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Official: Cleaning Chicago River a waste of money – chicagotribune.com
“The waterways are really a dangerous place for recreation, especially swimming,” said Thomas Granato, the district’s interim director of monitoring and research, citing steep walls and barge traffic on some stretches. “It’s not like a beach where you can stand up and walk out of the water if you’re tired or get a cramp.”
The Twitter Trap – NYTimes.com
–Who says you need Twitter for reductive arguments?
Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this frees a lot of gray matter for important pursuits like FarmVille and “Real Housewives.” But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity.
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Joseph Rakofsky — I Have An Answer For You – New York Personal Injury Law Blog
A mistrial followed, the story was published, and the legal blogosphere lit up with commentary, much of which dealt with his website and marketing where he pretended to have vast experience, when in reality he had little. Much of that experience that he boasted about, it seems, came from being an intern, not a lawyer. Bloggers wrote about his incompetence and ethics problem, much of it in gory detail with full orchestration and 5-part harmony.
What Can Medical Education Learn From the Neurobiology of Le… : Academic Medicine
The insights gleaned from neurobiological and cognitive neuroscientific experimentation in humans and in animal models have identified many of the processes at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels that occur during learning and the formation, storage, and recall of memories. Moreover, with the advent of noninvasive technologies to monitor patterns of neural activity during various forms of human cognition, the efficacy of different strategies for effective teaching can be compared. Considerable insight has also been developed as to how to most effectively engage these processes to facilitate learning, retention, recall, and effective use and application of the learned information. However, this knowledge has not systematically found its way into the medical education process. Thus, there are considerable opportunities for the integration of current knowledge about the biology of learning with educational strategies and curricular design
Google Docs Adds Support for Pivot Tables
Today Google announced support for pivot tables to the Google Docs spreadsheet application. According to Wikipedia, pivot tables “can automatically sort, count, total or give the average of the data stored in one table or spreadsheet. It displays the results in a second table (called a “pivot table”) showing the summarized data.” It’s a common approach to data visualization and business intelligence.
A Case For Open Source Textbooks [INFOGRAPHIC]
Are they Students or are they Learners? : 2¢ Worth
–Warlick being pretty fairly concrete about some learner/student differences. Do these matter? If so, what do we do about it?
“So let me see if I can distinguish between these notions of students and learners.”