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POPSGoogle generation has no need for rote learning He suggests that the brains of young people today work differently from those of their parents. He argues that digital immersion, in which children may be texting while surfing the internet and listening to their MP3 player, can help them to develop critical thinking skills. on the other hand: a core level of knowledge was essential: “It’s important that children learn facts. If you have no store of knowledge in your head to draw from, you cannot easily engage in discussions or make informed decisions.” Michael Gove, the Shadow Schools Secretary, has recently criticised “the move away from fact-based learning”, arguing that “knowledge, intellectual capital, is what makes educational progress possible”. We are amidst new era, and new challenges. i do think that the way people feel and think today cannot be directly deduced from past generation and conceptions. How to implement the changes, how to direct them, is the most interesting riddle.
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POPSHumble mouse turns 40 and loses its touch "The mouse now faces unprecedented competition. Laptops which make no use of a mouse are an increasingly popular alternative to desktop computers for workers on the move. Apple's popular iPhone and Nintendo's Wii have shown the potential for touchscreens and movement sensors. HP is pushing a mouse-less TouchSmart PC. Microsoft has invested millions of dollars in a coffee table-shaped 'Surface' computer which responds to natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects." And still it has done its job in making computers more accessible... happy birthday :-)
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POPSAntarctic peninsula marine life The first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals around the South Orkney islands off the tip of the Antarctic peninsula has revealed a region rich in biodiversity, with more species than the Galapagos
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POPSCars Have Personality... For example, cars scoring high in the so-called power traits had horizontally elongated hoods, pronounced lower car bodies relative to the windshields and more angular headlights that seemed to suggest a frown. Conversely, cars on the other end of the power scale -- that is, those perceived as childlike, submissive, female and friendly -- had headlights with their upper edge relatively close to the midline and had an upward shift of the car's lateral-most points. ("In this way, the car gives us a big smile," Slice said.)
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POPSThe new, free speech, gatekeepers "Given their clashing and sometimes self-contradictory missions — to obey local laws, repressive or not, and to ensure that information knows no bounds; to do no evil and to be everywhere in a sometimes evil world — Wong and her colleagues at Google seem to be working impressively to put the company’s long-term commitment to free expression above its short-term financial interests. But they won’t be at Google forever, and if history is any guide, they may eventually be replaced with lawyers who are more concerned about corporate profits than about free expression. “We’re at the dawn of a new technology,” Walker told me, referring not simply to Google but also to the many different ways we now interact online. “And when people try to come up with the best metaphors to describe it, all the metaphors run out. We’ve built this spaceship, but we really don’t know where it will take us.”
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POPSSexual strategies Breaking it down to the genes and fertility percentages does create a nice twist sometimes to the world of sex, and being a human. ;-)
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POPSVanishing Africa Tribal Portraits: Vintage & Contemporary Photographs from the African Continent is an exhibition and sale of over 200 rare images dating from 1865 to the present day, some of which have not been on the open market for decades.
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POPSShould Online identity remain anonymous? I think that this is a realy bad case of a disturbed human. while the net can be the vehicle it certainly is not the source of this behaviour. second unrelated thing is that in this days of the Web i really think we ought to reconsider and redefine what is anonymity?
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POPSWhales trapped in Ice A real sense of tragedy. What is interesting is while feeling for these whales, we know that they are to die, so one cannot condemn the hunters, and yet..
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POPS"Rats are more honest." "he started training giant pouched rats - an African species known for its large size, sunny disposition, and ultra-keen nostrils - to detect the faintest whiff of TNT and other explosives. Because the rats are too light to trigger the explosive, they are not harmed in the exercise; they simply signal the location of the explosive to a handler, who has it defused and removed."
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POPSGod enough And maybe the most interesting part is the follow: "If we can't transform our secular humanist, consumerist worldview into one in which we have this sense of responsibility, awe and wonder for the planet and all life, then we can't invent a global ethic. Yet we need it to create a transnational, mythic structure to sustain the global civilization that's emerging." very interesting.
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POPSThe brain and us... Now that we know a basis that affects, we can start relating to it. So i welcome these discoveries not as finite, but as a beginning...
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POPSCyberchondria The researchers said that Web searchers’ propensity to jump to awful conclusions was basic human behavior that has been noted by research scientists for decades.
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POPSGift recycle A nice initiative to answer several needs, economic, green, communication.
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POPSA ray of fight. "If the ray gun works, it will have joined the self-driving car in the ranks of fulfilled sci-fi." and maybe other things as well from the Sci-Fi will come true, like space travel, life time extension, different stage for humanity... and so on.
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