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"Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age."

"Data visualization is a running theme of visual literacy here, and Manuel Lima has been one of its biggest advocates since 2005 when, shortly after graduating from the Parson School of Design, he launched VisualComplexity - an ambitious portal for the visualization of complex networks across a multitude of disciplines, from biology to history to the social web."

"Teaching people 'how to' write an essay in Word, or 'how to' use shortcuts in their browser, or 'how to' use hashtags in Twitter is the same as giving them fish, rather than teaching them how to fish."

"Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. In addition to the content of our course-which ranged across cognitive psychology, neuroscience, management theory, literature and the arts, and the various fields that compose science-and-technology studies-'This Is Your Brain on the Internet' was intended to model a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention. More than anything, it courted failure. Unlearning."

Short site with some quick info on learning styles, multiple intelligence, background to the brain, etc

What happened in the meeting? A closing check

Ng and how AI will be the new human

Great set of 60 sec videos

The human condition in relation to learning and culture. Interesting post which is a post of a symposium conversation.

The (non) importance of academic experience to getting a job at Google.