Here is what I am reading today: education on the web “As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, will announce on Tuesday that a dozen major research universities are joining the venture. Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: what makes Parrot’s parrot? “Scientists say they have assembled more completely the string of genetic letters that could control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other sounds.” the danger of cats to some women “Women infected with the Toxoplasma gondii Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: why day dreaming is important “As each day passes, the pace of life seems to accelerate — demands on productivity continue ever upward and there is hardly ever a moment when we aren’t, in some way, in touch with our family, friends, or Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: the silent gorilla “Concentrating closely on a conversation can leave us ‘deaf’ to other sounds, reveals Dr Polly Dalton from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.” smarter than the average… bear? “Yogi Bear always claimed that he was smarter Read more…
Here is what we are reading today: mind reading via neuroscience “Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23. The patient was only 24 years old when his life was devastated by a car accident. Alive but unresponsive, he had been languishing in what neurologists refer to Read more…