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“Attention is the holy grail,” Mr. Strayer says. - The in-depth article covers the many subtle ways in which our brain and our behavior changes once we remove the constant access to computers.
For creativity you need your mind to wander,” Dr. Schooler says, “but you also need to be able to notice that you’re mind wandering and catch the idea when you have it. If Archimedes had come up with a solution in the bathtub but didn’t notice he’d had the idea, what good would it have done him?
Mind wandering while trying to achieve a task activates various parts of the brain allowing you to, in essence, have multi-core processing.
Where does insight come from and what does it do in our brains? According to new research from scientists at the University of British Columbia, “Eureka!” moments may in fact be a function of how our frontal cortex neurons switch from encoding a familiar idea to creating a brand new idea that could only be figured out through trial and error.
Granted, thinking statistically is tricky. We like to construct simple cause-and-effect stories to explain the world as we experience it. “You need to train in this way of thinking. It’s not easy,” says John Allen Paulos, a Temple University mathematician.
That’s precisely the point. We often say, rightly, that literacy is crucial to public life: If you can’t write, you can’t think. The same is now true in math. Statistics is the new grammar.
Clive Thompson on Why We Should Learn the Language of Data in Wired Magazine
The TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment and Design) brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes.) Each conference is structured around an overarching idea. A TED Remix is a new juxtaposition of talks around a specific theme.
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Hans Rosling: wiki, twitter, web
Chris Jordan: wiki, web
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Peter Donnelly: wiki
Sebastian Wernicke: web
Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers: An American Self-portrait
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