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Idea Pod
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An Idea Junky's Place To Vent
- Added on: Nov 18th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: joana johnson
- Listed in: Philosophy History
- Tags: education architecture trends schools mindset butterfly effect
Recent Posts
Plan Before the Plan
When you want a killer backhand in tennis, you watch a good instructional video, hire a coach or take tips from your tennis-playing best friend. When you want to join the community symphony with your cello, you dust off the old sheet music you ...
Open Education: The Newest Tool for Dialectics?
The birth of what was to become the Western world's first university, occurred under the breezy shade of an olive grove dedicated to the goddess Athena. Thirty-year old Plato, the first professor, lectured sparsely, but posed humanity's greatest que...
The One Human Freedom
I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.-E.B. White, American authorThe world is divided into people who believe they can change the world and peo...
What Are Your Invariant Representations?
Genes dictate the overall architecture of the [brain's] cortex, including the specifics of what regions are connected together, but within that structure the system is highly flexible. -Jeff Hawkins (2004), Neuroscience ResearcherScientists often ref...
How Much Space Do You Need?
It is a disaster to have a man fall in love with me. They aren't content to take what I can give, they want everything from me.- Katherine Anne Porter (1960), American JournalistFeeling lonely even when involved in a close, romantic relationship, is ...
Music On My Mind
Are you good at tuning into the smallest nuances of human speech and its emotional variations? It could be because you started piano lessons at age seven. Neuroscientist Nina Kraus believes musical experience not only sharpens your hearing for music ...
