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Fai’s scientific sharing with lab members

Sir Ken Robinson – The Element

Another great talk by Sir Ken Robinson.

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Just watched this over lunch. A very good speech.

U.S. Biggest Budget Cuts in History

It has always been my role to tell you the reality and teach you how to fish, and not giving you a fish, nor the bogus “American Dream” or things-will-somehow-get-better hope. I have been saying for a while that the economy is going to be much worse and now the really hard time is going […]

Horizon: Science Under Attack

A nice documentary by Paul Nurse, a Nobel laureates in 2001 for his work on cell cycle, on public skepticism on scientific findings. There are a number of interesting articles with the opposite view, some even from the people who were interviewed in the documentary. How BBC warmists abuse the science In paricluar, James Delingpole […]

Zheng Lab – Bad Project (Lady Gaga parody)

Um… Purdue needs to be more creative.

2011-01-15 New articles we read this week.

Neuroscience Kinkhabwala A, Riley M, Koyama M, Monen J, Satou C, Kimura Y, Higashijima SI, Fetcho J. A structural and functional ground plan for neurons in the hindbrain of zebrafish. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21199947. Koyama M, Kinkhabwala A, Satou C, Higashijima SI, […]

From an insightful article about kids and eduation

I have just received this article, “How America Messed Up Its Kids… And How We Can Fix Them“, from a fellow professor in the department. Here is an except of it: Teenager: “Please, Mom and Dad, just let me do this, and I promise that I will take full responsibility for it.” Parent: “Do you […]

What a beautiful and flawless study

Upper D. The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block”. J Appl Behav Anal. 1974 Fall;7(3):497. PubMed PMID: 16795475; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1311997. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/pdf/jaba00061-0143a.pdf

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us