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information about the future of the education system: part II

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December 15, 2011
education in the future part 2

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information about the future of the education system: part I

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December 14, 2011
education in the future part 1

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are we getting smarter or dumber?

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July 26, 2011

Does the internet, and Google help or hurt us? IS it good to offload more mental tasks to computers? BPS Research Digest: Has the Internet become an external hard drive for the brain? Last year’s annual question posed by Edge was ” How is the Internet changing the way you think? ” Several psychologists answered [...]


Cognitive Dissonance

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July 11, 2011

Is this much about (nearly) nothing? Is there more here than merely a pseudo-intellectual snark put forth towards complexity or ambiguity? Does the topic of cognitive dissonance cause cognitive dissonance? Cognitive Dissonance and Non-adaptive Architecture: Seven Tactics for Denying the Truth Permaculture Research Institute by Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio [...]


Some information on Quantum Computing

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July 6, 2011

This is yet another topic where you will need to know more…soon… Moving Toward Quantum Computing – Science in 2011 In 1981 the physicist Richard Feynman speculated about the possibility of "tiny computers obeying quantum mechanical laws." He suggested that such a quantum computer might be the best way to simulate real-world quantum systems, a [...]


The size of the internet

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June 30, 2011

Just how fast is the internet growing, how big is it, and what does this really mean? Assessing the size of the Internet is a somewhat difficult proposition, since it is a distributed body, and no complete index of it exists. What we mean by asking how large the Internet is also plays into how [...]


Colleges still have a few problems…

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June 28, 2011

I presented a few positive arguments regarding the continuing validity of the traditional liberal arts baccalaureate degree. Here is another side to the issue. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the criticisms of the traditional liberal arts degree (or aspects of the ‘education bubble’). But every article I have cited here has [...]


Boredom is important…

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June 27, 2011

Most of us have been led to believe that boredom is a state of mind to be avoided at all cost……maybe not… Why Boredom Is Good For You Boredom is more than a mere flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief. Some experts say that people tune things out for good reasons, and that [...]


How technology is changing us…

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January 2, 2011

There are plenty of technologies which we use every day. Many of these are so deeply integrated into our culture that we take them for granted (e.g. fire, the wheel, writing, the printing press, the telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, internal combustion engines, electrical power, etc., etc.). The rate of change in our society is arguably [...]


My history with computers

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January 2, 2011

I have been using computers in general (on and off, but mostly on) for nearly 35 years, and I have been using PC’s for nearly 20. What I find interesting about this personal history (other than the fact that I have spend far too much time on computers…) is that what I do on computers, [...]


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