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In the US we currently have the situation that many politicians' only career has been politics. Examples: a) Joe Biden was a politician for ~50 years. I would submit that he was trapped in a...
22 February 2025 9,670 0 View
One example within Western science: Go back and forth between a reductionist view and a synthesis view. This way, one can elicit detailed evidence while not losing sight of its contextual...
07 January 2025 6,002 1 View
Each of our five senses are limited. Other animals can sense things that we cannot. We can construct devices that we employ to explore the world beyond our what our physical limitations can...
20 February 2024 523 13 View
From my observations, there appear to be three principal avenues to engender critical thinking in education K-12: debate; mathematics, and science. For some students, all three avenues are...
05 February 2021 9,969 7 View
Recently, I have read two articles that are trying to figure out why some students do well in their education, while others do not. The common factors that are considered include: a)...
15 June 2020 2,071 4 View
It is well-established that a person having self-confidence and grit will tend to have educational success, as well as long-term success in life. It has also been shown by Ruben O. Martinez and...
22 March 2019 1,727 11 View
There are many abuses by bad actors on the internet. They may be: hackers, fake news purveyors, exploiters of Big Data, cyber warriors, and designers of software intended to addict its users. The...
01 March 2019 3,203 3 View
Right now harm is being done to many people. The harm can be calculated in dollars and in human suffering and death. The proportionate harm done by an individual company can be assessed in terms...
26 August 2018 1,778 11 View
When the tragic mass shooting in Parkland, Florida took place, the world was astounded by the articulate students who survived this attack. They all had been students in debate through much of...
08 August 2018 7,779 6 View
In the USA, the voting results in most presidential elections in recent years have always been nearly equally divided between the two opposite sides. As a result, the election result is determined...
12 February 2018 1,826 3 View
It is commonly stated that the prefrontal cortex typically is not fully functional until as late as age 24. If true, this must be an average figure. If one considers young children that, due to...
25 May 2017 8,129 10 View
Generally speaking in the USA, from the time a child is a baby, it is curious about all the world around them; they are continuously asking "why?". But by the time a child finishes elementary...
24 April 2017 4,741 91 View
In statistical pattern recognition, where we can deal, in principle, with high dimensional feature spaces, we have encountered "The Curse of Dimensionality." Basically, this describes the...
26 February 2017 1,637 2 View
Professionals, such as medical doctors are not evaluated in order to practice medicine. Why should experienced teachers, who are also professionals, be evaluated? Today, apparently, many are...
09 January 2017 8,829 82 View
The Khan Academy and Teaching Textbooks are two examples that I know of in which the student is taught math and/or science individually, at her/his own pace via a computer. And as Sal Khan says,...
03 November 2016 260 40 View
IFTRAN is a precompiler that produces FORTRAN code. It was developed in the 1970's.
24 April 2016 7,945 2 View
Experiments on rats has yielded an optimal dosage to treat induced cerebellar ataxia. But can this dosage be scaled up to humans for this purpose?
04 September 2014 4,165 3 View
When people learn, new neural connections and new neurons are produced.
22 May 2014 4,968 10 View
Right now and in the foreseeable future, civilization and even our physical survival is being threatened by extreme, erratic and shifting weather patterns. These in turn are caused by the Earth’s...
01 April 2014 3,681 8 View
The use of audio recordings are indispensable in teaching music and EFL (English as a Foreign Language). But in other subjects not commonly associated with aural or oral skills, perhaps only...
03 February 2014 9,715 11 View
The grave global problems that face civilization now threaten to worsen in the future (e.g., global warming, water shortages, overpopulation, top soil depletion, renewable energy sources, income...
18 January 2014 4,253 37 View
In the USA (and in the UK) enormous advancements in science and technology took place in physics, applied mathematics, computer science, electronics, radar, infrared, prosthetics and organ...
29 September 2013 3,927 33 View
In the past, atrophy of brain cells was considered untreatable, they could not be regenerated. But with epigenetics, perhaps the gene expression for growth of new brain cells can be activated....
07 July 2013 9,430 11 View
Some neuroscientists claim that about 15% of society are innovators - people who are not satisfied with the status quo. The other 85% need to be conformists in order that society maintains...
06 November 2012 135 34 View
Three time scales in which Voluntary Mental Activity -> Changes in Brain for optimizing cognitive tasks. 1. Short period: 10-15 minutes, Priming (e.g., before math class begins, preliminary...
03 January 2012 9,392 7 View
Most Western science research does not address this question, chiefly because mysticism is not included within the common realm of thought in the West. Perhaps there is someone within the...
07 December 2011 8,614 13 View
Our American educational system is a disaster for most students. Many graduate or drop out of school, feeling little sense of self-realization. This is because traditional schooling typically...
01 January 1970 6,646 15 View
Big Data, targeted advertising, medical diagnosis systems, etc. use methods of automatically generating decision trees by recursively searching for criteria that can be used to incrementally...
01 January 1970 1,996 2 View
Teachers and educators often reference old works by philosophers, psychologists, and social scientists to support their theories and practices in education. But, almost never do I see references...
01 January 1970 5,251 28 View
In recent years, many research papers in neuroscience have verified that there are two anti-correlated circuit networks in the brain: one network is appropriate for an art-oriented way of...
01 January 1970 8,210 0 View
