The message is: eat food, mostly plants, not too much. Simple. So why is it so difficult to learn?
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Getting there is half the fun.
portable learner
The continuing education of an educator in the net age
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Unhappy Meals
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Intelligence in the Classroom
Half of all kids are below average intelligence and too many Americans go to college. Strong views, all based on the critically-flawed IQ test. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
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The Mystery of Consciousness
100 million neurons create the knowledge (or illusion) that you exist. Yes, the biology of consciousness offers a sounder basis for morality than unprovable dogmas about God or an immortal soul.
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A Librarian’s Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell
Librarianship is more about information management, database networking and making the sale, and less about the books to read.
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The Neurology of Self Awareness
The uniquely human ability to see the world from others’ point of view evolved in response to social needs. An unexpected bonus was the ability to introspect our own thoughts and intentions.
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Half Notes
Communities of Practice
The idea that learning requires a deepening process of participation in a community of practice has gained increased recognition in the recent years. Communities of practice have also become an important area within organizational development.
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Why a Quick Look Can Be Better than a Deep Study
British researchers determine that for some tasks–like picking out a unique object in a field of many others–often the first place we look is where it is. In fact, higher visual processing can confound perception.
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Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Till Tomorrow
Why do we struggle with long-term problems like climate change and mounting public debt that need immediate solutions. A 10-year study says in part its our procrastinating ways…
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Art and Science
In art, it is easier to imagine history without Hamlet than without Shakespeare. But in science, it is easier to make do without the discoverers, but not their discoveries.
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“In medias res” is a technique used in TV and film in which the viewer is catapulted into the middle of the action, usually a dramatic pviotal moment on which the rest of the plot is structured. What is activated is emotional involvement…