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"Extensive research has shown that people tend to lead either from their head or their heart. Unless we make a conscious choice to achieve the appropriate balance, we tend to do what comes naturally and solve the problem from within our comfort zone" (from the Decision Education Foundation) Those of us on...

I was just interviewed by International Mentoring Network and as a thank you for my time they asked if there was anyone I would like to interview.  Anyone in their network, I asked ?  No, anyone in the world.  Whoever it is, they will try to make it happen.  Now that's an interesting question! Okay,...

Rick Bookstaber, author of “A Demon of Our Own Design” and Senior Policy Adviser at the SEC has hit the nail on the head as far as the bank reform goes – Breaking the Banks (via Infectious Greed): “It is not the case that the largest banks are the same as other banks, just bigger“ “The...

Please watch the Zeitgeist Addendum, and RIP: Remix Manifesto Kafka gave us The Metamorphosis.  We have the power to realize our own humility.  Being wrong is irrelevant if you learn from your mistakes and prevent systemic risk from such errors.  How can we be so content with our wisdom if we...

A few more findings on how we discover and learn (in case you don't have a dog as I assumed in the post about Discovery and Being Self Aware ).  Computational Approaches section discusses the use of artificial inteligence to help scientists make discoveries: Scientific thinking as problem solving “In...

This may be the most positive thing I've heard in a long time.  The whole article is worth reading.  Here's a teaser: "...If open courseware is about applying technology to sharing knowledge, and Peer2Peer is about social networking for teaching and learning, Bob Mendenhall, president of the online...

Should be of interest to everyone who reads this blog.  Here's the program, here's the website, and here's some more info that you can't get from either yet: Dear all: Just wanted to share with you all a couple of updates for our Fall Symposium.  We're very pleased to have two invited speakers so far:...

I was listening today to a Fresh Air interview from a couple of weeks ago on the reasons for the high cost of health care: [audio:http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2009/07/20090727_fa_01.mp3] Highly informative and thought provoking. One thing that struck me was the discussion about how we...

A new school is opening in New York for grades 6-12 that completely blows my mind. The Quest to Learn school combines games and complex systems in a way that pretty much would have made my life as a teenager. Hell, I wouldn't mind going back to high school now if I got to go here. I'll let them describe...

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A few short months ago, Hillary Clinton declared an end to the "war on terror." Now, it appears as though the "war on drugs" is ending as well, or is it? In an excellent column in today's Washington Post, Courtland Milloy explores the use of the war metaphor, and how it can be better used, if need...

On Saturday I attended a fundraiser poker tournament for non-profit organization called DEF (Decision Education Foundation).  As it's name implies, they are dedicated to helping individuals become better decision makers via the education system.  Their strategy is multifaceted, but their core goal at the...

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Gary Marcus says he'd like for there to be a course on metacognition for kids: Call it "The Human Mind: A User's Guide," aimed at, say, seventh-graders.  Instead of emphasizing facts, I'd expose students to the architecture of the mind, what it does well, and what it doesn't.  And most important, how to...

When I was an undergraduate studying macroeconomics, I came to the conclusion that it was pretty much total bullshit.  Because I was in a co-terminal masters program, I was also studying graduate level decision theory, game theory, microeconomics, behavioral economics, and dynamic systems. In comparison, it...

I have talked about some of the dangerous aspects of main stream media in the past.  Recently I was reading The Black Swan, in which the author argues that watching TV news, listening to news on the radio, and even reading newspapers actually makes you less informed (and dangerously so) than if you were to...

Here are some notes that I took at TED 2008.  I have a bunch more on each of the speakers individually which I may post as time permits.  Let me know if you want me to expand any of the notes below into a full post. Themes TED sessions have their own explicit themes, but I detected a few implicit themes...

Schools kill creativity [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY] Click here for Discussion...