Archive for March, 2006

06-03-28

Tags:book Education globalization NCLB OddsnEnds If the World Is Flat - Review by Michael J. Petrilli - Education Next - Winter 2006
 
“The sense of entitlement, the sense that because we once dominated global commerce and geopolitics … we always will, the sense that delayed gratification is a punishment worse than a […]

">If the World Is Flat
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06-03-22

Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching theory of mind video
Michael J. Black offers this QuickTime movie based on the film by Heider and Simmel (1944). He credits it to Emre Yilmaz.

">Heider & Simmel (1944) movie
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06-03-21

Tags:cross culture cross linguistic Education letter Linguistics orthography OT Paperville phonology psychology Research spelling IngentaConnect Table Of Contents: Written Language & Literacy

 

Written Language & Literacy
ISSN 1387-6732
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">From letter to sound: New perspectives on writing systems

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06-03-21

Tags:Education English Linguistics orthography Paperville spelling Eric has a couple of old papers by Steinberg against Chomsky and Halle’s argument in SPE that the current English writing system is in some sense optimal. Need to get the microfiches … fun.
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center

ERIC #:
ED053596

Title:
Would an Orthography […]

">English the optimal orthography? Old papers

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06-03-17

Tags:Computing plugin software tagging Wordpress
Installed Neato : Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 today. Worked out of box. Had to figure out where to put the tags but that’s ok. I love the AJAX "add tag" box (you have to log on as an author to see them at the bottom of each […]

">Neato : Ultimate Tag Warrior 3
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06-03-17

Tags:brain fMRI Linguistics neuroscience Paperville psychology reasoning Research syllogism Via NeuroDude, and see reference at CiteULike: fMRI Evidence for a Three-Stage Model of Deductive Reasoning

J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Mar;18(3):320-34.
Related Articles, Links

FMRI evidence for a three-stage model of deductive reasoning.
Fangmeier T, Knauff […]

">CiteULike: fMRI Evidence for a Three-Stage Model of Deductive Reasoning

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06-03-15

Tags:CogSci computational linguistics Folk psychology Linguistics Profiles psychology Research text corpus theory of mind Seems to be an interesting project/resource, but the 2002 CogSci paper raised many questions. 
Commonsense Psychology Resource Page by Andrew Gordon

In an effort to better understand the relationship between language and representation, we have authored […]

">Andrew Gordon: Commonsense Psychology and Language

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06-03-15

Tags:History OddsnEnds writing system
Ides of March, 2050 years ago, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death at the senate. Apparently, the weapon had something to do with writing, according to Suzanne E. McCarthy.

Abecedaria
 

Saturday, December 24, 2005
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">Julius Caesar Day

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06-03-15

Tags:History Paperville probability statistics I came across E. T. Jaynes‘ unfinished manuscript in 2001, completely be accident while surfing online (not so much googling back then; you click from one link to the next, never knowing what to pop up; those days are long gone). The book finally was published in 2003, albeit […]

">E. T. Jaynes: Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
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06-03-14

Tags:History OddsnEnds psychology What psychologists used to do 70 yeras ago (via Modern Mechanix):

Modern Mechanix » Women and Smokers Have Steadier Nerves, Device Proves

Women and Smokers Have Steadier Nerves, Device Proves
Source: Modern Mechanix 6-1935
WOMEN are better than men when it comes to a steady hand and certainty of aim, […]

">Modern Mechanix » Women and Smokers Have Steadier Nerves, Device Proves

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06-03-13

Tags:Chinese counterfactual Linguistics psychology Research syntax It’s been reported that Google will sell on-line access to books, even by the page. In order to see whether it will be useful, I tried to search "Chinese Counterfactual". The keywords are in reference to Bloom-Au debate on whether Chinese has linguistic markings of […]

">counterfactual chinese - Google Book Search
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06-03-12

Tags:Education evolution intelligent design OddsnEnds Paperville psychology Research Teaching The following article is unfortunately published on a journal that is not open-access. Well, not exactly the fault of the journal or its editors. It’s the evil publisher…

ScienceDirect - Trends in Cognitive Sciences : The Intelligent Design controversy: lessons […]

">The Intelligent Design controversy: lessons from psychology and education

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06-03-10

Tags:cognition History Profiles psychology Research Teaching Independent, The (London): Obituary: Peter Wason

Obituary: Peter Wason

Independent, The (London),  Apr 22, 2003  by Jonathan St B.T. Evans
PETER WASON was one of the most creative and influential British psychologists of the post-war era.
He challenged the orthodox view of […]

">Peter Wason

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