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Made with Paper
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It’s a historical hiccup in the history of learning,” said Rich Halverson, a learning scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the lead researcher on KidGrid, a mobile app that helps teachers study and analyze student data. “Here we had the most sophisticated advances in the history of learning banned from schools out of fear.…
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Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization
Catholic Fund cuts off aid over Hispanic group’s affiliation with LGBT organization nbclatino: Compañeros, a small nonprofit organization in rural southwestern Colorado, has received thousands of dollars from the Roman Catholic Church to help poor Hispanic immigrants with basic needs including access to health care and guidance on local laws. Until, they partnered up with a statewide…
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emergentfutures: Human Attention to a Particular Portion of an Image Alters the Way the Brain Processes Visual Cortex Responses to That Image Our ability to ignore some, but not other stimuli, allows us to focus our attention and improve our performance on a specific task. The ability to respond to visual stimuli during a visual…
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slavin: I’m pretty sure this was not intended to be satirical. (Taken with instagram)
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Scientists discover booze helps with problem-solving
Scientists discover booze helps with problem-solving moocha: Getting a buzz from booze may boost creativity. Men who drank themselves tipsy solved more problems demanding verbal resourcefulness in less time than sober guys did, a new study finds. This changes everything. New company policy.
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It was Tobey’s, now it’s mine…and hopefully next it will be a half-Hispanic, half-African American actor, Andrew Garfield (via orangemornings)
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The science of taste and of cultural consumption begins with a transgression that is in no way aesthetic: it has to abolish the sacred frontier which makes legitimate culture a separate universe, in order to discover the intelligible relations which unite apparently incommensurable ‘choices’, such as preferences in music and food, painting and sport, literature…
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An acquaintance of mine, an artist and critic and now an administrator, told me of an assignment he gave to his first-year MFA students. He asked them to go to the library and seek out an art magazine from the month and year they were born, write down the names of 25 artists from the…
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Agility may be the single highest priority for workplaces now and in the future. Brian Green, Herman-Miller, from Coworking, Swarming, and The Agile Workplace (via stoweboyd) agility for the spaces to reconfigure, agility for the workgroups to recombine, agility for the minds to address novel challenges which require novel approaches