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Myth-conceptions: How myths about the brain are hampering teaching -- ScienceDaily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

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"Myths about the brain are common among teachers worldwide and are hampering teaching, according to new research. The report highlights several areas where new findings from neuroscience are becoming misinterpreted by education, including brain-related ideas regarding early educational investment, adolescent brain development and learning disorders such as dyslexia and ADHD." - maitani - -

"Teachers in the UK, Holland, Turkey, Greece and China were presented with seven so-called 'neuromyths' and asked whether they believe them to be true." - maitani - -

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Forscherteam identifiziert 3500 Jahre alte Königsstadt - scientists identify 3500-year-old city of the Hittites - http://www.uni-marburg.de/aktuell...

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"„Samuha war als bedeutende Metropole bereits seit Längerem aus Schriftquellen anderer Fundorte bekannt“, erläutert Professor Dr. Andreas Müller-Karpe, Direktor des Vorgeschichtlichen Seminars der Philipps-Universität, an dem das Forschungsprojekt angesiedelt ist. „Wo diese Stadt jedoch lag, blieb in der Forschung heftig umstritten.“ Die jüngsten Ausgrabungen brachten nun den Durchbruch: Der Ort befand sich am Nordufer des längsten Flusses Anatoliens, des Kızılırmak (hethitisch Marassantija) in der ostkappadokischen Provinz Sivas." - maitani - -

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Beautiful maps - http://kottke.org/14...

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Philosophy Monkey: Plato - Apology - http://berto-meister.blogspot.de/2014...

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"In ancient Greece, when visitors went to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the very first thing they encountered there was an inscription chiseled on the entrance: "know thyself." While many people today think of this as an invitation to meditative self-reflection, this was simply a warning for humans to know their place, to understand that they are mortal, and that any pretension to wisdom, power or hubris would be swiftly punished by the gods." - maitani - -

" Human beings have the unique ability of contemplating their beliefs, values and choices, and of questioning the established order and trying to come up with novel solutions and alternatives to the reality and the tragedy of existence. " Very well-said and this we call a life. The constant battle - maitani - -

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A history of the blackboard: How the blackboard became an effective and ubiquitous teaching tool. - http://www.slate.com/article...

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"The blackboard is a recent innovation. Erasable slates, a cheap but durable substitute for costly paper and ink, had been in use for centuries. Students could practice reading and writing and math on their slates, in the classroom or at home. But it wasn’t until 1800 that James Pillans, headmaster of the Old High School of Edinburgh, Scotland, wanting to offer geography lessons to his students that required larger maps, connected a number of smaller slates into a single grand field. And in 1801, George Baron, a West Point mathematics teacher, also began to use a board of connected slates, the most effective way, he found, to illustrate complex formulas to a larger audience." - maitani - -

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"Although the term blackboard did not appear until 1815, the use of these cobbled-together slates spread quickly; by 1809, every public school in Philadelphia was using them. Teachers now had a flexible and versatile visual aid, a device that was both textbook and blank page, as well as a laboratory, and most importantly, a point of focus. The blackboard illustrates and is illustrated. Students no longer simply listened to the teacher; they had reason to look up from their desks." - maitani - -

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The Outsider Art of Tennessee by Geoffrey O'Brien | The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/article...

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"Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh: John Lahr’s subtitle for his biography of Tennessee Williams nimbly fuses madness, spiritual quest, and sexuality in one inextricable formulation. The tone of the phrase alone—it comes from a 1937 diary entry—with its hint of what may now seem self-consciously overripe eloquence, its elusive mix of ironic gaudiness and open-hearted romanticism, already suggests a voice from a past more remote than could ever, to those of us who lived through Tennessee Williams’s era, have seemed possible." - maitani - -

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DABIR | Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review - http://www.dabirjournal.org/

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"The Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal published by the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. DABIR aims to quickly and efficiently publish brief notes and reviews relating to the pre-modern world in contact with Iran and Persianate cultures. The journal accepts submissions on art history, archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, manuscript studies, numismatics, philology and religion, from Jaxartes to the Mediterranean and from the Sumerian period through to and including the Safavid era (3500 BCE-1500 CE). Work dealing with later periods can be considered on request." - maitani - -

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Deep Habits: Conquer Hard Tasks With Concentration Circuits - Study Hacks - Cal Newport - http://calnewport.com/blog...

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"Today I needed to finish a tough chunk of writing. The ideas were complicated and I wasn’t quite sure how best to untangle the relevant threads and reweave them into something appealing. I knew I was in for some deep work and I was worried about my ability to see it through to the end." - maitani - -

"I call this approach the concentration circuit as it cycles you through a circuit of locations to keep your concentration levels elevated. To be clear, most of my deep work sessions are decidedly less interesting. They take place in my office with the door closed. But sometimes I need something extra. If I’m feeling uninspired or the task is particularly complicated, I look for ways to scrape together any advantage I can find (c.f., here and here and here). The concentration circuit is an important tool in this deep work toolbox." - maitani - -

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The Horticultural Roots of Joseph Breck | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/visit...

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"Recent posts by Michael Carter and a special seventy-fifth anniversary Bulletin by Timothy B. Husband introduced readers to a pivotal yet seldom-recognized figure in the formative years of The Cloisters museum and gardens—Joseph Henry Breck (1885–1933). The basic layout of the galleries and gardens of The Cloisters is primarily due to Breck's close collaboration with the architect Charles Collens, and their final plans provide coherence when the museum and gardens are seen as a whole. Sadly, Breck died suddenly in 1933 and never saw his plans realized. In addition to his formidable talents as an art historian, Breck was also a skilled artist, contributing many illustrations to the Harvard Lampoon during his undergraduate years. His watercolors and pencil sketches serve as visual evidence of his inspirations and thought processes while planning The Cloisters. While Breck's curatorial training and career are well documented, his interest in gardens is not." - maitani - -

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Turmeric and Saffron: Ash-e Haft Daneh - Persian Seven Bean Hearty Soup - Mehregan Festival Recipe - http://turmericsaffron.blogspot.de/2014...

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"Mehregan/Mehr is an ancient Iranian festival celebrating the start of the beautiful fall season. With its vibrant foliage, crisp days, and harvesting of crops, مهرگان (Mehregan) is traditionally celebrated a few days after the first day of fall (Autumnal Equinox) on the 10th day of (Mehr) (the seventh month of the Iranian calendar). In the past, festivities would last for several days. Opinions about the exact date of Mehregan may differ since the historical records show that the date has been changed a few times throughout history. The wordمهر "Mehr" in Mehregan means 'sun, kindness, love and friendship' in Persian. جشن مهرگان Jashn-e Mehregan is attributed to Mithra/Mehr, the goddess of the sun and brightness and also the angelic divinity of friendship, justice and oath dating back to the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism. One of the most valuable lessons of prophet Zartosht (Zoroaster), that is still cherished today, is his teachings of good thoughts, good words and good deeds." - maitani - -

"I chose to call it a seven bean soup but this is more than just a soup and it's more than just beans. آش هفت دانه - Ash-e haft daneh is a combination of beans, seeds, whole wheat and some vegetables. The main ingredients in the original recipe were listed as wheat, barley, rice, chickpeas, lentils, mung beans and millet. There are many different variations of this traditional ash (stew/soup). You can make this soup with lamb shank or lamb/beef stock and add vegetables such as parsley, cilantro, chives/leeks, spinach and dill. However, since this is a hearty and flavor-packed soup I didn't think adding any kind of meat was necessary. Also, it is not loaded with vegetables like ash-e reshteh and it does not have noodles either. I replaced millet and mung beans with two other kinds of beans and used tomatoes for added flavor." - maitani - -

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Could a Newly Launched Metaphorical Search Engine Really Work? | Big Think | Neurobonkers - http://bigthink.com/neurobo...

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I am not yet sure how this is supposed to work. I think I'll check it out. - maitani - -

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How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math - Issue 17: Big Bangs - Nautilus - http://nautil.us/issue...

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"I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague. So it’s a little strange how I’ve ended up now—someone who dances daily with triple integrals, Fourier transforms, and that crown jewel of mathematics, Euler’s equation. It’s hard to believe I’ve flipped from a virtually congenital math-phobe to a professor of engineering." - maitani - -

"One day, one of my students asked me how I did it—how I changed my brain. I wanted to answer Hell—with lots of difficulty! After all, I’d flunked my way through elementary, middle, and high school math and science. In fact, I didn’t start studying remedial math until I left the Army at age 26. If there were a textbook example of the potential for adult neural plasticity, I’d be Exhibit A." - maitani - -

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We are more rational than those who nudge us – Steven Poole – Aeon - http://aeon.co/magazin...

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"Humanity’s achievements and its self-perception are today at curious odds. We can put autonomous robots on Mars and genetically engineer malarial mosquitoes to be sterile, yet the news from popular psychology, neuroscience, economics and other fields is that we are not as rational as we like to assume. We are prey to a dismaying variety of hard-wired errors. We prefer winning to being right. At best, so the story goes, our faculty of reason is at constant war with an irrational darkness within. At worst, we should abandon the attempt to be rational altogether." - maitani - -

You had me at "a scientised version of original sin" :) A very interesting read. Obviously, I'd say, "econs" are poor yardsticks for human rationality. - maitani - -

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Mandolin U Srinivas at age 20- Bangalore private concert video clip - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Django Reinhardt Demonstrates His Guitar Genius in Rare Footage From the 1930s, 40s & 50s | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"In one of my favorite Woody Allen films, Sweet and Lowdown, Sean Penn plays Emmett Ray, a fictional jazz guitarist who embodies the titular qualities in equally great measure. “Already considered peerless among American jazz guitarists,” Ray admits of only one rival—Parisian gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, whom Emmett worships, obviously patterns himself after, and can’t stand to see in person without fainting dead away. Where Ray is a tremendously convincing creation of Allen and Penn, Reinhardt was very much a real musician, and was indeed the reigning king of jazz guitar from the 1930s to the 50s. Reinhardt’s incredible skill is all the more impressive considering he only had use of three fingers on his left hand due to injuries sustained in a caravan fire in 1928." - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for October 2014 http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"While the summer growing season may be over, the agricultural labours are by no means at and end, as these calendar pages for the month of October display. On the opening folio is a roundel miniature of a man scattering grain in a plowed field. Behind him are some turreted buildings and a bridge, while above, some hopeful birds are circling. On the facing folio is a small painting of an ominous-looking scorpion, for the zodiac sign Scorpio. Below, a tired man is heading home from his labours in the field, carrying a bag on his shoulders. His dog is bounding before him, and swans can be seen swimming in the river beside." - maitani - -

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Brugmansia 29.09.14

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A few weeks ago, during a storm, leaves and blossoms were perforated by hailstones. - maitani - -

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Big Talk – Futility Closet - http://www.futilitycloset.com/2014...

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"“The German long word is not a legitimate construction, but an ignoble artificiality, a sham,” wrote Mark Twain. “Nothing can be gained, no valuable amount of space saved, by jumbling the following words together on a visiting card: ‘Mrs. Smith, widow of the late Commander-in-chief of the Police Department,’ yet a German widow can persuade herself to do it, without much trouble: ‘Mrs.-late-commander-in-chief-of-the-police-department’s-widow-Smith.'” He gives this anecdote in his autobiography:" - maitani - -

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Long words are almost always ad-hoc-creations. Only two-constituent compounds have been incorporated into the lexicon (there may be a few exceptions, though I can't come up with any right now). - maitani - -

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BBC News - Nostalgia for an old-fashioned milk bottle - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"Travel back in time to a British doorstep in 1975 at, say, 7.30am. There's almost certainly a couple of foil-topped glass milk bottles there. Maybe more. Some of the tops may have been pecked by birds, although if you left a couple of plastic cups out the milkman probably popped those over the top of the bottles to protect them. Then, 94% of milk was put into glass bottles, according to Dairy Crest. By 2012, this was just 4%." - maitani - -

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"The announcement that Dairy Crest's last glass milk bottle plant is to close has prompted a flood of nostalgia for a former staple of the British street." - maitani - -

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"Missing Links" Found Between Birds and Dinosaurs - Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

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"The new pedigree of carnivorous dinosaur evolution is the most comprehensive one ever assembled, the researchers say. The findings show that birdlike features such as wings and feathers developed slowly over tens of millions of years." - maitani - -

"Birds didn't evolve in one fell swoop from their dinosaur ancestors, suggests a newly constructed dinosaur family tree showing our feathery friends evolved very gradually, at first." - maitani - -

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Eurozine - I was a slave in Puglia - Fabrizio Gatti - http://www.eurozine.com/article...

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"They number at least five thousand people, maybe seven thousand. No one has ever carried out a census. They're all foreigners; all employed as so-called "black workers": that is, subject to illegal, untaxed and underpaid work scams. They are Romanians with or without work permits, Bulgarians, Poles. And Africans: from Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Senegal, Sudan and Eritrea. Some entered the country only a few days ago, illegally on small boats. They came from Libya because they knew that in the summer they could find work here. It makes no sense to patrol the coasts if Italian businessmen decide to ignore the law. Down here, they also ignore the Constitution: the first, second and third Articles. As well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." - maitani - -

"A journey that takes one beyond the limits of human imagination: this is how Fabrizio Gatti describes his experience of a week spent undercover among immigrant labourers in Puglia in order to report on the horrors that these modern slaves endure." - maitani - -

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