticity surrounding live performers – but it did worse things.

How #AmtrakResidency Became a Talent Search -- NYMag “Hey, what happened to the #AmtrakResidency or was that just a scam to stop writers from tweeting about lousy service?” the critic Ron Rosenbaum tweeted last week. It’s a logical question about a program (still very much happening) that will always feel implausible and a bit surreal. The Amtrak Writers’ Residency was a comic marketing proposition from the start — one ancillary, antiquated business (rail service) teaming up with another (books) full of people so needful of acknowledgment and peace of mind that they’d consider a week in a four-by-seven sleeper room a “residency.” It was conceived not in some over-lit conference room but on Twitter, that modern Petri dish of Crazy PR Ideas That Just Might Work. What happened, per Julia Quinn, was 15,000 applications in three weeks from “just about anyone who’d call themselves a writer.” The (initial) enthusiasm shouldn’t have been shocking. Quinn hopes to announce further details in mid-May, but offers New York a preview.

Sony World Photography Awards At Somerset House Sean Batten, UK. Image courtesy World Photography Organisation The Sony World Photography Awards are prestigious awards that recognise truly great amateur and professional photographers, covering diverse categories ranging from current affairs to the conceptual. Last year was a particularly strong field and this year doesn’t disappoint with an equally excellent range, displayed across two wings of Somerset House. Other highlights include the bizarre juxtaposition of adjacent houses in Belgium built in contrasting styles and the close ups of waves breaking, which gives the water a false sensation of solidity. The overall and deserving winner of the top prize, the Iris D’Or, is Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for her series on domestic violence in the US. This is yet another excellent year for the Sony World Photography award and the price of a ticket grants visitors access to a treasure trove of diverse and engaging photographs.

Documented: new film illustrates US immigration's kinks and contradictions | Film Few people have done as much to illuminate the kinks and contradictions of America’s broken immigration policy as Jose Antonio Vargas. Perhaps no one has done as much to put a human face on the crisis. In June 2011, Vargas, then a 30-year-old Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, disclosed in a story published in the New York Times Magazine that, for two decades, he had been living and working in the United States as an undocumented migrant. He arrived from the Philippines at age 12. He was raised in Mountain View, California, by his grandparents, who hid his undocumented status from him. The decision to publish entailed great personal and professional risk for Vargas. In one of many good scenes in Documented, a new film that tells his story, Vargas tries to figure out how the government decides who to deport. Hopes for serious immigration reform in the near future seem to have dimmed since Vargas’s story first emerged. “I’m not a leader.

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