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#environment
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Senza tempo per una vita responsabile
Senza tempo non potete dedicarvi agli altri, alla solidarietà, ai consumi responsabili, alla diminuzione dell’impatto ambientale, all’autoproduzione di energia, detersivi, cibi. Dunque non potete fare cose che hanno un grande ruolo in una vita responsabile.
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Nature and nurture each control half of intelligence
For all of us, nature controls about 50 percent of our intellectual horsepower, and environment determines the rest. This means two things for parents: First, no matter how hard your child tries, there will be limits to what his brain can do. Second, that’s only half of the…
IQ is a dress size, not a birth date
Like Kirstie’s dress size, IQ is malleable. IQ has been shown to vary over one’s life span, and it is surprisingly vulnerable to environmental influences. It can change if one is stressed, old, or living in a different culture from the testing majority. A child’s IQ is…
Temperament is not just in the genes
So you can see temperament at birth, and it remains stable over time. Does that mean temperament is completely controlled by genes? Hardly. As we saw with the ice-storm children in the Pregnancy chapter, it is possible to create a stressed baby simply by increasing the mother’s…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Bateson: what thinks is a total circuit
“We used to argue whether a machine could think. The answer is, ‘No’. What thinks is a total circuit, including perhaps a computer, a man, and an environment. Similarly, we may ask whether a brain can think, and again the answer will be, ‘No’. What thinks is a brain inside a…
The world is its own best model
Situatedness refers to an agent being located in a complex environment, rather than a highly abstracted micro-world. The complexities of real environments are taken to be fundamentally different from those of the abstracted “micro-worlds”. Indeed, being situated permits the…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Environmental determinism
Environmental determinism basically says your boss is doing it to you—or your spouse, or that bratty teenager, or your economic situation, or national policies. Someone or something in your environment is responsible for your situation. Each of these maps is based on the…
Proactive people carry their own weather
Because we are, by nature, proactive, if our lives are a function of conditioning and conditions, it is because we have, by conscious decision or by default, chosen to empower those things to control us. In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often…
Leadership in a changing environment
Such changes as deregulation of the airline industry, skyrocketing costs of health care, and the greater quality and quantity of imported cars impact the environment in significant ways. If industries do not monitor the environment, including their own work teams, and exercise…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The nature of anything is its potential
‘The point is,’ she writes, ‘that no single environment can show the nature of anything, because to know the nature of anything (a woman, a lump of iron, x-rays, mosquitos or black holes) is to know its potential; that if it is in one environment it will appear or behave in one…
Brain plasticity and screen culture
‘Although most neuroscientists are familiar with the concept of what we call plasticity,’ she told me, ‘it might be that most people haven’t really grasped just how malleable their own brains are, how sensitive their brains are to the environment.’ Given that, she is fascinated…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Dewey and going green
John Dewey supported parents at a time when the United States was transitioning from an agricultural to an industrial age. Had someone mentioned “going green” to Dewey, he would have thought we were referencing learning activities for children about color. But as we ponder his…
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
How programs act on the external environment
In conclusion, while in the previous section we focused on the immediate function of programs as technical artefacts –producing some effects inside a computer– here the Jackson and Zave’s model allows us to understand how programs play their ultimate function, which is…
Machine, environment and their interface
In our understanding, the two ovals represent the possible phenomena involving the environment (to the left) and a programmable plat- form connected to the environment, called the machine (to the right). The intersection represents phenomena at the interface between the machine…