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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...
03 March 2019 1,195 5 View
During the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union, the common man was afforded many opportunities (e.g., low-interest student loans and increased funding of university programs in science,...
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There are various standardized tests. For example, the TOEFL for English proficiency, or the SAT for admission to university. What are they good for? What are they not good for? How accurate are...
01 January 2018 8,251 9 View
There are novel and valid views of what makes for students' success in school and later in life. One of these views is that a student should believe in himself/herself and the student should have...
10 October 2017 4,033 1 View
In various ways we have seen the impact of attitudes of "us" versus "them." It may exist in various forms: On a personal level - racism, bias, snobbery, bullying, ... ; On a group level -...
03 March 2017 9,699 14 View
To achieve breakthroughs and innovations in applied, practical problems often requires inputs from individuals who are well-qualified in fields outside of the technical domain of the subject...
11 November 2016 10,113 3 View
In my adolescence, I did my best in subjects that, at first I did not do as well I had expected - I was shocked!. Once, I understood what I was doing wrong, I worked extra hard and, not only...
01 January 2016 8,690 6 View
When people learn, new neural connections and new neurons are produced.
05 May 2014 3,375 11 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...
09 September 2013 5,721 35 View
I think quality is dropping. For example, in the USA, it was proported that if you found a physician that was Board Certified, you could be confident that he was competent and up to date with the...
11 November 2012 3,324 4 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...
11 November 2012 9,888 35 View
Over the past two decades or more, much has been learned about the PFC, but many people do not seem to have incorporated this new knowledge into their philosophy of human life.
08 August 2012 9,326 2 View
Studies, such as by Godel, on incompleteness imply all conceptual systems, including logic and mathematics, and, by extension, the sciences, are incomplete.
05 May 2012 2,700 27 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...
01 January 2012 7,016 7 View
I am trying to learn about the neural modulators effects on states of mind, especially the two extremes: a focus on deductive logic vs. a totally passive experiential focus, as in Martin Buber's...
12 December 2011 8,631 0 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...
12 December 2011 9,395 13 View
Most of what I have seen regarding the reform of Education is being attempted by educators, exclusively. In order to establish robust reforms, a systemic approach is needed. Inputs and...
01 January 1970 4,813 10 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 4,571 29 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...
01 January 1970 3,031 2 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 1,146 2 View
