by Minter Dial | Aug 2, 2009 | Education
Here is a 10-minute video that had me giggling, at first, then laughing blissfully out loud. This video is from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan, where scientists have managed to train a chimpanzee named AI (Artificial Intelligence?) to...
by Minter Dial | Jul 30, 2009 | Education
Via Sciences Humaines, a very insightful and thorough French magazine, I read [this article in the aug-sept 2009 issue] about how the video game, Tetris, has been identified as helping trauma victims recover. A study* by scientists at the University of Oxford...
by Minter Dial | Jul 7, 2009 | Education
Tomorrow will be a beautiful day…especially if you live in the United States (i.e. you write the date MM/DD/YY). At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM in the morning (of 8th of July), the time and date will read: 04:05:06 07/08/09 It’s a beautiful...
by Minter Dial | Apr 29, 2009 | Education
Or how old is your brain? Here’s a little game that will drive you nuts, especially if you have a competitive streak in you. The site instructions are in Japanese, so before clicking on this link, read below! Touch ‘start’ Wait for 3, 2, 1. Memorize...
by Minter Dial | Mar 24, 2009 | Education
DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . . . if you live in the United States (i.e. you write the date MM/DD/YY), at five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be: 04:05:06 07/08/09 It’s a beautiful thing. This will not happen...
by Minter Dial | Oct 26, 2008 | Education
The Wisdom of Winnowing Words? I have often read, with keen interest, about the addition of new words to a language, typically to French and English where I can gauge the novelty, meaning and importance of the word(s) in question. Last week, however, I came across a...
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