Friday, October 8, 2010

UK survey finds children know more about celebrities than history

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How was the first man on the moon: Buzz or Neil? A survey among 2000 UK 6-12 years olds found that children are knowledgeable about curre...

How a single person "wrote" 85,000 books

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Philip M. Parker is professor of Management Science an international business school based in France. In the last five years alone, he publi...

Elixir of life found (kind of): Add ten years to your life by drinking a protein cocktail, but only if you are a lab mouse

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Researchers in Italy found that feeding  a cocktail of three branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) - isoleucine, leucine and valine - to mice in...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Infograph (by Rob Beeson) distinguishing seven types of gamers

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Infographic, entitled  The Gamer Brain: The science and the stories behind a Gamer's brain , distinguishes seven different types of game...

Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself (NY Times article)

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Researchers at Carengie Mellon University are working on a computer that can understand natural spoken language, but it has to learn it firs...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers (NYTimes article)

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The NY Times posted an entertaining discussion on the origins (and confusions around) of the term STEM (=science technology engineering and...

New docu-entertainment about U.S. high schools - with Tony Danza

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A camera team follows Tony Danza, known from Taxi and  Who is the Boss ?, during his first year as a high school English teacher in Philad...