Sunday, 25 May 2008

Points of Interest 25. May, 2008

1. Interesting and humorous, unfortunately I'm light years from any degree:
Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?

2. About the mascot of the Nara 1300th-anniversary. It's about the capital move from Fujiwara to Nara. The second part with the poem is interesting. It shows the complexity of Japanese poems: Sento out!

3. Interesting facts about the Ainu language: Ainu, Utari, Ainu

4. The powerless will always be powerless: Lacking power diminishes cognitive function

5. Reason versus emotion: The MRI of morality?

6. Be careful with the interpretation of MRIs: MRI - the new phrenology

7. Parents' influence on kids' behavior: Not much

8. What Chutes and Ladders has to do with learning Math

9. Can we learn from errors? What if we're running a nuclear power plant?

10. Doing algebra - it's the little things that count

11. Space and Syntax

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