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Art to the aid of technology
Our brains are incredibly agile machines, and it is hard to think of anything they do more efficiently
than recognize faces. Just hours after birth, the eyes of newborns are drawn to facelike patterns.
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Art to the aid of technology
Our brains are incredibly agile machines, and it is hard to think of anything they do more efficiently
than recognize faces. Just hours after birth, the eyes of newborns are drawn to facelike patterns.
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Education Philosophy
The lives of children underwent a drastic change during the 1800s in
the United States. Previously,
children from both rural and urban families were expected to participate in everyday labour due to
the bulk of manual hard working.
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Education Philosophy
The lives of children underwent a drastic change during the 1800s in
the United States. Previously,
children from both rural and urban families were expected to participate in everyday labour due to
the bulk of manual hard working.
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Crisis! freshwater
Waters run away in tremendous wildfires in recent years. The economic actors had all taken their
share reasonably enough: they just did not consider the needs of the natural environment, which
suffered greatly when its inadequate supply was reduced to critical levels by drought.
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Crisis! freshwater
Waters run away in tremendous wildfires in recent years. The economic actors had all taken their
share reasonably enough: they just did not consider the needs of the natural environment, which
suffered greatly when its inadequate supply was reduced to critical levels by drought.
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Reclaiming the future of aral sea
Yet four of the five former
Soviet republics in the Aral Sea basin (Kazakhstan is the exception) intend to expand irrigation,
mainly to feed growing populations. Switching to less water-intensive crops, such as replacing
cotton with winter wheat, could help, but the two primary irrigating nations, Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan, intend to keep cotton to earn foreign currency.
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Reclaiming the future of aral sea
Yet four of the five former
Soviet republics in the Aral Sea basin (Kazakhstan is the exception) intend to expand irrigation,
mainly to feed growing populations. Switching to less water-intensive crops, such as replacing
cotton with winter wheat, could help, but the two primary irrigating nations, Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan, intend to keep cotton to earn foreign currency.
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📋New ways of teaching history
When provided with merely a textbook as a supplemental learning tool, test results have
revealed that most students fail to pinpoint the significance of historical events and individuals.
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📋New ways of teaching history
When provided with merely a textbook as a supplemental learning tool, test results have
revealed that most students fail to pinpoint the significance of historical events and individuals.
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🦜Australian parrots and their adaptation to habitat change
New conditions also sometimes favour an incoming species over one that originally inhabited the
area. For example, after farmers cleared large areas of forest on Kangaroo Island off the coast of
South Australia, the island was colonised by galahs. They were soon going down holes and
destroying black cockatoo eggs to take the hole for their own use. Their success
precipitated a partial collapse in the black cockatoo population when they later lost the struggle for
scarce nesting hollows.
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🦜Australian parrots and their adaptation to habitat change
New conditions also sometimes favour an incoming species over one that originally inhabited the
area. For example, after farmers cleared large areas of forest on Kangaroo Island off the coast of
South Australia, the island was colonised by galahs. They were soon going down holes and
destroying black cockatoo eggs to take the hole for their own use. Their success
precipitated a partial collapse in the black cockatoo population when they later lost the struggle for
scarce nesting hollows.
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🎧🎼🎸Mind Music🎤🎺🪗
Drs Stewart and Halper are now working together to recruit survey participants for a study
looking at whether people at different stages of life experience earworms differently. 'You can argue
that older people might get them more often because they know more songs,' Dr Halpern says. 'But
the few responses we have so far indicate that they have earworms less often. It could be that they
don't play music as often as younger people do.
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🎧🎼🎸Mind Music🎤🎺🪗
Drs Stewart and Halper are now working together to recruit survey participants for a study
looking at whether people at different stages of life experience earworms differently. 'You can argue
that older people might get them more often because they know more songs,' Dr Halpern says. 'But
the few responses we have so far indicate that they have earworms less often. It could be that they
don't play music as often as younger people do.
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🌃Light pollution
Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward
and upward into the sky, where it’s not wanted, instead of focusing it downward, where it is.
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🌃Light pollution
Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward
and upward into the sky, where it’s not wanted, instead of focusing it downward, where it is.
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🆕New ways of teaching history
Some academic historians hold a different view on the use of technology in teaching
history. One reason they hold is that not all facts can be recorded by film or videos and literature is
relatively feasible in this case. Another challenge they have to be faced with is the painful process of
learning a new technology like the making of PowerPoint and the editing of audio and video clips
which is also reasonable especially to some elderly historians.
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🆕New ways of teaching history
Some academic historians hold a different view on the use of technology in teaching
history. One reason they hold is that not all facts can be recorded by film or videos and literature is
relatively feasible in this case. Another challenge they have to be faced with is the painful process of
learning a new technology like the making of PowerPoint and the editing of audio and video clips
which is also reasonable especially to some elderly historians.
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🌱The success of cellulose
Not too long ago many investors made the bet that renewable fuels from bio-mass would be the
next big thing in energy. Converting corn, sugarcane, and soybeans into ethanol or diesel-type fuels
lessens our nation’s dependence on oil imports while cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
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🌱The success of cellulose
Not too long ago many investors made the bet that renewable fuels from bio-mass would be the
next big thing in energy. Converting corn, sugarcane, and soybeans into ethanol or diesel-type fuels
lessens our nation’s dependence on oil imports while cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
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☕️THE STORY OF COFFEE
To make sure they dry
evenly, the beans need to be raked many times during this drying time. Two weeks later the sun
dried beans, now called parchment, are scooped up, bagged and taken to be milled. Huge milling
machines then remove the parchment and silver skin, which renders a green bean suitable for
roasting. The green beans are roasted according to the customers’ specifications and, after cooling,
the beans are then packaged and mailed to customers.
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☕️THE STORY OF COFFEE
To make sure they dry
evenly, the beans need to be raked many times during this drying time. Two weeks later the sun
dried beans, now called parchment, are scooped up, bagged and taken to be milled. Huge milling
machines then remove the parchment and silver skin, which renders a green bean suitable for
roasting. The green beans are roasted according to the customers’ specifications and, after cooling,
the beans are then packaged and mailed to customers.
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🗺Revolutions in Mapping
Simplified civilian versions
of the receivers are available for a few hundred dollars and they are also the heart of
electronic map displays available in some cars. Cartography is pressing on to cosmic
frontiers, but its objective is, and always has been, to communicate a sense of ‘here’ in
relation to ‘there’, however far away ‘there’ may be.
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🗺Revolutions in Mapping
Simplified civilian versions
of the receivers are available for a few hundred dollars and they are also the heart of
electronic map displays available in some cars. Cartography is pressing on to cosmic
frontiers, but its objective is, and always has been, to communicate a sense of ‘here’ in
relation to ‘there’, however far away ‘there’ may be.
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🤖👼Toddlers Bond With Robot
Nowadays robots can
perform a variety of functions that were thought to be incident to people only - in short time we’ll
have electronic baby-sitters and peer-robots in every kindergarten," said Ishiguro, who was not
involved with the study but has collaborated with its authors on other projects.
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🤖👼Toddlers Bond With Robot
Nowadays robots can
perform a variety of functions that were thought to be incident to people only - in short time we’ll
have electronic baby-sitters and peer-robots in every kindergarten," said Ishiguro, who was not
involved with the study but has collaborated with its authors on other projects.
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🗺How do we find our way?
Route following is more precise than guidance or path integration, but
if you forget the details and take a wrong turn, the only way to recover is to backtrack until you reach
a familiar spot, because you do not know the general direction or have a reference landmark for your
goal.
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🗺How do we find our way?
Route following is more precise than guidance or path integration, but
if you forget the details and take a wrong turn, the only way to recover is to backtrack until you reach
a familiar spot, because you do not know the general direction or have a reference landmark for your
goal.
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Wood: a valuable resource in New Zealand’s
economy
Early explores recognised the suitability of the tall, straight trunks of the kauri for constructing sailing
vessels. The kauri is a species of coniferous tree found only in small areas of the southern
hemisphere. So from the early 1800s, huge amounts of this type of wood were sold to Australia and
the UK for that purpose.
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Wood: a valuable resource in New Zealand’s
economy
Early explores recognised the suitability of the tall, straight trunks of the kauri for constructing sailing
vessels. The kauri is a species of coniferous tree found only in small areas of the southern
hemisphere. So from the early 1800s, huge amounts of this type of wood were sold to Australia and
the UK for that purpose.
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Should space be explored by robots or by
humans?
Many operations originally designed to be performed under completely
automatic control can be performed more efficiently by astronauts, perhaps helped by their 'cobots'.
The human-machine relationship must evolve towards a closer collaboration
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Should space be explored by robots or by
humans?
Many operations originally designed to be performed under completely
automatic control can be performed more efficiently by astronauts, perhaps helped by their 'cobots'.
The human-machine relationship must evolve towards a closer collaboration
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🤵♂Becoming an Expert
Expertise is commitment coupled with creativity. Specifically, it is the commitment of time,
energy, and resource to a relatively narrow field of study and the creative energy necessary
to generate new knowledge in that field. It takes a considerable amount of time and regular
exposure to a large number of cases to become an expert.
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🤵♂Becoming an Expert
Expertise is commitment coupled with creativity. Specifically, it is the commitment of time,
energy, and resource to a relatively narrow field of study and the creative energy necessary
to generate new knowledge in that field. It takes a considerable amount of time and regular
exposure to a large number of cases to become an expert.
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👼Children's comprehension
Television has long been the predominant medium that advertisers have chosen for marketing
products to children. It is estimated that the average child sees more than 40.000 television
commercials a year, most of which are 15 to 30 seconds in length.
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👼Children's comprehension
Television has long been the predominant medium that advertisers have chosen for marketing
products to children. It is estimated that the average child sees more than 40.000 television
commercials a year, most of which are 15 to 30 seconds in length.
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💊💉🧑⚕Traditional Maori medicines
Illness was often seen as spiritually based. Maori saw themselves as guardians of the earth, and the
focus of their existence was to remain at one with the natural and supernatural world. Rather than a
medical problem, sickness was often viewed as a symptom of disharmony with natures.
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💊💉🧑⚕Traditional Maori medicines
Illness was often seen as spiritually based. Maori saw themselves as guardians of the earth, and the
focus of their existence was to remain at one with the natural and supernatural world. Rather than a
medical problem, sickness was often viewed as a symptom of disharmony with natures.
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🌐The dark side of the technological boom
Psychologist Craig Brod says
people become accustomed to the patterns set by electronic tools - accelerated time and yes/no
logic - and internalize these patterns. When they leave the office or go home, Brod says, they need
complete isolation to recover from the effects of the technology.
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🌐The dark side of the technological boom
Psychologist Craig Brod says
people become accustomed to the patterns set by electronic tools - accelerated time and yes/no
logic - and internalize these patterns. When they leave the office or go home, Brod says, they need
complete isolation to recover from the effects of the technology.
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🥫The Can – A Brief History Lesson
Beverage cans made from aluminum were first introduced in 1965. This was an exciting
innovation for the packaging industry because the aluminum can was made with only two pieces - a
body and an end. This made production easier.
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🥫The Can – A Brief History Lesson
Beverage cans made from aluminum were first introduced in 1965. This was an exciting
innovation for the packaging industry because the aluminum can was made with only two pieces - a
body and an end. This made production easier.
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