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Turning Education Upside Down with the Flipped Classroom(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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by robg 13y ago
With our technologies for stress monitoring, I've been amazed at how much naps seem to reduce stress. You go from being pretty high to pretty low within twenty minutes.
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by robg 13y ago
FUD (Considering the source)
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An App That Saved 10,000 Lives(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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Reality Distortion Field(folklore.org)
3 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face(blogs.plos.org)
2 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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by robg 13y ago
In my neuroimaging days we found a tight correlation between visual and taste regions, even when we were only asking about one quality and from only word stimuli.
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My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89(thetrichordist.com)
1 points by robg 13y ago|1 comments
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Could a "Respect" Button Help Squash Internet Trolls?(wired.com)
1 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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Netflix is doing to TV what steam-powered printing did to books(qz.com)
3 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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by robg 13y ago
RE: Terrafugia $30 million in pre-orders 2 production-ready prototypes built (i.e., actual, flyable planes that readily turn into road-worthy cars and back again) I wouldn't call that over the top. I'd call that awesome.
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by robg 13y ago
I've worked on content-based Bayesian voting schemes. They work well weighting votes by content words. tptacek + cryptography should matter more. Here, though, it seems as if HN experts and novices may be representative. pg used to run
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by robg 13y ago
One thing I've never understood about forums of this type: Why assume all votes should be equal? In any knowledge community, some voices mean more than others (e.g., experts and novices). Why shouldn't a similar distinction transl
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I Bought an Island, Larry Ellison edition(online.wsj.com)
1 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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The Rise Of The Tech Villain? Ctd(dish.andrewsullivan.com)
1 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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Modernity, Madness, and the History of Neuroscience(gardenofthemind.com)
2 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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What Are You The Best In the World At?(marcbarros.com)
1 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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by robg 13y ago
Absolutely, but just consider that modern neuroscience is still new, and scary, to the vast majority of teachers. When you consider their sole job as brain training, emotions very much included, the profession is made much simpler in many w
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by robg 13y ago
From the article here: It may also make children smarter. Davidson notes that because social-emotional training develops the prefrontal cortex, it can also enhance academically important skills like impulse control, abstract reasoning, lon
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by robg 13y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_self-regulation Prefrontal cortex is still developing through our early twenties. Mitigating the effects of emotional responses takes work, just like any other disciplin
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by robg 13y ago
I like this theory but hard to disambiguate from working up an appetite and the associations between the two forms of pleasure, perhaps the most overwhelming forms of pleasure in our biology.
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A Wall That Limited the World Trade Center’s Devastation(nytimes.com)
2 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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by robg 13y ago
Really awesome to see this. pg - Can you explain your reasoning on a charitable donation to the "startup"? It seems that if these .orgs are successful one great way to literally pay it forward is into a separate fund that could gr
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by robg 13y ago
At Neumitra: 1) We build more medical watches than gadgets. Right up against the skin means great data quality if you take biometric data seriously in terms of the problems that can be solved. But comfort and fit are extremely important t
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A Salute to the Wheel(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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Who Will Prosper in the New World(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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Gorgeous Anatomy App Gives Kids What They Want: Farts(wired.com)
2 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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by robg 13y ago
Neumitra - Boston, MA (Copley) - prefer on-site We develop wearable, connected technologies for daily brain health and performance. Our first product is a biofeedback watch to mitigate the effects of stress on daily life. We are working wit
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Military interventions increase civilian deaths(slate.com)
3 points by robg 13y ago|0 comments
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by robg 13y ago
Hard for me to follow his argument when he dismisses Xbox in a footnote for the exact reason he lauds others (relevance, not profits).

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