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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Human learning is fundamentally relational
What is strong enough, Kuhl and other researchers wondered, to keep that door from closing? Say you expose your baby, in the critical period, to a tape of someone speaking a foreign language. Does the brain stay open for phonemic business? The answer is no. How about a DVD of…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Some knowledge is better represented digitally
For my experience in humanities computing has convinced me that some kinds of knowledge can be better represented in digital formats than they have been in print. The knowledge of a foreign language, for instance, can be better conveyed with examples from multiple speakers in…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
We notice only what we can name
It seems that we notice through a double process in which the first factor is a choice of what is interesting or important. The second factor, working simultaneously with the first, is that we need a notation for almost anything that can be noticed. Notation is a system of…