"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." — T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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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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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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Communities of Practice
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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 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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Situated Learning
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Situated Learning →

If, as acknowledged in the practice of situated learning, the social and cultural context in which learners finds themselves are integral to the learning process, then three ideas emerge about the learning process.
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Power Texting Tips →

Tips for text mes­sag­ing, a way to com­mu­ni­cate that is archiv­able, search­able, can never be mis­heard or cut off by bad recep­tion, and gets to the point sans small talk and inter­rupt­ing the cur­rent flow.

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Links: Continuing Health Sciences Education
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Links: Continuing Health Sciences Education →

These are the links that support my professional pursuits: teaching methods, knowledge translation, assessment techniques and other issues in continuing health sciences education.
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