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Word aversion: Hate moist? Slacks? Crevice? Why do people hate words? - Slate Magazine - 39 views

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shared by Cori Cummings on 02 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • “Afterwards she said she didn’t mind fu*k, but hated—wait for it—moist. Said it made her a little physically ill. Then I went on to Jackson, read there, and my sister Jane was in the audience—and had the same reaction. To moist.”
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 09 Apr 13
       
      I think the reason why so many people react so much to the word moist is because it's a visual word. The word f**k or any other bad word usually have that same vividly visual affect on people. 
  • “The word meal makes me wince. Doubly so when paired with hot.”
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 09 Apr 13
       
      When paired up with an adjective a the word meal can become a lot easier to visualize, thus creating an individual to crave this "meal". When we hear words we think of an image to fit with what the other person is telling us. For example, "hot meal" we visualize a nice warm meal, which is very comforting and may cause us to 'wince' because we long for that comfort of this type of meal.
Cori Cummings

Stephen Wolfram Blog : Latest Perspectives on the Computation Age - 1 views

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shared by Cori Cummings on 14 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • within a few decades we’re going to find that there’s more new technology being created by those methods, than by all existing traditional engineering methods put together
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 20 Nov 12
       
      Completely agree with this!!
  • everything that’s happened with computers over the past 50 years, we haven’t seen anything yet.
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 20 Nov 12
       
      This is only the beginning with technology in computers. It hasn't been long since they've been invented and they are advancing immensely each year! Can't wait to see what they're like a decade from now.
  • exists. Mathematica is the language that Wolfram|Alpha is implemented in. And
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  • the point is that in Mathematica, doing something like solving a differential equation is just one command.
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 20 Nov 12
       
      !
  • Because most questions require one not just to have the data, but to compute some specific answer from it.
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 20 Nov 12
       
      Just because a source gives you information doesn't necessarily means it gave you the answer to the question you were looking for. You must assume things using the information to get the answer. Or hope that the source you use gives you the direct answer, which is not so likely.
  • everything that’s happened with computers over the past 50 years, we haven’t seen anything yet.
Cori Cummings

Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web), cleaned up HTML version - Stop ... - 89 views

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shared by Cori Cummings on 30 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • It’s difficult to generalize about a population this big, but household incomes are less than half of what they are just a mile away, unemployment is significantly higher
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 02 Nov 12
       
      I think most Americans have a negative stereotype towards people who live in Harlem because of the area's characteristics.
  • When we turn school into more than just a finishing school for a factory job, we enable a new generation to achieve things that we were ill-prepared for.
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 02 Nov 12
       
      This is very true. Most parents want this for their kids. They force their child to undergo their dreams, instead of their child following their own dreams. And that's why this generation hasn't really contributed in anything too revolutionary yet. Because they are put into a mindset where everyone succeeds and becomes successful in the same way. Graduating highschool and then graduating college. After that you get a good job, get married and buy a house. If all kids weren't subjected to this type of mindset maybe a child would create something new, something different for our generation.
  • And when we give students the desire to make things, even choices, we create a world filled with makers.
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  • When we teach a child to love to learn, the amount of learning will become limitless.
  • the only good reason to teach trig and calculus in high school is to encourage kids to become engineers and scientists.
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 02 Nov 12
       
      That's not a very good reason. Math should honestly stop by the time a student is in 8th grade, by then they should be able to realize weather they enjoy it enough where they would see themselves using it in a future job. If they do then they should take math in highschool, but if they don't it's a waste of time and students shouldn't be obliged to take it. If students must take a math class they should take a math class with material in it that they will actually need. CONSUMER MATH! Why do we barely touch on it when it's the thing we will be using so much when we are adults??
  • A primary output of school should be to produce citizens who often choose the rational path. And that’s going to happen only if we’ve created enough situations for them to practice in.
  • It’s a place where middle school football coaches have their players do push-ups until they faint, but math teachers are scolded for giving too much homework.
Amy Burvall

Progress on TIB Film - 88 views

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started by Amy Burvall on 20 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
  • Cori Cummings
    #21 Cori Cummings on 21 Sep 12
     
    I finished choosing my belief.and making my storyboard. I also I filmed some things for my video. My plan is to get the rest of my video filmed, get the music, edit the video, and upload it on youtube by oct. 1st.
Cori Cummings

Sum of the Parts? How Our Brains See Men as People and Women as Body Parts | Neuroscien... - 5 views

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shared by Cori Cummings on 29 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • “The subjects in the study’s images were everyday, ordinary men and women … the fact that people are looking at ordinary men and women and remembering women’s body parts better than their entire bodies was very interesting.”
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 06 Sep 12
       
      I think people remember other people by different body parts and how their shaped. Not just their faces.
  • Women’s sexual body parts were more easily recognized when presented in isolation than when they were presented in the context of their entire bodies. But men’s sexual body parts were recognized better when presented in the context of their entire bodies than they were in isolation.
Cori Cummings

Moonwalking with Einstein: How to Hack Your Memory | Brain Pickings - 1 views

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shared by Cori Cummings on 29 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Why do we remember, and how? Is there a finite capacity to our memory reservoir?
  • Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable.
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